Preparing and Using a Card Scraper on Gun Stocks 

In examining actual antique flintlock gun stocks, I notice that most show faint fine marks of scraping rather than simply filing & sanding. With curly maple, especially, one can feel with the fingers a ripple along the stock as each curl is hit, caused by the scraper cutting deeper into the softer grain and then alternating with the harder grain. Filing & sanding doesn't give this. Incidentally, I read in the Foxfire journal (#6?) series, the one that covered Appalachian gunsmiths, the testimony of some of these long gone gun makers that they often used broken window glass. It was specified that older window glass gives a better edge and breaks in various curved edges that facilitate complex surface scraping. And, since the glass will dull eventually, it can be either broken into smaller bits for a new edge and, eventually, discarded. I use broken glass as well as hardened steel scrappers and find that, when the glass scrapper is sharp, no steel scrapper can compare for a fine sure cut. And it doesn't take long to take off wood this way.

I guess I'm the dumb one that has to ask what the red thing is in the second step.

Do you have a video on browning barrels and hardware?

I am pondering the thought of scraping my stock. Thanks for posting this Video as it helps me see how you scrape the contours of the stock.

Great video, I watched it a few times during this step in the kit build.

what kind of stand are you using to support the stock ?

Is this procedure done to remove CNC mill marks at the beginning of stock prep for a build? Prior to or post sanding?

What the reason to scrape a stock?