Scriber

[Christophe Mineau]

Yet another hack :


I hijacked a nice oyster knife I found by chance in a store to make a wood scriber for a right handed woodworker.
I simply reground the stainless steel blade to make it sharp, and single edge, in order to be able to follow a ruler or a square for instance.

Here are the anthropometric pictures :



On the following picture, you can see I left the left side flat.
Notice the little bee, this cheap oyster knife was probably a Chinese forgery of a famous French knife trademark (Laguiole)





Example, with a square, scribing the edges of a tenon on endgrain ...

[kbalch]

Thanks Christophe! I've added your Scriber to our Metalworking and Measuring and Marking categories, as well as to your builder page: Christophe Mineau's Homemade Tools. Your receipt:

Scriber by Christophe Mineau

tags: handle, grinding, hand tools

[Captainleeward]

Hi christophe. Great knife what is a anthropometric picture?

[Hotz]

what is a anthropometric picture?

I also curious to know... Nice job...

[Christophe Mineau]

Hi , sorry, probably a bad translation from French,
you know, this kind of photos, with face, profile, ...


It is what the three first photos reminded me, but it's a bad joke...
sorry about that.

[Captainleeward]

Hi Christophe, Yes a good explanation, Thanks. :O)