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- From: bennett@adobe.com(Bennett Leeds)
- Subject: Re: Scraping versus Sanding
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.052451.7139@adobe.com>
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- References: <1992Nov17.020603.2783@cirrus.com>
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- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 05:24:51 GMT
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- John Wishneusky writes
- > In article <3989@ecicrl.ocunix.on.ca> clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca (Chris
- Lewis) writes:
- > >In article <1992Nov5.102424@wsl.dec.com> gringort@wsl.dec.com (Joel
- Gringorten) writes:
- > >>In article <5330101@hpindda.cup.hp.com>, gph@hpindda.cup.hp.com (Paul
- Houtz) writes:
- > >
- > >>|> I would scrape rather than sand.
- > >
- > >>|> A good quality steel scraper, properly edged and burnished, will give
- you a
- > >>|> much better surface than sanding.
- > >
- > >>The context to which Paul wrote the above statement applied to oak, and I
- > >>think I agree. However, I wish to raise the question whether scraping is
- > >>*always* preferable to sanding, particularly in "problem" woods.
- > >
- > >Many people get religious and say that scrapers *ALWAYS* do a better job.
- > >That's simply not true. Scrapers don't work that well on softwoods,
- > >and behave miserably on things like birdseye maple, crotch grain etc.
- > >
- > >I had some fairly wild grain birch, and the scrapers (my first attempt)
- > >didn't do *that* great a job. (I believe I had the scrapers sharpened
- > >correctly, I was impressed with the shavings I was able to produce.)
- > >
- > I watched a Fine Woodworking video, I think it was on wood finishing,
- > where the craftsman demonstrated planing and scraping prior to
- > applying a finish to new wood. The piece he domonstrated on had an
- > area of "wild grain".
-
- Sounds like Frank Klausz's tape on wood finishing.
-
-
- > He had to approach little bits of the area from
- > different directions to get the best result, reading shifts in the
- > grain, but he did all the final surface preparation with a cabinet
- > scraper.
-
- If it *is* Klausz's tape, you need to keep watching. He brought out the
- sandpaper and gave the piece and thorough sanding (I think with 220 grit)
- after scraping, and before applying the French polish.
-
- - Bennett Leeds
- bennett@adobe.com
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