My Grandfather learned how to hand scrape during World War II in England. He loved the process and level of difficulty to overcome imperfections. Women in machine shops all over England learned this trade in order to keep machines operating where downtime was kept to a minimum. There was a war going on and precision was not easy to maintain as factories were constantly under threat of bombing. Lubricants were often in short supply accelerating wear and tear on the machines. Groups of 5 to 7 women would tackle a single machine and attempt to complete a job in a single 10 hour shift. They never stopped. 6 ½ days a week they would be ferried to machine shops across England, Wales and Scotland.

Between you, John and Keith. I think over 100k youtubers got a chance to watch and learn from the scraping class! Thanks for sharing!

Great Video Adam - glad that you were able to get a lot more of the details. I was running around so much I did not get very much. I had a great time - you are welcome here any time!

Looks like you guys learned a great deal in this class. Richard is a great teacher and totally committed to teaching us young guys how to scrap to keep this craft going.

Since the majority of people would not have power scrapers I think it was wise on your part to learn the hand scraping method best. Great job on the scraping and explaining what your doing.

God bless you Adam for taking this class, and bless Richard King too for permitting you to film bits and pieces of your own progress as you practiced and continued to get more competant at it.

Be there and be square. That sure looks like a good time with a lot of real information flying around. I can feel it in the air from here. Kudos to Keith for the use of his workshop, what a gathering.

your video is well done. Richard helped me get a JET lathe headstock aligned. My hero and me a complete novice. You are fortunate to be involved. Congrats. No computer here.

this has got to be the best video showing the learning process ...makes my learning process much less frustrating.

Awesome! What a great class. Thanks for the video, Adam!

That looked like a great class and experience. Nothing beats hands on.

Looked like you guys had a great time. Keith's shop is a real Georgia gem. Thanks so much for sharing this video. It gave insight into something I had never seen before.

Hey Adam... a lot of cool guys learning together... seen John's videos too... very nice and all that in Keith's new shop.... that is just awesome to watch! Thanks to you and John... now I believe I finally understand what all the fuzz about scraping means... thank you both for that!

All I can say is wow... all the KZfaq creators who attended have done a tremendous job of communicating your experience to those of us who were not fortunate enough to attend. Hope to meet some of you this year if there is a BarZ bash in the summer...

Hey Abom, I knew you would have the best hand skills of any of the youtube machining crowd I watch!!!!

Don't know that I'd ever have the need, but the process is intriguing! Thanks!

Fascinating Gentleman.. It's a dying art that is being reborn by all you guys.

Well once again I learned something new that I never heard of before. Thanks Adam for the birds eye view of your course you took and I hope you get to use it a lot!

hi adam..your heart is big helping your friends ... total respect sir,

I watched Keith's video first, then John's and now yours. Cool to see different angles of the same thing.

a lot of hard work in the start but easier as the skill rises great to see thanks for sharing

I saw Jon's video and said that it looked like all of you had fun. Richard sounds like one of those "old timers" that would be interesting to listen to let alone get hands on training from. Major switch for you in going from ABom Torque to the fine motor control that is necessary for scraping.

Very interesting. I had never seen the process before. Thanks!

Great Vid Adam, looks like everyone enjoyed themselves while learning alot. Thanks for taking us along!

awesome to see, watched vids of most the guys there with you, absolutely awesome to see you all together.

So grateful for your videos.

Fascinating. Wish I was way younger and could look into all this.

Thank you for the great video Adam.

Wow! That is really cool! I am glad to see some younger people learning this so hopefully it does not become a lost art.

Very nice work, Adam, especially for a beginner! Well, I guess you do know your way around metal at bit... You are a natural at scraping...

Looks like a good group of fellow trainees & a good time learning.

Awesome show Adam, really enjoyed it !...Jon Johnson

Awesome! Scraping is on my list to try some day as well. I saw Saunders' shirt and guessed him right away. #LicensedToMill

So what seemed more comfortable for the flaking the stiff or flexy blade holder? Thanks for taking us along on your adventure.

Thanks for showing! I want to attend one of Richard's classes...

Cool stuff Adam👍 thanks for shearing man😃

I really thought these videos was going to be boring. Not shy saying how wrong I was. Awesome!

Thats my dream shop.

Thanks for the video as always Adam. The whole time the class was running I was concerned that Keith's new shop would blow away in the storms. Glad you all made it fine.

More excellent video work Adam.

nice to see another skill being passed on before its lost keep up the great work Abom

Great stuff. Thanks for sharing.

wow, the combined talent in that shop!

Excellent video Adam, looks like good fun.

I have a small angle plate that I did quite some years back, there was no machining at all apart from tool and cutter grinding on 2 faces. This project was a rough casting that I had to hand chisel all surfaces then scrape 2 sides flat then surface grind 2 faces and use a cup wheel on the the 2 inner faces on a tool and cutter grinder. I can remember saying why can we use the milling machine, this would save the hands from the hammer and chisel. We broke a few over head fluro lights from the cast iron chips. LOL

A lot of excites. Thanks for sharing this, Adam

Super video Adam, thanks for taking the time out to make it while you were training, that scraping by hand takes some practice for sure, but you block looked good .

Nice video Adam !! Keep up the good work

Thanks Adam that was interesting.

Very nice progress was looking good.

thats one beautiful shop!

Nice video Adam very interesting .

Great stuff Adam, you are awesome!!

Hey Adam, thanks for putting your video up and sharing with us. Keith's shop looks fantastic. I wish I had enough time to watch more of the great content you guys put up. A couple of opinions for what they're worth. When scraping I'd suggest not to handle the work with your bare hands quite as much. You'd be surprised how much even a small block like that will move. You can test that yourself and I think you'll be surprised. Your scraper around 7:00 appears to be blunt. When grinding the radii it can sometimes be easier to leave them in the handle and use a parallel etc to block it up, and then you can easily pivot on the radius. It's just a bit quicker and probably more accurate. No biggie, but FWIW. Once the radius is set it shouldn't need to be changed so I lap my scrapers on a cast iron power lap and touch them up reasonably often. Not so much when power scraping, but a truly sharp scraper when hand scraping can make a huge difference. I've never seen Canode lifted off like that, very cool! I suspect one of many of Richard King "trade secrets" he gives away in his classes. Mate that flaking looks absolutely awesome and wouldn't look out of place on even the finest machinery made. You should be very proud of what you achieved. Well done, and again thanks for sharing this with the world.

Good job Adam, keep at it, it gets easier. Your hand flaking looks great BTW, that aint easy. A little tip for your angle plate, scrape the large surface flat first and scrape / align the smaller surface second, less work in aligning the smaller surface ;)

Huh, your teacher lives about 20 minutes from me, bet he enjoyed getting away from Winter up here. ;) And this was a great series of videos you released today, Adam, thanks!

Very interesting, love to learn more about this

Such a bunch of great guys :-)

cant wait to se ya make a cylinder square for the new flat surface plate always wondered can you scrape a combo square head square your doin awesome, wish I was there.

Would have loved to take the class as well. Have always been interested in how it was done. :-)

Excellent vid....

Nice intro to the process.

I think the most I got was 28 points/inch. I told Richard that was good enough for me

I love the internet. I have wondered how the half moons flakes are made. That is totally not how i thought it would be done. Thanks.

Very nice trip and pretty didactic course. thumb up from me.

A shop to die for.But a shop is never big enough ,or a storage shed for old tractors,like me.

Keith really set the high water mark for building a workspace for a classroom. Tell him to dig a pit in the middle for a fire so the whole floor gets warm and keeps his equipment (and people) a nice steady temperature haha Sooo cool though. Don't get frustrated. If you're taking longer, you're learning more. It's just that simple. Looked good to me and your half moons started looking very very regularly shaped. Are they going to provide a master plate and some grit at the end so you can really dial it in?

and fun was had by all easy on the abom torque lol nice to see the grass again its all white up here

I'm really curious about something: In the step where you're using the orange mallet to strike the scraper, why not attach an angled striking surface to the scraper body? It should also help you see the angle you'd like to keep. It just seems like a slight misuse to be intentionally striking the tool with the edge of the mallet and not the face.

I would pay good money for a full how to video on this skill! Or at least a book on it. Does sucha thing exist? ..with that said, Adam, you might consider making an online machining school with good quality videos. Have a monthly subscription or purchase the videos singularly. This business model is getting very popular and is lucrative. But more importantly you could keep these skills alive and fill a need for hobbyists like myself.

TOOO COOOL !! ROCK-ON !

John Saunders probably thinking, F-this, i just cnc it. hehehehehehehe :D

Great class of men. In the photo shot with you and the guys at the eat out was that Keith's wife sitting next to him as I have not seen a photo of her?

Adam thanks for this video very interesting indeed - good to see this knowledge being passed on to those interested in learning What is the background music in this one

love it, ty!

Great.....Thanks!

Hi from Russia Adam! In your vid about new Cushman chuckyou used graphite powder as a lubricant. Please tell about it more, and if i can use it for 3-jaw chuck with a "spiral" type big nut if i said understandable)) Please tell what i can use for things like chucks and so on as a lubricant if i cannot find this dry powder. Thank you very much, we learn a lot from your videos in here. Sorry for my english.

looks like fun

scraping is easy, scraping in the right place is the skill and power scrapers help you ruin it quicker if you dont have the skill!

damn good stuff right there

No need for the Abom torque. Hey by the way I was down in Fla. last week glad to see warm weather.

how do you power scrape the straight edge at 26:10 to be uniformly flat from end to end if your doing it by hand ? as in it would sit flush against as granite flat block

But serious question, is grinding the surface not more precise then scraping. I understand the basic craftsmanship is necessary to learn but.

I must be missing something. What is the purpose of this?

Is Keith not gonna put up a dedicated room for grinding.

Adam are you using the Skylab gimbal (or similar) to film this?

I'd be worried that too much material would be removed, rendering the piece unusable. Is that a concern?

Where can I get a carbide scraping tip? I have worn the tip of my Standvick scraper down to a nub.

I didn't see Dale Derry, I thought he was coming to?

What is the purpose of half moon scraping as opposed to just regular scraping?

Im not a machinist, what does scraping do?

You guys are only missing Keith Fenner

Hey Adam that block is flat cuz that's the one I used in the Boston class lol

Thank you Adam

I guess the moral of the story is, if you want to have "magic hands" like Adam Booth, do not move on until you master the skill you are working on.

like the tuns

open 'er up, let's see what that Mopar can do!

nu snap ik wat de bedoeling is en snap ik dat dit een belangrijk onderdeel is in jullie werk maar kan dit ook met machines ? gr bernd

Love your videos Adam but I'm a total noob i assumed that scraping was a flattening a surface but seems there's a lot more to it could you maybe cover the what and why of it like the half moon process

it looks like a galvanised finish, on video anyway