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Post by paulchapman on Sept 27, 2008 11:08:16 GMT
Pete Newton (Newt) kindly made me one of his fabulous brass scratch stocks recently. Apart from its intended use of making grooves for inlays, I found it great for grooving loose tenons to allow excess glue to escape. Here it is making some grooves in an oak loose tenon  Cheers  Paul |
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Post by Dave S on Sept 27, 2008 11:45:52 GMT
Nice one! I've usually resorted to sawing a couple of shallow kerfs on each side, but the scratch stock makes a much neater job. Looks like you could do all your tenon stock in one go before cross cutting to length too. Some nice brass to polish as well!! ;D Dave |
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Post by andy on Sept 27, 2008 18:24:24 GMT
Very nice Just hope Jacob don't see it with all that brass ;D |
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Post by mooretoolsplease on Sept 29, 2008 21:10:56 GMT
Can you post some more pictures of the scratch stock?
I fancy having a go at making one myself.
Thanks
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Post by paulchapman on Sept 30, 2008 14:38:24 GMT
Yes, a bit busy at the moment but I'll take a few more snaps and post them. Cheers Paul |
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Post by nickw on Sept 30, 2008 16:58:52 GMT
Or maybe we could commission/persuade Newt to make a batch?
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Post by paulchapman on Oct 1, 2008 14:06:46 GMT
Can you post some more pictures of the scratch stock? I fancy having a go at making one myself. Here you go, a couple of pics of the underside, which is curved and polished   And here's one of the groove the fence slides along  If you have a go at making one, there are a couple of modifications you might like to consider. First, if you drill and tap two holes, one at each end of the fence, you could insert a couple of bolts and smooth over the heads. It would then follow a curve. Second, I have the idea of using beading cutters from combination planes in it to make c*ck beads. This would be easier with an extension to the fence (which is easily added) so that it could slide slightly under the cutter. Nick, on the question of Newt making a batch, you could always ask him but he's made quite a few and I guess he's probably sick of making them by now (plus they take time when made to this standard). Cheers Paul PS The forum obviously thinks c*ck beads are rude  ;D |
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