On Jul 21, 2010, at 5:23 PM, Ron Nossaman wrote: > One of the first tools I owned was a regular old much maligned Red > Devil scraper. It'll be one of the last I give up too. > > http://www.jamestowndistributors.com/userportal/show_product.do? > pid=54&familyName=Red+Devil+Scrapers > > I have three of them circulating around the shop at all times, a > 1-1/2", a 1", and a 1" I've ground to a convex curve. Keep them > sharp, learn how to use them, and you can do amazing surgical > things to wood and glue. My favorite is the steel of a 1-1/4" wide power hacksaw, such as found in a machine shop. Put it a vise, and you can break off pieces of any length. Ed Trefz showed me this at a bridge-notching 1-day workshop put on by Willis Snyder in Washington DC in '79. mrbl -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100721/89b55ed6/attachment.htm>
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