thanks for the purchase Steve!, any additional income is important for me now, as the situation in the country requires maximum support from everyone... I hope working with this tool will bring you great pleasure! respectfully!
Steve, I have no connection to the machinist industry professionally but I've become fascinated by it thanks to your videos. The explanations on what you're doing and why have been invaluable in gaining an understanding. Thanks for sharing. I now have a handful of machinist channels I follow thanks to finding yours first.
Steve, you are one cool dude. I enjoy so much looking at your videos. I know I'll never do the things you do, but it's a pleasure to watch a master at work. Keep up the good work...
A man after my own heart, ….”I got a big hammer….” I’m really enjoying this series. I’ve seen a good number of skilled folks do scraping, but you’re much more entertaining. Great video Steve!
Hi Steve, very interesting video looking forward to seeing you scraping in the straight edge I was very pleased to find you back on form, stay safe, best regards to Don too,
Really looking forward to seeing you scrape in those surfaces. Be great to see the process, I find I tend to jump from rough scraping to fine too early and end up with too low a PPI with a nice looking surface.
I'd love to buy the spares but IL never use them now.. Been collecting tools for over fifty plus years. Have some super rare Starrett tools before circa 1880 -1900 era. One I've never seen a center head foe scale to find centers , with tapered wings from small at the scale to about 2" at the broad open end. And many more tools. I bought at flea markets tool guy sales. That ornery snicker leads me to think Dons in for it. Love the way you guys help each other we need that one friend that'll drop and be there when needed. Mines in his 70s and moves around slot from Florida to Pennsylvania many times a year. Yupp I'd be on the extras if I wasn't bed bound I guess for life what's left ya know. Take care n God Bless youall.
@@johnb5519 My dad would walk me to the barber shop's door and say "Tell 'em you want a burr". 1st time I didn't know what a "burr" was....after that, I (like you) hated it.
Another great video. Thanks. I bought a small strait edge and some other stuff from Ukraine. I was wondering what would happen, but a month later it arrived.
Great stuff Steve! I've sent you an email before. My Ukrainian contacts are great people! Only scraper i don't have is the flaker. Will get one on loan. Not sure if I need additional blades right now though. The steel one is also for scraping trucite as it can be sharpened a bit differently. Keep after it!
Hi Steve I bought a Biax from Richard King in the spring. If you don’t have any buyers I’d get scraping blades. I hope you make a video of the flaker power tool running.
Get yourself a carbide scraper blade, make the holder, plenty of content on how to do that, a small surface plate and a lump of iron to practise on, you could be scraping for less than $200. It is physically hard on the body though.
I watched a couple of Abom/Richard King videos and scraped in the freshly milled inside sliding block surfaces of a shaper ram arm using nothing but a ground and polished flat file tip, 1-2-3 block, and dab of Prussian blue paste. Worked out fine. After that I made some "real" hand scrapers out of carbide Purdy paint scraper blade refills that I broke down, reshaped, and soldered to some random springy flat bar pieces I had laying around and stuck some big file handles on them. A grade "A" 4x12x18" granite surface plate was $80 from a woodworking supply house on-line. For less than a hundred dollars and a LOT of sweat and sore hands I was able to correct the wear on every way of the shaper and also the vise. I'm a rank amateur but saved a worn-out old machine and made it accurate again without spending a fortune, you can too if you want to. I also made a set of precision flat stones from a couple of Norton India oilstones that I honed flat using a cheap junky diamond tri-hone on the high spots, checking on the surface plate with a blued sheet of paper and then polished them into each other to smooth them up. With a little care and creativity you can do pretty well with very little.
I would like to see what you have for sale b4 you think of selling anything related to scraping on eBay....Anything you have that's extras and as well as a flicker and the Biax scrapers themselves....Thx
@@10swatkins my dad was a scraper hand in the detroit area for over 50 years. I have a bunch of misc. scraper tools -straight edges - cylinder squares. he worked mostly on vertical mills and surface grinders.
Maybe Don thought if he got his ears lowered you'd mistake him for a Ukrainian and give him some cash. Just a thought. And the best on the selling. I've got a battery trimmer coming from good old Ebay. Now it'll be pulling a battery instead of a crank rope. Happy week to you and remain as calm as you can. BLESSINGS!
@@10swatkins Yep, there are something like eleven people on the planet still doing this for a living and they bought all the ones they needed long ago. The demand is represented also by the number of foundries producing straightedge castings...I think there are currently two in the U.S.A. counting Clarke and Keith's undertaking.
Did you actually need to fill and scrape the divet? If you are using the straight edge to rub another part with blue to scrape it in, the blue is transferred from the high spots (points) on the straight edge, not the low spot of the divet (assuming the burrs surrounding it have been removed).
That’s why it’s important to practise on something that’s non critical. Anything flat with ideally few holes is good, like non slotted angle plates; you get 1/2” or so inch depth of material to work with. If it goes really worm you can mill, turn , grind or plane it off and start again. You are unlikely to ruin it by hand scraping as Steve says it’s slow,.
Just "one"hair? Interesting tools you got there. Could you be telling us this is a dying craft? Scraping, that is. Thanks for the look and take care of Don.
thanks for the purchase Steve!, any additional income is important for me now, as the situation in the country requires maximum support from everyone... I hope working with this tool will bring you great pleasure! respectfully!
It was my pleasure to help out! Stay safe and I hope your country gets back to a peaceful state as soon as possible!
Gotta love the big Radial Arm Drill press in the background!
Needs a little love, spindle downfeed started acting up... Just have to find some more time...
That machine is a planer.
Interesting!
The Evil snicker at the end was intriguing...
Thanks for sharing 🇨🇦
I'm also looking forward to the Scraping video.
We are getting to that point soon..
Steve, I have no connection to the machinist industry professionally but I've become fascinated by it thanks to your videos. The explanations on what you're doing and why have been invaluable in gaining an understanding. Thanks for sharing. I now have a handful of machinist channels I follow thanks to finding yours first.
Cool.. I love TH-cam as it really opens up my world to new methods and people!
Steve, you are one cool dude. I enjoy so much looking at your videos. I know I'll never do the things you do, but it's a pleasure to watch a master at work. Keep up the good work...
Thank you Thomas.. Thank you for watching an old fart:)
A man after my own heart, ….”I got a big hammer….” I’m really enjoying this series. I’ve seen a good number of skilled folks do scraping, but you’re much more entertaining. Great video Steve!
Glad to hear it!
@@10swatkins Here in Georgia, we sometimes refer to the Big Hammer as an "Alabama Swing Press"
Hi Steve, very interesting video looking forward to seeing you scraping in the straight edge I was very pleased to find you back on form, stay safe, best regards to Don too,
Thanks Richard.
I look forward to your next installment. FYI to the new guys, Bob is a lathe 😀
I should have mentioned that :)
The kingway is going to be very interesting
Yep :)
Really looking forward to seeing you scrape in those surfaces. Be great to see the process, I find I tend to jump from rough scraping to fine too early and end up with too low a PPI with a nice looking surface.
Thank you for video!
Cool stuff. Thanks to Internet all this niche knowledge could be generously shared.
Glad you liked it!
Nice one . I saw those blades come up for sale . You never see power scrapers here , they are just not around . 👍
Thanks Max
I'd love to buy the spares but IL never use them now.. Been collecting tools for over fifty plus years. Have some super rare Starrett tools before circa 1880 -1900 era. One I've never seen a center head foe scale to find centers , with tapered wings from small at the scale to about 2" at the broad open end. And many more tools. I bought at flea markets tool guy sales. That ornery snicker leads me to think Dons in for it. Love the way you guys help each other we need that one friend that'll drop and be there when needed. Mines in his 70s and moves around slot from Florida to Pennsylvania many times a year. Yupp I'd be on the extras if I wasn't bed bound I guess for life what's left ya know. Take care n God Bless youall.
I’m pretty sure that Steve would rather sell his spares to someone who would actually use them. Of course all control is lost once they’re sold.
Marvelous!! Can't wait for the next announcement/video!
Coming soon!
Thanks for sharing 👍
It's always amazed me that with all the modern equipment and machinery out there, that machines are finished by hand. So Don got his ears lowered.
lower the hell out of them :)
@@10swatkins When I was a kid, and my dad brought me to the barbers, he would say, "give him a bald head". I hated it.
Finally
@@johnb5519 My dad would walk me to the barber shop's door and say "Tell 'em you want a burr". 1st time I didn't know what a "burr" was....after that, I (like you) hated it.
Thanks Steve! I hope Santa can bring me a Biax someday! Hope to watch you complete Process and the 10ee.
I hope so too!
But Steve, the blases are METRIC! 😉 Thank you for yet another great video. 😊
Not when I measure them with my calipers :)
@@10swatkins They would have looked great in a banana shaped pouch though 🙂
Another great video. Thanks. I bought a small strait edge and some other stuff from Ukraine. I was wondering what would happen, but a month later it arrived.
The shipment took a little longer than expected but worked out in the end.. The tracking system need a lot of work though!
Great stuff Steve! I've sent you an email before. My Ukrainian contacts are great people! Only scraper i don't have is the flaker. Will get one on loan. Not sure if I need additional blades right now though. The steel one is also for scraping trucite as it can be sharpened a bit differently. Keep after it!
Cool, thanks
Looking great Steve......Paul over in Florida
Thanks Paul!
Hi Steve I bought a Biax from Richard King in the spring.
If you don’t have any buyers I’d get scraping blades.
I hope you make a video of the flaker power tool running.
So far I have 5 emails concerning that... I'll offer them in order of contact...
@@10swatkins I can order more from Ukraine
If you don’t mind sharing your contact connection
@@10swatkins where can I find your email? I want to be the 6th person interested!
good video steve
Cant Waite to see Don back Batman needs Robin Lol.... And 6 years wow i thought i was slow on LOL... Better late then never
Be careful what you wish for!
Just one question; did you save Don's pony tail?
Maybe, Maybe not. :)
I'm still hoping I can learn to scrape some day before I'm dead. ;) No budget for it right now. But I find the process fascinating.
Get yourself a carbide scraper blade, make the holder, plenty of content on how to do that, a small surface plate and a lump of iron to practise on, you could be scraping for less than $200. It is physically hard on the body though.
You n me both
I watched a couple of Abom/Richard King videos and scraped in the freshly milled inside sliding block surfaces of a shaper ram arm using nothing but a ground and polished flat file tip, 1-2-3 block, and dab of Prussian blue paste. Worked out fine. After that I made some "real" hand scrapers out of carbide Purdy paint scraper blade refills that I broke down, reshaped, and soldered to some random springy flat bar pieces I had laying around and stuck some big file handles on them. A grade "A" 4x12x18" granite surface plate was $80 from a woodworking supply house on-line. For less than a hundred dollars and a LOT of sweat and sore hands I was able to correct the wear on every way of the shaper and also the vise. I'm a rank amateur but saved a worn-out old machine and made it accurate again without spending a fortune, you can too if you want to. I also made a set of precision flat stones from a couple of Norton India oilstones that I honed flat using a cheap junky diamond tri-hone on the high spots, checking on the surface plate with a blued sheet of paper and then polished them into each other to smooth them up. With a little care and creativity you can do pretty well with very little.
I would like to see what you have for sale b4 you think of selling anything related to scraping on eBay....Anything you have that's extras and as well as a flicker and the Biax scrapers themselves....Thx
Hardly ever sell anything on ebay...
what is a biax power flaker worth in good condition.
I paid 1700 for mine with some tools...
@@10swatkins my dad was a scraper hand in the detroit area for over 50 years. I have a bunch of misc. scraper tools -straight edges - cylinder squares. he worked mostly on vertical mills and surface grinders.
Sandvik makes a carbide inserts for hand scrapers.
I have some...
Maybe Don thought if he got his ears lowered you'd mistake him for a Ukrainian and give him some cash. Just a thought. And the best on the selling. I've got a battery trimmer coming from good old Ebay. Now it'll be pulling a battery instead of a crank rope. Happy week to you and remain as calm as you can. BLESSINGS!
Why are Biax Scrappers SO expensive? Thousands of dollars??!
Limited market, mainly sold to people who make money off of it and it is a quality tool. Not Ryobi quality..
@@10swatkins Yep, there are something like eleven people on the planet still doing this for a living and they bought all the ones they needed long ago. The demand is represented also by the number of foundries producing straightedge castings...I think there are currently two in the U.S.A. counting Clarke and Keith's undertaking.
Did you actually need to fill and scrape the divet?
If you are using the straight edge to rub another part with blue to scrape it in, the blue is transferred from the high spots (points) on the straight edge, not the low spot of the divet (assuming the burrs surrounding it have been removed).
No I did not need to... Just keeps trash, dirt and bluing from building up in there...
Hope you got him waxed as well !!
You Sir have a sick mind :)
I suppose your going to try and sell Don's hair
Auction it off.
And no I don't want any of Don's locks.
I don’t blame you I didn’t want them either! Lol
Well your going to get some and like it!
@@10swatkins I'd like to donate my share back to the channel
I hope you find a buyer for the 2 kits.
Can you destroy the surface bye not knowing how to use the scraper.
That is just one of the the many ways I have destroyed surfaces :)
That’s why it’s important to practise on something that’s non critical. Anything flat with ideally few holes is good, like non slotted angle plates; you get 1/2” or so inch depth of material to work with. If it goes really worm you can mill, turn , grind or plane it off and start again. You are unlikely to ruin it by hand scraping as Steve says it’s slow,.
Just "one"hair? Interesting tools you got there. Could you be telling us this is a dying craft? Scraping, that is. Thanks for the look and take care of Don.
And the hair! It's probably bronzed like baby shoes used to be.
I don't think its dying,,, just expensive ;)
@@10swatkins There you go!