I'm glad to hear that, Dick. What were you touching up with the mesh? I've found that scrapers give me a better-than-400 grit finish while the meshes I've bought are usually 150 grit. I touch up with 320 or
400 paper.-- I?ve long been passionate about protecting and expanding democracy, which is really the only viable mechanism to preserve liberty and distribute power from kings to the rest of us. --George Farah
The front edge of my piece is narrower than the scraper (3 1/4"). I was worried about an inadvertent gouge in one of the two edges of the piece.
What I have learned about forming the burr is to have a light touch, both when you burnish the flats on the scraper to roll out the steel, and when you actually roll the burr. You'd think a bigger hook would do a faster job but, not really.
Also your burnisher needs to be hard and smooth. Harder than the scraper, and some scrapers today are made out of very hard metal, more so than in the past. I just tried using a solid carbide router bit as a burnisher, it worked better than my Hock burnisher on my harder steel scrapers.
How heavy are the fumes? What makes gasoline suicide to use indoors is its weight, which makes the fumes pool and concentrate in low areas.
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