143- Scraper Sharpening with William Ng

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During the Greene & Greene coffee table class I attended a few weeks ago, William Ng gave us an impromptu lesson in scraper sharpening. Fortunately I had my Flip Cam at the ready and captured this tutorial for your enjoyment.

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• woodworking
• card scraper
• sharpening

[James66860]

QUESTION: What is the brand name of Mr. Ng's "finishing" stones?

OBSERVATION: Lucky for us that you had your flip cam with you, Marc. Thanks. 

[TheWoodWhisperer]

@James66860 Pretty sure he has them for sale in his online store. I believe they are Takenoko.

[ronemarshall]

Is it better to go ahead and just use a scraper than a hand plane and sander then?

I'm getting into woodworking and have bought 4 sanders now and they work great but if there is a quicker and better way then I'm all for getting on the same page with that lol.

[TheWoodWhisperer]

@ronemarshall Well I wouldn't say any of them are "better" so much as they are just different ways of getting the job done. If you don't like sanding, a scraper and/or a smoothing plane will make you much happier. But a smoothing plane can be problematic on wild or figured grain. That's the beauty of the card scraper; its very easy to use.

[Mopardude]

Best explanation of how to properly sharpen card scrapers I have ever seen! Is this of a class he was teaching or something?

[TheWoodWhisperer]

@Mopardude it was during one of his classes, yes.

[theoriginalpunisher]

So that's what those things do. I've been using mine to get gum off table bottoms.

[SuperShedman]

incredible - very informative. Wish we had stuff like that around me. If we do then its not very well known.

Thanks

[wjacksonthree]

excellent! great video.

[loboguara11]

Awsome video! I' ve never thought it could be so easy to saharpen a card scraper...

[classicalguitarrocks]

He is a great teacher. Thorough and detailed.

[fekkapa]

oldschool

[MrLeonard55]

He's a great teacher.

[ronemarshall]

@TheWoodWhisperer Thanks bud.