The Working of Tortoise Shell

This is a set of three useful craftmanship videos which I was directed to by Emmanuel G. of ArtisanShaving.

A very useful and interesting set of skills for a scale maker and restorer. The heating and steam welding in the videos may? work with horn also. The scraping process used to shape the eyeglasses in videos #2 and #3 is the key to all but the final finishing operations and, even then, on horn and most hard plastic materials I have found that a polished edge scraper will only leave a bit of hand buffing to finish them. A scraper "scrapes" if flat finish honed to a angle less than 90º or it cuts a superfine chip if the edge is burred over to make a microscopic cutting edge. Its shape is to be determined by the job it does. It really is only a piece of metal with a burr rolled onto a polish-honed edge. I used to use a Swaty to do my final honing and a polished drill shank to roll the burr. The back of a Utility throw away blade or even the edge or one half of a scissors makes a good scraper.

The original video did not autoplay the remaining files, so here are links to the series.
#1
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#2
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#3
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Thanks to Emmanuel G.!!
~Richard
A few more handy links:
Sharpening a Cabinet Scraper

Using a Card Scraper - Fine Woodworking Video

Thanks , I'm going to save them to the Work Shop file I have & watch them tomorrow.

Absolutely wonderful video, I love the Japanese they attention to detail never ceases to amaze me, true Artisans.

Jamie

Title fixed. :)
A pleasure to watch this artist.

What an amazing process! I never would have guessed how involved it is. Incredible how the tortoise welds together. Thanks for sharing!