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Title: Bowyers tool
Post by: Buemaker on February 08, 2016, 03:02:00 AM

I knew Dictum had many nice tools, but had not seen these before. This Chinese tool can be had both with straight and concave blades.
 https://www.dictum.com/en/tools/woodworking-metalworking/planes/traditional-chinese-planes/702978/multi-bladed-scraping-plane-straight-blades?ffRefKey=cv7GUCtT6

Title: Re: Bowyers tool
Post by: Roy from Pa on February 08, 2016, 05:44:00 AM

Neat tool, Bue.

Title: Re: Bowyers tool
Post by: Jan Westphal on February 08, 2016, 10:33:00 AM

I've had this thinking it would be the perfect tool for selfbow belly work but was dissappointed and gave it to a friend after a few tries.
Found it hard to get consistent results.

Title: Re: Bowyers tool
Post by: Jomohr84 on February 08, 2016, 01:53:00 PM

Interesting tool, would be fun to give it a try sometime.

Title: Re: Bowyers tool
Post by: passion for knowledge on February 08, 2016, 07:06:00 PM

Keeping the blades all in contact at once would be a tricky thing, I think.

I made a couple of scrapers out of old recip-saw bladed. Not perfect, they need to be sharpened fairly regularly, but they bend a bit more than standard made-for-the-purpose scrapers. I find that helpful at times.