Kevin Colwell Posted June 5, 2009 Share Posted June 5, 2009 Greetings everyone, I am sort of on light duty, surgery a week ago. today I was able to make a simple fuller scraping tool, and it works really well. It is simple, it is ugly, it is sturdy, it is something that someone who has a minor grasp of forging grinding and heat treating can make, and most of all... it WORKS. So:1. take a half-round file, heat it bend it so you can put pressure on it with hand clearance, and rock it to get the optimal cutting angle. 2. grind a bit (whatever shape you want your fullers to be) on the end, with flat side doing the cutting. 3. Heat treat - leave really HARD 4. Clamp something for a guide to follow until you have a good channel started 5. Fuller away. Sure, there are better ones, but this will give you the ability to make fullers while you learn. As long as the fuller you want follows a straight line, you can set up some sort of guide to get you started. Enjoy the scraping, Kevin please visit my website http://www.professorsforge.com/ “Years ago I recognized my kinship with all living things, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on the earth. I said then and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a criminal element, I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.” E. V. Debs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dee Posted June 5, 2009 Share Posted June 5, 2009 i dont know if i should be insulted by the fact that you are calling it all ugly etc ... and yet it looks about the same as mine .. tehehe looks nice .. hope the surgery doesnt keep you away from using it on some upcoming blades Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Colwell Posted June 5, 2009 Author Share Posted June 5, 2009 (edited) Good to know - I can't remember where but I know I saw a pic of a scraper much like this one. I don't think it was from a half-round file, but it was almost the same. May have even been two or three in the photo. Somewhere I encountered those as an option to the carefully-made tool with a drilled-and-tapped set of holes to change and lock bits with, and a movable guide. Someone showed the lower-tech option of just making several simple ones, with different bit shapes, rather than one which could have it's bits changed. I will be ok - thanks. I can already move my fingers better than before surgery. Also, so I wouldn't go too crazy while healing, I forged out blanks for pukko-like general user, a seax, and a kukri. So, I have stuff to work on that won't violate Dr's orders. The big forging session was fun, all the kids in the neighborhood call me "the knife guy," and they love to watch when I forge stuff. I am sort of testing the motivation of one of them. If he is serious I will teach him what little I can. Spend 11 years in school to become a Psychologist, and my favorite title turns out to be "Knife Guy." Kevin (knife guy) Edited June 5, 2009 by Kevin (The Professor) please visit my website http://www.professorsforge.com/ “Years ago I recognized my kinship with all living things, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on the earth. I said then and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a criminal element, I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.” E. V. Debs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dee Posted June 5, 2009 Share Posted June 5, 2009 well im glad that you are taking Dr's orders and are doing well. Spend 11 years in school to become a Psychologist, and my favorite title turns out to be "Knife Guy." lol ... you are talking to a uni-drop out here .... psych-major as it would happen boy oh boy did my parents looooove that. so is the scraper to be used on one of those up and coming knives? .. or was it just a tool that was on your brain? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Colwell Posted June 5, 2009 Author Share Posted June 5, 2009 Plan to try and fuller the itty bitty seax (about 9inch blade, 1.5-1.7" wide). Double fullers planned for Kukri, it is too heavy right now. We will see how it goes. If I never post them, well... Kevin (I don't really rate "knife guy" in this company, just for suburban CT). please visit my website http://www.professorsforge.com/ “Years ago I recognized my kinship with all living things, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on the earth. I said then and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a criminal element, I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.” E. V. Debs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Joyce Posted June 6, 2009 Share Posted June 6, 2009 Kevin, best of luck with your recuperation. That is an awesome way to use your down time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Madigan Posted June 8, 2009 Share Posted June 8, 2009 It looks like a king cobra in that one picture. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Kelley Posted June 9, 2009 Share Posted June 9, 2009 It is simple, it is ugly, it is sturdy Heck! That describes dang nigh half the wimmin in Menifee County! Nice job. Looks like it is heavy enough to help avoid a lot of chattering. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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