A hard&fast ideologue with his shirt stuffed full of certainty concerning the best this or that is always a fine beast with whom to interlocute. One can only hope that he can get as good as he gives!
Now then, about this scraping rather than sanding…
Well, a scraper can give a good finish and requires only 36 hours of practice to get right - no scallops, digs, corner gouges and so forth. Then it takes only another 50 hours or so to scrape all the surfaces of, say, a refectory table. And will the furniture user notice that the item has been scraped not sanded, as he plonks down his hot wet mug upon the surface then dribbles gravy on it? No.
Sander it is then.
Or a large heavy plane. These can give that “hand of the maker” finish, which is nice but witnessing the plane actions here and there. Again, the user rarely notices; or complains if he does.
In wore hoose we have some Albert Jeffries furniture. He was apprenticed to the mouseman and thus employs the adze method of flattening wood into planks of all sizes, including the small ones for chair legs and such. No sanding, no planning and no scraping - just the practiced swing of the crude but sharp scalloped blade atween one’s legs.
But that takes 1057 hours of practice to do right, as well as the potential sacrifice of a foot… So I’ll stick with the planes then. And the motorised sanders.
Lataxe, traditionalist but in a modern way.
