Today I sharpened up a fresh card scraper and set out to remove that hideous section of tear-out that demonically birthed yesterday. First, I used a pencil to darken in the area of tear-out. I then drew a series of loose swirls around the section of tear-out to provide a reference to how far out I needed to feather the planing. As you can see in the pictures, I kept feathering outward as I scraped to avoid putting a divot in the board. |
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Today I received a package in the mail from Tools For Working Wood - always a good thing! Inside was a new Olsen coping saw and two different sets of skip-toothed blades - one set was the 16-tpi offering from TFWW and the other was the Pegasus brand 18-tpi blades. If looks were the deciding factor the Pegasus brand blades looked nicer with their case coloring and shinny teeth. However, looks mean little... I decided to test the saw and the two different blades on a scrap piece of 3/4" cherry since that is what gave me such problems with my last coping saw (junk...). What I immediately noticed was that the blade was held in much stronger tension than my last saw could ever muster. That alone likely accounted for a lot of the problem I was having with my last saw. As stated above, looks mean little, but the Olsen saw was shinny and had a larger, more refined handle.
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