A handy thing, the Scratch Stock. (Recycled Jarrah Cabinet, Part 4)
The big jarrah cabinet I am making will bear a number of features borrowed from a couple of antiques which share the same room the finished cabinet will reside in. It's a nice way of making the 3 pieces of furniture sit together nicely. One of these features will be the front edge profile of the top section, the verticals and the shelves. I am seeking to create a close match to the tall antique sideboard in the room. The profile is like a pair of parallel lines, almost like a pair of reeds along each edge of the face. The edge profile on the tall antique sideboard. This is what I aim to match. Creating an edge profile like this would have been traditionally done with either a specially shaped plane iron, in a wooden moulding plane - or it would have been done with a Scratch Stock. These are sometimes also referred to as Beading Tools. Scratch Stocks are essentially just shaped scrapers, set in a wooden holder which determines the dimensions of the profile an...