I need a RR tool

[kaintuck]

Please help me.....I suffer from CRS and have misplaced to address of where I can buy one of those RR reducing tools. It's the plate you put in a vise and draw a RR down to size, leaving a bulged end.....
Thank you,
Marc

[smylee grouch]

I got one from Acer on this fourm.

[bob in the woods]

Buy one from Acer, or, just make your own. They are easy to make.

[Bill-52]

I would recommend Acer's (Tom Curran) tool.  Works great.  I even used it recently to reduce the finished ramrod for the brass tip.

http://thosmachine.wordpress.com/2009/07/19/ramrod-scraper/

[kaintuck]

Thanks fellas!
Marc

[cunninmp]

kaintuck,
I also got mine from Tom. Best $25.00 I ever spent.
Just finished my third ramrod with it.
Mike C.
Groveland, CA

[Mark Elliott]

I made a couple of those for myself.   It is well worth giving Tom $25 to avoid the trouble of making it yourself.  I don't know about the experience of others,  but the last one I made was the size of my palm.   I found it was a lot less work to move the the scraper than move the ramrod.  In other words,  use the scraper like a normal scraper.    I now just sit on one of my little saw benches, listen to music, and scrape down my ramrods in a leisurely manner in about the same amount of time and perhaps with better results.    The thing is, that I can feel the cutting edge better with the scraper in my hand and maintain the proper angle to get a productive cut without binding.   Just something to try.   

[bob in the woods]

Mark, that is exactly the way I do it !    I thought I was  using it incorrectly, so didn't mention it ; even though I find it so much easier to get usable ramrods with the hand held method       I do so much work with hand held scrapers, it just feels more familiar .

[rsells]

I made one of these tools years ago and used it a long time holding the scraper in a vice and pulling the ramrod through it.  One day I needed to work a small spot down a bit on a rod and used the scraper in my hand.  It was much easier and I have used the scraper held in my hand since that time. 
                                             Roger Sells

[A.Merrill]

      Hand held is the way to go......    AL

[Rich]

Woodcraft sells a round scrapper. It's a scrapper thickness disk with 1/2 round holes around the edge. You can use it by hand or clamp it in a vise and pull the rod through.

[SR James]

What Rich said. That's what I use, clamped in a vise. Works great.