I decided I had too many square card scrapers and tried to cut one of them up the other day to try making scratch stocks.
Long story short, I was disappointed with a dremel's speed -- maybe it's just the particular wheel I was using or my technique -- and I ended up using a bimetal hacksaw blade to cut it. Still, making a five inch cut with that is a lot of work. Supposedly the scraper was 50 HRC, 0.032".
Anyone have any methods they like that are easy and ideally not super loud? I'm mostly interested in making scratch stocks, recycling saws into scrapers, etc at this point, but also stuff like cutting up a saw plate to make a kerfing plane blade. I might eventually try making a new saw plate out of spring steel stock but that's far in the future.
Long story short, I was disappointed with a dremel's speed -- maybe it's just the particular wheel I was using or my technique -- and I ended up using a bimetal hacksaw blade to cut it. Still, making a five inch cut with that is a lot of work. Supposedly the scraper was 50 HRC, 0.032".
Anyone have any methods they like that are easy and ideally not super loud? I'm mostly interested in making scratch stocks, recycling saws into scrapers, etc at this point, but also stuff like cutting up a saw plate to make a kerfing plane blade. I might eventually try making a new saw plate out of spring steel stock but that's far in the future.