Richard I've been turning for a few years and still consider myself a beginner, I love your videos, no rambling introductions just right down to business with clear and easy to follow content, thank you !
Richard, I like they way you include things such as catches in you videos. They emphasis what not to do as well as why they happen. Thank you for sharing 11:03 these great videos.
Probably the most watched and appreciated use of any turning tool, the ‘dreaded’ scraper, the skew possibly runs a close second. Thank you for this demonstration, well worth watching. Greetings from Tasmania Australia 👍😁🇦🇺🦘
Perfect! Thank you. My only problem now is that as I progressed through the video I went back and forth from "definitely making a skewed shear scraper!" to "nope, definitely making a spear point". So now I guess I'll have to go root out a couple of semi-retired tools from their attic slumber and make one of each.
Ever since you've been posting masterclasses on TH-cam, I've converted two of my hefty skews into scrapers! After watching this, I'll make a spear point chisel 😊
You answered my question about drying difficult wood about a week ago. I just wanted to say thanks again for taking the time to answer me. After I got your reply, I looked at the rough turnings, and the ones with thicker bottoms were the ones with splits. I will be taking more care when rough turning from now on.
I really enjoy your videos very much! Great info from a true woodturning legend, put forth concisely and without distractions and annoying music. Please keep up the great work!!!!!
I use tilted shear scrapers a lot now since I watched your first video on them. I don't have a spear point though. I will in a few mins tho. Thanks. Debs
Hello mr. Raffan and thanks for this video. I am in Italy: scraping here is very frown upon. Basically a second grade way of working compared to gauge cutting, being cutting with a gauge is sharper and cleaner… I started woodturning about one year ago, so I am way too at the beginning to have whatever strong opinion… sometimes it seems to me a bit of a fad. To me scraping seems a whole world of opportunities, your pieces seems extremely well and fastly done, with a well refined finishing. This is why I am eager to understand better how you use scrapers.
A properly sharpened scraper is in fact a cutting tool and makes shavings instead of dust. You can see very fine shavings being produced at 6:12 in this video, and the surface produced is very good. Tomislav Tomasic has an excellent video on sharpening a shear scraper, which I highly recommend. -Doc Green NC/USA
Hi Richard. I don't have any shear scrapers but I'm about to make me a couple after watching Mike Peace's video on making your own scrapers. Mike said he cut his nose angle at 45 deg. but that looks to be a sharper angle than on your standard shear scraper. Could I ask what the approximate nose angle is on yours? I realize it has a slight radius so just approximate would be great. Thank you, Tim
I'd start with the edge skewed about 15°-20° and a bevel of 45°. Ongoing grinding tends to increase the skewed angle and every few months I find myself taking it back towards 20°. You can shear scrape with any scraper, but my preferred size is a 1"x ¼".
For shear scraping the tool is tilted up and on edge, so the handle is usually below horizontal. Whereas if you're scraping with a scraper flat on the rest, the important thing is to keep the angle between the surface you're scraping and the top of the tool (or upper bevel with negative rake scrapers) at less than 90 degrees. On a flat surface this means the tool blade is usually tilted down below horizontal.
Excellent demonstration and info. I've got a couple of cheap skews from when I first started, and no longer use, I'm going to take your advice and turn them into scrapers and make use of them, I like the idea of your usual scraper, and also the spear point.
Great info, I remember when I did my post trade woodturning course "real woodturners did not use scrapers" how things have changed, ( for the better ) Henry Taylor still list Richard Raffin signature scrapers
Hello from France. I watch your videos with great interest. I learn a lot of things thanks to you. can you tell me your sharpening angle? and the tip angle of your tools? Thank you very much and good day. Yves.
Finally got to it after watching this video last week. I ground a decent cryo m2 steel 1" scraper this morning into a shear scraper and I find it very easy to use now, since shear scraping is a very light touch technique. Great suggestion!
I have a set of cheap skews and I’ve really got to liking the skew for spindle work, so once I upgrade the current ones will be my shear scrapers! They double as negative take scrapers now quite often 🤣
Thanks Richard for this overview. I too have been using scrapers a lot more since watching your videos. I know you freehand sharpen these but would you mention the bevel angles once again for us new people. Also does lathe speed come into play when using these tools in shear scraping? Thanks again.
Thank-you. This was very helpful. To date, I've only used the square and rounded scrapers; this really shows how a spearpoint scraper could be quite useful.
Thank you so much Richard! A great demonstration and close look at your scrapers and how/when to use which one. I am actually looking to do exactly what you suggested and turn an old skew into a scraper. Thank you!
I was able to secure a brand new Henry Talyor Richard Raffan radiused scraper and it has become my go to for shaping and refining those surfaces! Really appreciate you and all you have done for our craft!
A negative rake scraper has two bevels, rather like a skew chisel. I regard them as a waste of a good scraper (which has a single bevel). To obtain a negative rake, simply ensure the scraper blade is tilted below horizontal. The angle between the top of the tool and the surface you're turning needs to be less than 90°.
Typically I use tools straight off my 80 CBN wheel and hone with a coarse hone unless the wood is particuarly hard like cocobolo, Arican blackwood or gidgee or Cooktown ironwood.
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Richard I've been turning for a few years and still consider myself a beginner, I love your videos, no rambling introductions just right down to business with clear and easy to follow content, thank you !
Very instructional, many thanks for making this video. By the way, Lee Valley carries your Henry Taylor signature spearpoint shear scraper.
Richard, I like they way you include things such as catches in you videos. They emphasis what not to do as well as why they happen.
Thank you for sharing 11:03 these great videos.
Probably the most watched and appreciated use of any turning tool, the ‘dreaded’ scraper, the skew possibly runs a close second. Thank you for this demonstration, well worth watching. Greetings from Tasmania Australia 👍😁🇦🇺🦘
Perfect! Thank you. My only problem now is that as I progressed through the video I went back and forth from "definitely making a skewed shear scraper!" to "nope, definitely making a spear point". So now I guess I'll have to go root out a couple of semi-retired tools from their attic slumber and make one of each.
Ever since you've been posting masterclasses on TH-cam, I've converted two of my hefty skews into scrapers!
After watching this, I'll make a spear point chisel 😊
You answered my question about drying difficult wood about a week ago. I just wanted to say thanks again for taking the time to answer me. After I got your reply, I looked at the rough turnings, and the ones with thicker bottoms were the ones with splits. I will be taking more care when rough turning from now on.
Every day’s a school day. Thank you for continuing to share your expertise 🌞
I really enjoy your videos very much! Great info from a true woodturning legend, put forth concisely and without distractions and annoying music. Please keep up the great work!!!!!
I use tilted shear scrapers a lot now since I watched your first video on them. I don't have a spear point though. I will in a few mins tho. Thanks. Debs
Way to go, Debs.
Thank you for the information on these tools. A quick google search shows that Packard Woodworks has your tools for sale.
Hello mr. Raffan and thanks for this video. I am in Italy: scraping here is very frown upon. Basically a second grade way of working compared to gauge cutting, being cutting with a gauge is sharper and cleaner…
I started woodturning about one year ago, so I am way too at the beginning to have whatever strong opinion… sometimes it seems to me a bit of a fad.
To me scraping seems a whole world of opportunities, your pieces seems extremely well and fastly done, with a well refined finishing.
This is why I am eager to understand better how you use scrapers.
A properly sharpened scraper is in fact a cutting tool and makes shavings instead of dust. You can see very fine shavings being produced at 6:12 in this video, and the surface produced is very good. Tomislav Tomasic has an excellent video on sharpening a shear scraper, which I highly recommend. -Doc Green NC/USA
Hi Richard. I don't have any shear scrapers but I'm about to make me a couple after watching Mike Peace's video on making your own scrapers. Mike said he cut his nose angle at 45 deg. but that looks to be a sharper angle than on your standard shear scraper. Could I ask what the approximate nose angle is on yours? I realize it has a slight radius so just approximate would be great.
Thank you,
Tim
I'd start with the edge skewed about 15°-20° and a bevel of 45°. Ongoing grinding tends to increase the skewed angle and every few months I find myself taking it back towards 20°. You can shear scrape with any scraper, but my preferred size is a 1"x ¼".
@@RichardRaffanwoodturning Thank you so much Richard!
Silly question, but you're operating around the mid-line of the piece , and handle is high when starting?
For shear scraping the tool is tilted up and on edge, so the handle is usually below horizontal. Whereas if you're scraping with a scraper flat on the rest, the important thing is to keep the angle between the surface you're scraping and the top of the tool (or upper bevel with negative rake scrapers) at less than 90 degrees. On a flat surface this means the tool blade is usually tilted down below horizontal.
Excellent demonstration and info. I've got a couple of cheap skews from when I first started, and no longer use, I'm going to take your advice and turn them into scrapers and make use of them, I like the idea of your usual scraper, and also the spear point.
Richard, can you share what included angle your scrapers and shear scrapers use? Thanks.
I have a bevel around 45° on almost every tool.
Great info, I remember when I did my post trade woodturning course "real woodturners did not use scrapers" how things have changed, ( for the better ) Henry Taylor still list Richard Raffin signature scrapers
Thank you very much Richard, for another “very useful” video on turning tools! Please keep them coming! Greetings from Virginia Beach!
Hello from France. I watch your videos with great interest. I learn a lot of things thanks to you. can you tell me your sharpening angle? and the tip angle of your tools? Thank you very much and good day.
Yves.
45° on the nose of gouges and round-nose scrapers but steeper on the sides so they are less likely to catch.
Thanks you very mutch 😉👍
Thank you so much for sharing your vast knowledge with the rest of us! :)
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Thank you for this video. I've been wondering about your scrapers and you've answered questions I didn't know I had.
Finally got to it after watching this video last week. I ground a decent cryo m2 steel 1" scraper this morning into a shear scraper and I find it very easy to use now, since shear scraping is a very light touch technique. Great suggestion!
I have a set of cheap skews and I’ve really got to liking the skew for spindle work, so once I upgrade the current ones will be my shear scrapers! They double as negative take scrapers now quite often 🤣
Very interesting
Thanks Richard for this overview. I too have been using scrapers a lot more since watching your videos. I know you freehand sharpen these but would you mention the bevel angles once again for us new people. Also does lathe speed come into play when using these tools in shear scraping? Thanks again.
Thank-you. This was very helpful. To date, I've only used the square and rounded scrapers; this really shows how a spearpoint scraper could be quite useful.
Thank you so much Richard! A great demonstration and close look at your scrapers and how/when to use which one. I am actually looking to do exactly what you suggested and turn an old skew into a scraper. Thank you!
another great video, I use scrapers a lot more since watching your video's. made one from an old file which works well.
Very useful and enlightening, many thanks. An interesting little 'form' too, a pity it is so split. Thanks again
I’ve been wondering about the spear point scraper mentioned in your books, but hadn’t seen it in a video yet. Thanks!
I’ve had one of those pointed tools since I was given a job lot of old tools. I’ve never used it. Cannot wait to try it out.
Very instructive, thank you Richard.
I prefer to use various scrapers in many situations, thanks for sharing.
A very good demonstration on these tools not only for beginners thank you
What grind angle are those scrapers?
Around 45°
I was able to secure a brand new Henry Talyor Richard Raffan radiused scraper and it has become my go to for shaping and refining those surfaces! Really appreciate you and all you have done for our craft!
Good! I wasn't sure they're still available. Glad to have been of help with your turning.
Many thanks for this vidéo. This is the first time I see so detailled explication on the subject. Regards from France.
The Henry Taylor scraper when you first purchase has a steeper angle on bevel. Why do you grind at 45 degrees?
Excellent education video. 🙂🙂
Very good information thank you
Thank's for this one.
Hi Richard, very useful video however I am still confused about the difference between a shear scraper and a negative rake scraper.
A negative rake scraper has two bevels, rather like a skew chisel. I regard them as a waste of a good scraper (which has a single bevel). To obtain a negative rake, simply ensure the scraper blade is tilted below horizontal. The angle between the top of the tool and the surface you're turning needs to be less than 90°.
@@RichardRaffanwoodturning Thanks for the explanation, much simpler than I thought.
Thank you, Richard! Very helpful. What grit of diamond file should one use to raise the burr on these for fine, gentle scraping?
Typically I use tools straight off my 80 CBN wheel and hone with a coarse hone unless the wood is particuarly hard like cocobolo, Arican blackwood or gidgee or Cooktown ironwood.
Thank you.
Thanks Richard.
Another great video. What angle to you use?
I'm assuming you mean bevel angle rather than angle of approach. These bevels are around 45°.
Richard, you are a God which. When you are making your square plates, gods still appear, human little catches with rulers, excellent