The hardwood finisher : with rules and directions for finishing in natural colors and in antique, mahogany, cherry, birch, walnut, oak, ash, redwood, sycamore, pine and all other domestic woods, also miscellaneous rules for filling, staining, varnishing, polishing, dyeing, gilding and bronzing : together with hints on the preparation of woodwork for the finisher (1908)
New York : Industrial Publication Co. · leaf 21
ct that the proper duty of the scraper is not to make a surface, but to correct the irregularities on it. The cutting power of the scraper depends upon, first, the quality and temper of the steel of which it is made ; and, secondly, upon the proper formation of the burr or feather along its edges.… … piece of sheet steel — a piece of an old hand-saw or try- square, for example — being used as a scraper. The smallest appre¬ ciation of why the scraper cuts would indicate how useless such material is for this particular purpose. On the other hand, scarcely anything better can be found for making a…
Wood finishing
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