My dry scraper(with photos)
Here is my just finished dry scraper.The multi-tool is four inches long to give you an idea of size. The blade is made of an old framing squar that is 1/8 inch steel. You can still see the numbers on...
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The only real problem that may come up with your tool is that in order to work well a dry scraper must be RAZOR sharp. The scarier the better. I don't know how good the steel is that you used for your...
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Well, I hate to keep asking this question, but what did the Indians do if they had to have such razor sharp edges? Replaceable stone blades? Check out this tool that I saw in an archaeological museum...
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Well Yeti, these are my thoughts on your question.I think that many hides were wet scraped using bone scrapers. It's easily done. I give my students a choice of bone or steel when I teach. I've done...
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Having started off as a dry scraper and having made a few scrapers I can tell you a few things about that tool. First, your wrapping is going to loosen up and give you a fit. Attatching the blade is...
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No scraper for the bison or deerskins? Easy solution, don't fret! Introducing the "WonderBar Scraper"..an inexpensive tool, ideally weighted, just the right width and angle, great flat surface for...
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OK thanks for all the replies. Osage orange is the next best thing I can get to antler. Osage is very dense and is heavy but I am sure caribue antler is heavyer. John Mcpherson uses osage in his book...
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Between Y and myself we've probably tanned over 1,000 skins. I know he wet scrapes deer.Mcphersons book was written before people rediscovered the techniques that make wet scrape much easier. You can...
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A very secure, but not very esthetically pleasing way to secure your blade to your handle, is with a hose clamp. I know more than one very experienced dry scraper who has a beautiful elk antler handle...
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Mikael, Go ahead and just use what ever you got. That is the way the old folks did. They didn't just run out buy or trade they used what they had on hand. Use what you got but round it of a bit to...
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I agree with Mike, absolutely go for it. Tanning hides is something to be experienced. Use what you got and get into it. Many things will become apparent to you just from trying it. You will learn a...
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YTBM, you bet just doing it will teach you a heck of a lot. I would say no matter what method you use, you you need as much elbow grease as you can come up with to get velvet soft stuff. I live on the...
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Wow, I'd love to find one of those. Could be skin scrapers.I never really knew what a stone dryscraper blade would look like until I met this archaeologist doing the dig at the Cypress Hills in S....
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Yesterday I filed the scraper to a less poitny shape. I streached a small deer hide this morning and scraped all the fat and meat off of the hide. I did not resharpen the blade or retie the blade wile...
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Right on! Keep us posted.For fleshing the sharpness is not really as much of an issue. Dry scraping the hair and grain is where the sharpness becomes more important. Keep your file and a stone handy...
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