On 2018-03-16 3:52 PM, Claudio DeLorenzi wrote:
> Thicker blades are totally different and much more difficult (for me 
> anyways).  Thin blades (less the 40 or 50 thou) are easiest to do, 
> provided you have good steel.  I like the really super thin scrapers I 
> got from Lee Valley in their kit or set of card scrapers.  The 
> thinnest one in the set is about 9 thou, and it's perfect for doing 
> what Scott described with shapes because you can easily curl it over 
> to do rounded shapes without having to cut the blade.  The most common 
> sizes you find are about 25 to 30 thousandths of an inch in thickness.

For sure. Some time in the 70s I bought several of the Sandvik card 
scrapers. I liked them so much, I tried to get more, but they were no 
longer available. Then I  bought some other thicker ones ( Record or 
Marples maybe? ), but have never liked them as much. Ditto for the 
super-thin LV scrapers. They're flexible to a fault when it comes to 
flat surfaces. They all take a good edge, but I still prefer the Sandviks.

Don

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