143- Scraper Sharpening with William Ng

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During the Greene & Greene coffee table class I attended a few weeks ago, William Ng gave us an impromptu lesson in scraper sharpening. Fortunately I had my Flip Cam at the ready and captured this tutorial for your enjoyment.
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[@tomdenny8507]

Wow, the best description of sharpening a scraper that I have yet to come across. Thank you for making it so clear and simple.

[@mattier3030]

This guy rocks! Everything he is saying makes perfect sense. Great teacher! Thanks

[@fredbrown6757]

Mr. Ng I think you are a genius , I've been watching you for 2 years & I have a master craftsman wood turner trying to teach me to sharpen the card scraper. I worked 2 hrs. this afternoon & still didn't get it sharp. Maybe I'll try it again after church just like you did & see what happens. I love your videos.

[@HarveyWysong]

Very thorough, very understandable. Best presentation I've seen.

[@kensmith2822]

He is such a good teacher. What I wouldn't give to spend a day in the shop with him!

[@MauriceCalis]

Great! Just what I need. I finally got a burnisher and I am anxious to get back to my shop and properly sharpen my card scraper.

[@palewriter1856]

Sensei - thanks for yet another SUPER instructional!!! If I may toss a hint for your consideration - as you are clearly so influentially positioned by your classes and your EweToob exposure - I'd like to point out something that has helped me in my sharpening endeavors: SEEING what you're doing to that edge under a microscope! Clearly YOU know by intuition and experience, but for future demonstration purposes, some sort of super-macro camera or USB-microscope might allow your students to connect the dots quickly. Nothing like TOOLS to make the job easier - unless it's KNOW-HOW - and I gotta say - it's delightful to watch you demonstrate BOTH!

[@ToddAndelin]

this is a fantastic video. really cool sharpening station as well...

[@davesimpson3605]

As always, Ng is amazing.

[@rickbodick6812]

Truly a master!! He reminds me how much I don’t know..... wow!!

[@danielgeng2306]

Mr NG, is amazing!! Great tutorial!

[@jblasls]

Very nice!!!, now I understand how you can achieve the level of skills you own, surrounded by people like William... and I guess many others. I wish here in Mexico I could find someone to learn from. Thanks

[@colincampbell7923]

I've seen a lot of different methods of sharpening a scraper, after searching for a long time I've definitely just found the best way! So easy too 😃

[@mattking3439]

Best scraper sharpening video I've seen.

[@par5endos562]

Thank you thank you thank you! Great video. That is one sweet sharpening setup he has there.

[@JeremyMcMahan]

Fantastic training. Worth a 100x the price to learn! :-)

[@grbroussard]

I clicked on this video by accident. I’m an avid follower! It was funny, I was going to go to the next video but I heard your voice and said to myself “OH SH#t, THIS IS THE MASTER! So I watched. Thanks for posting.

[@mpcoleman]

Wow. Thank you so much for sharing. Looks like I've been doing this wrong for a while. There are many vids on how to sharpen scrapers, but apparently not very well.

[@musamor75]

Thank you for this interesting approach. I enjoyed this. I'll see if I can change my technique 48 years later!

[@TheTranq]

He’s a great teacher

[@MrLeonard55]

He's a great teacher.

[@woodwhisperer]

@ronemarshall Well I wouldn't say any of them are "better" so much as they are just different ways of getting the job done. If you don't like sanding, a scraper and/or a smoothing plane will make you much happier. But a smoothing plane can be problematic on wild or figured grain. That's the beauty of the card scraper; its very easy to use.

[@Dibblah1900]

Wow - Thanks. That was a great demonstration! It's amazing how many bad (as in completely technically incorrect) videos are out there showing "how to use a scraper"

[@bobd.]

I miss Bill's videos, thanks for sharing this Mark.

[@woodwhisperer]

@Mopardude it was during one of his classes, yes.

[@Skandoro]

thanks for sharing that, really detailed :)

[@1997michigan1997M]

beautiful

[@Subsonic-cd2en]

William Ng is clearly an amazing woodworker, and this method obviously produces quick and excellent results for him - but I've tried it his way, and I can't for the life of me get it to scrape shavings! All I get is dust. If I follow a few other methods and get a more obvious burr, then I can get shavings - but as he eluded to, it doesn't last long before needing to be touched up again...

[@Mopardude]

Best explanation of how to properly sharpen card scrapers I have ever seen! Is this of a class he was teaching or something?

[@1959Berre]

The man knows what he talks about. There is no substitute for experience.

[@donmccormick5629]

Amazing

[@woodwhisperer]

@James66860 Pretty sure he has them for sale in his online store. I believe they are Takenoko.

[@josephbreckenridge2966]

Very useful! Thank you!

[@sirgreggins8824]

thanks for this marc and William i knew i was doing something wrong.

[@K8Nicole]

The teacher is a smart man.

[@joewrosenthal00]

Hi, I have never used a burnishing tool to hone my card scraper. I’m tempted to use my old kitchen Wusthof honing steel. What do you think? It’s no longer used in food preparation. Thanks

[@ArtisanConstructionLLC]

very cool!

[@RonMarshallrone]

@TheWoodWhisperer Thanks bud.

[@jimdavis8391]

An old engineers scraper makes a great burnisher.

[@mikebetts2046]

+Jim Davis, I made my burnisher many years ago from a chunk of 1/2" HSS drill rod. I chucked it up in my wood lathe and gave it a very nice polish then stuffed it into a wood handle.Use as large a radius as you can get so as to not be so abrupt in the way it extrudes the steel of the scraper (it is more gentle on the edge).

[@georgelewis8137]

Just when I thought I didn’t have anything else to sharpen. :)

[@myfaceback100]

great video i would love to have a meeting with him he knows what is hi on about i am sure he would show you a few tricks to make the job easer

[@Marrio49]

I followed your instructions to the letter and yet I could not achieve the edge that you get. When I scrape all I get is sawdust not shavings like you. Don't know how you can help but I'd appreciate anything you could offer thank you

[@RonMarshallrone]

Is it better to go ahead and just use a scraper than a hand plane and sander then? I'm getting into woodworking and have bought 4 sanders now and they work great but if there is a quicker and better way then I'm all for getting on the same page with that lol.

[@Tome4kkkk]

On a different note. Did Japanese carpenters traditionally use card scrapers or an equivalent tool?

[@williamwoo1437]

I believe card scraper is a western invention. And William Ng is probably a Chinese American.

[@KimDizzle80]

I'm sorry, what's the name of the small stone you use to create the slurry on the polishing stone? I can't make it out from the video. Fantastic instruction. Thank you!

[@icook74]

Nagura Stone.

[@superdau]

Wow, sometimes youtube is creepy. Just yesterday I had a scraper in my hands. I didn't know how this thing is called (not even in german, which is my native language). I just found it in an old toolbox and used it to remove some glue residues. It did OK (and I doubted if I used it correctly - now looks like I did) but definitely could have been sharper. And what happens today? "Scraper Sharpening" ... 2nd entry in the related list of one of your other videos. Spooky!

[@woodwhisperer]

Really it's the same methodology. But instead of dragging a straight edge against the stone, you're rotating a curved one. It's hard to get every part of the curved scraper sharpened to perfection but you just do your best and then leave the rest to the burnisher.

[@gabedominguez3116]

The master

[@theoriginalpunisher]

So that's what those things do. I've been using mine to get gum off table bottoms.

[@321AUDIO]

nice

[@Gabriel1o1]

wish i knew how to work wood

[@etothejtheta]

SORCERY!

[@fekkapa]

oldschool

[@HeavyDemir]

35 x Oh nice .. 1x oh wrong button :)