Finally a video showing in depth how to make a negative rake scraper out of a regulator scraper. Your video went in detail and verbally explained how and why it’s done. Keep up the verbal vidios

love seeing those “ribbon cuts” come off the tool. Sweet turning. Thanks

Thanks for talking me throughx. The scraper loved thus talking. Really hit home and I’ve been turning for 20 years

Thank you for these scraping videos. Great detail.

Thanks Sam, very instructive as usual!

Thanks Sam. I’m going to repurpose some old skew chisels into negative rake scrapers. Thanks again for the informative video. Stay safe.

Great video Sam. Reassures me that converting one of my regular scrapers to a negative rake was not a bad decision after all

Thanks, Sam...lots of good info and demos!

Thanks Sam. I finally got a decent grind on my NRS!

I like my negative rake scraper and thanks for sharing your thoughts on them. btw I watched one your videos on making a 3 point tool and made one for myself today. It works really well. Again thanks for sharing. Stay safe in these trying times. 🙂

Excellent video Sam. Your diagrams look very good to me (who says you cannot draw?) You show the tool angles very well. Good demonstration of the use of the tool. Thank you for sharing and stay healthy.

Thank you , For all the good information

Thanks Sam. I had a square scraper thick, but one of our older turners from Club came to my home and took it to the grinder and said make it a negative rake. He started then left it for me to finish. LOL.... so today I am trying to finish it. But he went for same angle on each side. Like a skew chisel. I guess this will work. I need to finish it now. I like how you have yours two angles. But I am stuck now with the grind he started. He is the charter member who started club 30 years ago. HE is 86 and a very good turner. So I trust him. Hope to see you at SWAT someday. You are the go to guy!

Thanks Sam, always helpful. I use neg rake scrapers a great deal. Cheers from Clancy and stay safe. Still no decision on that new lathe. Still hope to get over there when things get better.

Thanks Sam on the demo of NRSs, however, I think you were just having fun making all the fine shavings. Hope you and your’s are staying safe. Cheers, Tom

I love my negative rake scrapers. Great video. I saw Stuart talk about NRS in an all day demo in 2008 but I don't believe he demonstrated them to any degree so it went over my head even though it was in my notes

Very helpfull, thank you.

Great video Sam endorsing my views on the NRS. Stay safe Cheers Mike

I was just reading in my book called "Wood Turning in North America Since 1930" about the turners in Coos and Curry counties in Oregon in the 1920's who turned redwood and myrtle tourist items using only scrapers - and sandpaper. Thanks for all the great info on this topic Sam.

Great tutorial, as always, Sam! Sandy in Ontario

I love mine.

Thanks

First.... nice diagrams. Second... lots of folks rave about carbide and what a great job it does with resin castings, BUT.... if you can't get a burr on carbide, then how does it cut so well. Last.... you are 100% correct, the shavings tell the story.

I like the leather trick

"Even Stuart understood the negative rake scraper..." 🤣

Thanks Sam I've needed direction on the NRS for some time . I had a catch with a conventional scraper that has kept me leery of scrapers

Hi Sam, I love my negative rake scraper and appreciate your refresher. I am recovering from left total knee replacement and the doc gave me permission to return to light duty in the workshop. Thinking a small bowl might be the ticket. I have been watching the last couple of months, but not able to comment. Best to Cheryle and Coco. Bob

Hi Sam, Another nice video. I also have watched your more recent 43 minute video from mid 2022. I have many of the Boxmaster & D-Way negative rake scrapers that I purchased a couple of years ago. So far I have maintained the same angles they cam with from D-Way Tools. I think it looks like you are using that same "factory grind" during your use of Boxmaster tools in this video around the 14:00 to16:00 mark. I checked the included angle on a new D-Way/Boxmaster negative rake scraper I have and the included angle is about 90 degrees. The bottom angle is about 65 degrees and the top angle about 25 degrees if I'm measuring it correctly. In your newer video from mid 2022 it looks like you have changed some of these angles. Some of the Boxmaster tools look like you have changed the bottom angle to 40 degrees and noted with a piece of taped marked 40 degrees and 25 degrees on the tape for the top angle. My question is wanting to know if a 40 degree bottom and 25 degree top with the 65 degree included angle is what you are now using and suggest? Thanks for your help, Myles

Another really informative video Sam. Do you ever use a steady-rest setup to lessen the vibration on a bowl? 👍🇺🇸

Sam, nice video. But I have a question about the leather pad used to stabilize the wood. As the wood gets thinner it seems as though walls of a bowl start to flex and actually go out of round while spinning. Do you think that is true and that pushing on the wall helps to dampen that out? Just wanted to get your thoughts on that.

Thanks for the heads up on the NRS. Can you suggest a good angle degree for them? I have a couple of Skews that i would like to change to a scraper. Thanks and look forward to your answers.

Great video. Appreciate your teaching so much. I was wondering if one should be in line with the center (horizontally) when using a bowl scraper whether regular or negative rake scrapers? It looks like you’re a little above center (although it might just be the camera angle). In any case it seems to do a great job the way you do it. Just curious if one is preferable. Thx.

So does the burr form on top of the tool at the grinder or at the bottom? I'm confused. I do love using the NRS.

Is there any difference in using a negative rake or tilting a normal scraper downwards?

Hi great video, Why have you changed to a robust lathe from the powermatic??

Sam, I'm pretty certain that the angle on the top of your NRS is about 165 degrees, not 135 degrees. Your diagram measures 165 degrees and my Boxmaster NRS measures 165 degrees.

Nice one Sam. So, do you use the negative rake scraper level on the toolrest or is it handle up as with a conventional scraper?

Thank goodness that "There are no stupid questions" or I'd be in trouble. I understand the value of the burr, but I've never been quite clear on how you achieve that. Logic tells me that when sharpening, you do the top first, and then grinding the bottom last will leave a burr on the top side where you want it. Is that correct?

Very interesting, I'm a beginning turner & it's a subsection of my woodworking activities. I turn tool handles, draw pulls, little feet & pens, lots of pens. We make a lot of pens for the troops in our club. I'm starting to think about more complicated pen blanks. I recently started looking at boxes I found that I can manage softer woods but the harder Australian woods getting a clean crisp inside bottom was hard. The older blokes in my club consider negative rake scrapers to be well I won't repeat bad language, so I've been using an ordinary scraper with all the problems you described. So I'm going to convert a square-ended scrapper and give it a try and if that works I'll convert an inside scrapper. I mainly use a skew chisel to make pens & have used your technique of using it as a scraper to straighten lines. I thought it was cheating but as the master does the apprentice shall follow. I'm looking forward to watching more of your videos.

Sam what about a round nose NRS - and comments or thoughts on that?

I'm wondering what the advantages/disadvantages are of having 1. both bevels symmetrical; and 2. having the upper bevel be smaller/shorter than the bottom bevel. You mentioned that both could be done, and your tools have both types, but you didn't talk about the pros and cons of the two types.

Sam, I am a little confused. You stated the important part was to have and cut with a burr but you took the tool on the acrylic and flipped it then went back to turning. Did it have a burr on both sides?

Greetings, is a skew a negative rake scraper?

the top angle is 165 to 167 degree not 135 you got it all wrong

135 degrees isn't right. As drawn I would say it's more like 155 - 160. 135 would be 45 from the other side since the 2 angles have to add up to 180 and that is not what is pictured. I look at it thus. A normal scraper should be held with a downward tilt of 20 - 25 degrees. If you grind the tilt into the tool and adjust the lower grinding angle to keep that second to the same 70 that you would have on ...... it's quite difficult to explain without diagrams.

Oh yeah, what the heck happened to your fingers !?