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My woodturning club organized a Tool Making workshop a couple of weeks ago. I'm not a metal worker by any stretch of the imagination. I don't really like working with it. I don't know anything about it except for the fact that it's dirty and the shavings are sharp and dangerous. I see it mainly as a necessary evil to make tools that can cut wood :smile: But with the advice and guidance of all the folks at the workshop I'm well on my way to reproducing the Sorby catalog. :biggrin:
I found a piece of 4' oak handrail on the job site last week, so this weekend I finished making the handles for all my tools as well as putting the finished grinds on them. Two 1 1/4" scrapers, one spear point tool, one box scraper, one recess scraper, one shear scraper, one tool rest, two hollowing tools still in progress and an 1 1/4" solid aluminum handle drilled to accept tools on either side.

Not bad for $75 worth of metal.
 

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LOL, I'm looking forward to seeing these at PSI soon !!! What metal is it, HSS?
Perhaps a daft question, but what is the knob for on the spear point?
 
LOL, I'm looking forward to seeing these at PSI soon !!! What metal is it, HSS?
Perhaps a daft question, but what is the knob for on the spear point?

Steven, the scrapers are all made from HSS. PSI has them already, I'm copying them :biggrin:

The shear scraper is double ended. One side is angled to allow you to cut in one direction, the other side is angle the other way to allow you to cut in the other direction. It is for making minor corrections to the form of the outside of a bowl or a hollow form as well as to put a finish that minimizes sanding. The handle is open on both sides, so I can cut in one direction, loosen the knob, slide the tool out the other side of the handle and then cut in the direction.

Sounds great in theory, I have yet to use the tool though :biggrin:
 
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