You know what fresh eyes are, don't you? When you are doing something, and it goes along, it seems like it is done. But when you look at it later you see glaring things that need to be addressed. When I write posts for my other blog, I read them over when they get posted (I'm about 2 weeks up) to check for errors and broken links. I find them. Spell check may get most, but it doesn't check grammar, and just plain weird wording. So if you let it sit around and do something else, and then go back to it, the results should be better. Anyway, here it is as of today:
I took four hours to cut it out (the front radius was done), chop out the turns, and smooth it all up. Most of the time is in getting the lines to be smooth and even. The roughing and undercutting are the easy part. I finally figured out how to get the eye done so it looks right. At least I think it looks right.
I used 4 chisels, the two at the right mainly, and the kinfe to mark the eye out for the small chisel. The one with the short blade is from Japan Woodworker, and is actually a gouge, the inside is dished, and works really well. I might dish in the skinny one next to it. I use it for the last tight turn. The radius inside might help. I bought the two with the long tangs at a garage sale. The steel is easy to sharpen and gets quite sharp. I've found if the steel gets a wire edge easy it gets really sharp. These ones also stay that way longer. That's the kicker. They're a brand called Fuller. I think they're older than the Stanley I put a new handle on at the left. Someone beat on them pretty good over the ages.
I found that leaving the neck square works good. I could keep the saw square when cutting out the turns, and it worked good for cutting out the eye and keeping the turns fairly square. I know many scrolls aren't too square, but I like them square (this is the first one I've actually got right) and with deep undercutting. Without the undercutting they don't look finished to me.
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