Originally Posted by
carlgrover
My favorite is a wood working chisel in various widths. Very handy to use as a scraper and handy for cleaning out inside corners, excess glue, etc. Also great to rough out a shape like a wingtip.
For those of you who have metal tools, fixtures, jigs, etc. that are rusting a little, get a can of Johnson's paste wax and wax them every now and then. You can scrub off the rust with a scotch brite pad.
carl
Being a long time woodworker, I also use my Marples chisels fairly often on models. But with soft balsa, they have to be quite sharp, or they make a real mess of the wood. And my Flexcut carving knife works wonders (waaaaay better than an X-Acto) for carving wingtips and such. Also, a cabinet scraper can come in real handy sometimes, on harder balsa and any plywood.
I wish those little tablesaws weren't so darn expensive. I am on a very fixed income, otherwise I would definitely have one.