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There's scrapers and scrapers
By:Jay Babina
Date: 2/2/2011, 8:18 am
In Response To: Re: Strip: dealing with epoxy runs (Allan)

The kind of sharpening that is being refereed to is more for a cabinet scraper which is a thicker hardened piece of steel with a flat corner edge that is sharp. You burnish the edge with a round steel (a screwdriver shaft will do_) and push the corner away forming a bit of a lip that is sharper than it was before. However... for what you want, you can use any of those cheap scrapers with the 4-way replaceable blades. To sharpen it, just file it towards the cutting edge and it will work fine.

Cheap scraper like this will work fine.

http://www.reddevil.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=60_75_76&products_id=839&zenid=mv0paifvh01k2j8hnebdglvou6

I have a Sandivk tungston replaceable blade one and it stays sharp about 800 times longer than regular steel.

like this

http://www.woodworkingshop.com/cgi-bin/0B14D5CF/mac/additmdtl.mac/showItemDetail?loadItem=SK66500

I do like my cabinet scraper blades the best. I have some oldies that are thick and very high quality steel.

Messages In This Thread

Strip: dealing with epoxy runs
Todd O -- 2/1/2011, 2:47 pm
Re: Strip: dealing with epoxy runs
Mike Savage -- 2/1/2011, 3:01 pm
Re: Strip: dealing with epoxy runs
Allan -- 2/1/2011, 3:52 pm
Re: Strip: dealing with epoxy runs
Todd O -- 2/1/2011, 9:27 pm
Re: Strip: dealing with epoxy runs
Allan -- 2/1/2011, 10:02 pm
Re: Strip: dealing with epoxy runs
Todd O -- 2/1/2011, 10:44 pm
Re: Strip: dealing with epoxy runs
Allan -- 2/1/2011, 10:59 pm
Re: Strip: dealing with epoxy runs
Bill Hamm -- 2/2/2011, 1:51 am
There's scrapers and scrapers
Jay Babina -- 2/2/2011, 8:18 am
Re: Strip: dealing with epoxy runs
Charlie -- 2/1/2011, 3:57 pm
Re: Strip: dealing with epoxy runs *PIC*
Tony Olsen -- 2/1/2011, 6:07 pm
Re: Strip: dealing with epoxy runs
Bill Hamm -- 2/2/2011, 1:52 am
Re: Strip: dealing with epoxy runs
Todd O -- 2/2/2011, 2:52 pm
Re: Strip: dealing with epoxy runs
Bill Hamm -- 2/2/2011, 3:53 pm
Re: Strip: dealing with epoxy runs
Todd O -- 2/2/2011, 8:57 pm
Re: Strip: dealing with epoxy runs
Bill Hamm -- 2/3/2011, 2:37 am
Re: Strip: dealing with epoxy runs
Todd O -- 2/3/2011, 10:45 am
Re: Strip: dealing with epoxy runs
Bill Hamm -- 2/3/2011, 11:26 am
Re: Strip: dealing with epoxy runs
Eric -- 2/2/2011, 1:21 pm
Re: Strip: dealing with epoxy runs
Etienne Muller - ireland -- 2/3/2011, 3:14 pm
epoxy runs - a better alternative
mick allen -- 2/4/2011, 9:41 pm