On 10/4/08 12:54 PM, "Ken of Bend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Do people really use glass? Scott mentioned that to me and I
> got goose bumps and conjured up images of shards of glass sticking out
> of my juggler vein. It might just be me.
>
Many years ago I met an old (not obviously scarred) violin maker who
swore by using glass for scraping. He told me he would take a window pane
and let it fall to the ground to make his scrapers, and was thus able to get
a good variety of curvatures necessary for violin top and back profiling.
Glass is pretty hard and will its retain its sharpness for a while. I'd
practice on a dummy wheel first.
Regards,
Leonard Williams
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