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Quangsheng Flat Bottomed Spokeshave (Bronze)
Spokeshaves are, in essence, very short soled planes for working curved surfaces. Used for refining convex, biconvex, slightly concave, and concave/convex surfaces after initial shaping with the bandsaw and rasps. Spokeshaves are lovely tools to use, especially when you are really ‘in the zone’ as you need to be very aware of the grain to get the best from them. Always work with the grain, on a straight grained piece of timber this means working towards the centre of concave shapes and away from the centre of convex ones – i.e. always going downhill. This delightful 10-1/2’’ (overall length) ‘shave is cast from bronze with a T10 iron hardened to RC60-63. An interesting fact I learned recently is that the hardening and annealing processes for bronze are opposite to those of iron and steel. To harden bronze you warm it up and allow it to cool slowly and to soften it you cool it rapidly in a quench.
Price:
£39.50 (Incl. VAT)
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