Nice tutorial MrRick, quite detailed. I like scrapers too, find them very useful. I use them to remove small dents & dings, I always run them down the glue line on panels - they remove the glue squeeze out and level any minor differences between boards as I don't use dowels or biscuits, and they excel on difficult boards where a smoothing plane creates grain tear out. I'm going to have to try your method of creating a burr, my method seems to dull rather quickly. Thanks.
Good write up. I love my scrapers, such awesome tools. It some doing to figure out how to sharpen them when I started using them. Hopefully your write up saves someone else the headache!
Ryan/// ~sigh~ I blew up another bowl. Moke told me "I made the inside bigger than the outside".
My attitude is if it takes longer then sharpening my chisels (which is pretty quick) then it's not worth it. My process as outlined is pretty fast. Actually once you get the hang of it... it's really more like 5 minutes. I love them too. I hardly use sandpaper anymore. Between my hand planes and scrapers it's the best. You can't beat it.
