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Hand scraper with carbide blade, Jarrah handle, patterned after the one from an old Stefan Gotteswinter video. Machine tool rebuilding here I come!

A fun project for a rainy Sunday last weekend, then made the handle this evening. Nice to have it done (except the blade), I've had the material ready for ages.

Process photos of making the clamp. Both sides have a step to locate the blade, the clamp is bent down on the other end to pivot around. Bonus cameo from my recreation of the tap handle from ToT's Operation: Tap Wrench video

Some more process photos of milling the tang and roughing the handle blank. The timber is Jarrah, native to Western Australia, tool marks left in from the spokeshave and knife for texture.

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I made Klang!

With magnets for wear as a lapel pin. Idk anything about Pokemon but he seems cool

The two smaller gears were machined from aluminium, finished by hand.

The rough shapes of the larger gear, the insert on the face of one small gear and the bracket were LASER cut from steel and the engravings marked out. They were machined or filed to final shape and the marks engraved deeper with a rotary tool.

There are two small dome ended shafts which hold the gears and some brass bushings and washers which were all turned.

Everything was press fit together and the bracket bent to final shape

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Want someone to Love me