These are winging their way to my letterbox:
https://www.classichandtools.com/acatalog/Lynx-Quadrant-Scraper-Set-LynxQuad.html#SID=157
Inexpensive and hopefully able to replace sanding of various curved-edges on wee boxes of swirly timber and the like. But ….
….it suddenly occurs to me that I have no idea how to burnish the small radius corners of these scrapers. My Hock burnisher is too fat to get into many of those teeny quadrants. So how will I get a burr on them?
I can probably polish their edges with some 3M fine grit papers wrapped around a piece of teeny dowel (I have plain dowel going down to 3mm / 1/8″” diameter). But how to get a cutting lip?
I’d be grateful for any advice.
Lataxe
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Search "scratch stock" on FWW. I doubt you can get a burr to wrap those profiles, but if you sharpen them flat & square like for a scratch stock they should work.
Veritas Tri-Burnisher would fit but, I notice it is no longer available. I agree that stoning the faces and a fine round file would probably be adequate to give you an edge for this use.
I'll try the small corners unburnished, a la scratch stock, as you both suggest.
I do have a rectangular scraper that's 4mm thick and made of hard steel that's too hard to turn a burr on. It does take shavings (just) with only a right angle of polished edge and face but it's very fine shavings soon turn to dust so more polishing up the sharp corner is needed.
I suppose these small radius scrapers will act the same. On the other hand, a scratch stock can take quite good bites, presumably because it's small so the pressure on the cutting edge is greater ....... ?
In all events, some play with the things will reveal their capabilities or lack of them.
Lataxe
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