scraping steel

[LavaWood]

I've worked in the machine tool business for 20 years.
Scraping is a common method for making large surfaces flat relative to a mating part and create a surface oil likes to adhere to.
It can be done by hand or with a powered tool. The guys who do this are magicians, especially the last few that do this by hand.
It's truly a dying art. Maybe it's been done before, but I'd love to see this incorporated in a knife design.
Those who would recognize it would really appreciate it.

 

[xxwjtxx]

Very cool stuff -- would love to hear some feedback from other craftsmen on this one for sure. Traditional style smithing and metal work is agreeably a waning art -- getting exposed to stuff like this is very cool. I remember the first time I saw a guy do some work on an old school English wheel -- blew my mind.

 

[Crano]

I've never seen this before but I must say it does look pretty sweet , wouldn't mind seeing it incorporated into a knife design myself it just might be difficult to shark when the time came

Mick

 

[McVeyMac]

Very cool stuff -- would love to hear some feedback from other craftsmen on this one for sure. Traditional style smithing and metal work is agreeably a waning art -- getting exposed to stuff like this is very cool. I remember the first time I saw a guy do some work on an old school English wheel -- blew my mind.

Hey Will, a friend of mine gave to me a book a few years back that I am sure is out of print called "The Wheelwrights Shop" by George Sturt. This book totally amazed me, and it was all about the skill associated with wagon, cart and wheel making in the 19th and early 20th century. The book was first published in 1923. The author is from England, but what is amazing to me is that apprentices would work as apprentices for 6-10 or more years before they received any title or could work independently. The products that those people would make would be functional for 100 years or more with the appropriate care, and the entire thing was made by hand from tree felling to sawing to curing to shaping, etc.

 

[crex]

Used something similar more like a drawknife for flattening my early forging efforts, before going on to files then sandpaper. My grandfather taught me how to use one on steel, I believe he called a "sen". Finally figured out how to forge correctly and don't need to anymore. Lot of the old handtool craftsmanship have been slipping away. Mostly because even if you are very good at it and make it look easy....it's still hard work. Machines have made us pretty darn lazy.

 

[catalystman80]

cool stuff, thanks for sharing! the close up shot is kind of reminiscent of the fiddle texture that Andy & co. put on cpm 154s.