Hey, John,

I think that would work, too. I like it this way only because it's  
really easy to know the point of the knife is fully at the back of  
the socket. You don't have to worry about tilting the knife over to  
get the point back there. In short, you can be a little bit more  
careless. But a pointed blade would certainly work -- that's what I  
used until I made this one.

--Bob in Eugene

John wonders in reply:

Is the scraper blade too thin to make a single bevel knife with a point
shap ed like the Japanese knife in the photo? It would seem that with
such an arrangement all you would have to do is to rotate the blade 180
degrees to mark the other side of a dovetail. Just wondering if the
material is too thin to do that.

Cheers, John
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