Putty Knife Fine Scraper

[rdesigns]

Most of us know and use cabinet scrapers, but for years I have also used a stiff-bladed putty knife as a very effective and easily-sharpened scraper.

The 1-1/2" width seems most useful. You sharpen it with a mill file. Lay the file on the bench with the tang against a stop (no handle on the file), then firmly and smoothly run the end of the putty knife along the file's length--you orient the file parallel to the length of the file, NOT perpendicular to it, and keep the putty knife vertical so that you create edges that are square to flat of the blade. Fast. Easy.

Two or three good smooth passes will do it. No need to try forming a burr as you would with a cabinet scraper.

In use, you can push it, keeping the angle low, or you can pull it, using the about the same angle as you would with a cabinet scraper--nothing complicated about it.

Try it--I guarantee you'll love it.

 

[ajones]

picture please

 

[rdesigns]

What? Don't they call it a putty knife in the UK?

 

[Jesse Cloud]

Interesting idea.  I remember reading about a guy who used shards of broken glass as a scraper, after duct taping the side he would hold.  The brilliant part was that they never had to be sharpened...

 

[Deansocial]

putty knife to me goes to a point like
http://www.thesitebox.com/faithfull/professional-putty-knife-38mm-90511071.aspx

and the others that are called putty knifes are really flexible so i guess over here it would be a scraper

 

[AlexThePalex]

putty knife to me goes to a point like
http://www.thesitebox.com/faithfull/professional-putty-knife-38mm-90511071.aspx

and the others that are called putty knifes are really flexible so i guess over here it would be a scraper

So what do you call this then:

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[tbellemare]

Putty Knives

Tom

 

[Deansocial]

putty knife to me goes to a point like
http://www.thesitebox.com/faithfull/professional-putty-knife-38mm-90511071.aspx

and the others that are called putty knifes are really flexible so i guess over here it would be a scraper

So what do you call this then:

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if its still a scraper and if its flexible a filling knife

 

[jmbfestool]

What Dean said Alex!  Deans link is putty knife and the one you are showing if filling knife

JMB

 

[AlexThePalex]

Fascinating to see all these little differences between English English and American English. Since the one with the point is used for windows, am I correct to assume that you call the stuff you use to set a window putty and all other fillers, like for wood, something else in England? And Americans just call it all putty?

 

[tbellemare]

Filling knife sounds like something a dentist would use...

Tom

 

[jmbfestool]

Filling knife sounds like something a dentist would use...

Tom

Well yeah they use some kind of filler to fill the holes in your teeth   and we use wood filler to fill holes in wood.  So suppose they can use the same tools as us  [tongue]

 

[Ken Nagrod]

We use the term "fillers" for things as well.  Putty we use like you said for windows and there's plumbers putty for fixtures, sinks, drains.  There's Silly Putty which is very popular here.

 

[jmbfestool]

Fascinating to see all these little differences between English English and American English. Since the one with the point is used for windows, am I correct to assume that you call the stuff you use to set a window putty and all other fillers, like for wood, something else in England? And Americans just call it all putty?

Putty knife for Putty as the shape helps to cut the excess putty!  The filling knife is only used for (well can be used for anything you like really)  normal fillers  wood fillers plaster etc

JMB

 

[Ken Nagrod]

putty knife to me goes to a point like
http://www.thesitebox.com/faithfull/professional-putty-knife-38mm-90511071.aspx

and the others that are called putty knifes are really flexible so i guess over here it would be a scraper

So what do you call this then:

[attachimg=1]

if its still a scraper and if its flexible a filling knife

Scrapers that look similar are usually larger than putty knives and have a thicker blade with a beveled edge.  At least that's what I'm used to seeing here.

 

[Deansocial]

putty knife to me goes to a point like
http://www.thesitebox.com/faithfull/professional-putty-knife-38mm-90511071.aspx

and the others that are called putty knifes are really flexible so i guess over here it would be a scraper

So what do you call this then:

[attachimg=1]

if its still a scraper and if its flexible a filling knife

Scrapers that look similar are usually larger than putty knives and have a thicker blade with a beveled edge.  At least that's what I'm used to seeing here.

yeah scraper is thicker but here they are 1" upwards

 

[jmbfestool]

putty knife to me goes to a point like
http://www.thesitebox.com/faithfull/professional-putty-knife-38mm-90511071.aspx

and the others that are called putty knifes are really flexible so i guess over here it would be a scraper

So what do you call this then:

[attachimg=1]

if its still a scraper and if its flexible a filling knife

Scrapers that look similar are usually larger than putty knives and have a thicker blade with a beveled edge.  At least that's what I'm used to seeing here.

YEah scrapers are normally thicker but not always have a beveled edge though.

 

[tbellemare]

I'm confused about what is called putty in the UK.

I have 2 putty knives, both are about 3" - 3.5" wide and look like the link I added above. Both have been used to putty or glaze windows. Both have also been used with caulking, wood filler, spackling, etc.

So you would call them filling knives?

Tom

I think Silly Putty is popular for a good reason, the name reflects accurately a lot of what occurs here...

 

[Deansocial]

I'm confused about what is called putty in the UK.

I have 2 putty knives, both are about 3" - 3.5" wide and look like the link I added above. Both have been used to putty or glaze windows. Both have also been used with caulking, wood filler, spackling, etc.

So you would call them filling knives?

Tom

I think Silly Putty is popular for a good reason, the name reflects accurately a lot of what occurs here...

i would call them filling knifes to use with filler

a putty knife(with the point) i would use with putty

 

[Ken Nagrod]

Silly Putty was actually the earliest form of "copy and paste".  Remember using it on news print?