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Old timer showed me the cabinet scraper trick I'd been missing for 15 years
I spent years sanding every single face frame joint smooth by hand. Last month a 70 year old retired cabinet maker saw me doing it and asked why I wasn't using a cabinet scraper. He pulled out his old Stanley #80 and showed me how to sharpen it with a burnisher in about 2 minutes. Took me 30 minutes to finish a whole kitchen cabinet set that would have taken me 3 hours of sanding. The finish was actually smoother too with no dust clogging my paper. Has anyone else had that moment where an old timer showed you a tool you already owned but never used right?
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river_wright3mo ago
The real trick is knowing when not to sand at all and just scrape.
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the_shane2mo ago
Gotta hard disagree with you there @river_wright. Scraping leaves way too many gouges and uneven spots for my taste, a quick sand always gets a smoother finish in my experience.
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