Scrollers,
I've been a flat-blader for years and when discussions turned to spirals and cleaning up the "fuzzies" I just couldn't relate. My current project is the Leaping Buck from Charles Dearing and I thought I'd try using a spiral someone had given me since the pattern almost 'looked' like it was drawn for spirals. After a few cuts I noticed how terrible the underside looked. Now I understand what everyone was talking about with having to clean it up. I have two questions:
1. Is there a way to avoid all that tearout short of wasting a piece of wood by layering a throw-away piece? Would a piece of cardboard eliminate them?
2. Why in the world would you subject yourself to the torture of having to sand all that away? What am I missing?
Not knocking anyone's blade preference. It just seems like an awful lot of work after the work (cutting) is done.
Bruce
I've been a flat-blader for years and when discussions turned to spirals and cleaning up the "fuzzies" I just couldn't relate. My current project is the Leaping Buck from Charles Dearing and I thought I'd try using a spiral someone had given me since the pattern almost 'looked' like it was drawn for spirals. After a few cuts I noticed how terrible the underside looked. Now I understand what everyone was talking about with having to clean it up. I have two questions:
1. Is there a way to avoid all that tearout short of wasting a piece of wood by layering a throw-away piece? Would a piece of cardboard eliminate them?
2. Why in the world would you subject yourself to the torture of having to sand all that away? What am I missing?
Not knocking anyone's blade preference. It just seems like an awful lot of work after the work (cutting) is done.
Bruce
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