A friend was telling me that I probably went about the wrong way on my last post about gouges vs scrapers. Scrapers have their place, in an arsenal of gouges, lol. What I dont like is someone starting only with scrapers and or scraping techniques. Just had a little run in with a beginner down south. I gently tried to tell him that if he cut the wood his piece would look much better. He used some kind of pine, and you know what happens when you scrape soft pine...
A few months ago I turned my mini scraper, yes, you heard right, I do have scrapers, and lots of them, lol, I turned it into a mini NRS, the one that I use to finish my hollow forms. If you ever turned Koa, you know how finicky she is... The mini NRS left a beautiful surface. The scraper used to do a decent job, but the mini NRS in my humble opinion is an improvement. One last thing, not every wood likes the NRS, some, like Milo, leaves a glassy surface, a 10. There are different grades of Koa, some Koa cuts like Kou, super nice, some Koa no matter what you try you won't get a nice surface on the end grain. Aloha
A few months ago I turned my mini scraper, yes, you heard right, I do have scrapers, and lots of them, lol, I turned it into a mini NRS, the one that I use to finish my hollow forms. If you ever turned Koa, you know how finicky she is... The mini NRS left a beautiful surface. The scraper used to do a decent job, but the mini NRS in my humble opinion is an improvement. One last thing, not every wood likes the NRS, some, like Milo, leaves a glassy surface, a 10. There are different grades of Koa, some Koa cuts like Kou, super nice, some Koa no matter what you try you won't get a nice surface on the end grain. Aloha