Card scraper for pine and spruce.
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Dears,
I made a few cards scrapers out of what I had on hand – an used hand miter saw blade, a so-called-here “japanese paint scrapers”, a putty knife. I managed to sharpen them as it is shown on WM and they work on hard wood and exotic timbers pretty well. But all of them are miserable when working pine or spruce, especially tight grained ones. They just scrape some dust and leave dents…
What can be wrong with them?
Craig is right. Although a scraper can work to some extent, sometimes, on woods like pine, they rarely work well and often just produce dust. Still, once in a while they do work. This is all just my experience (and that of lots of other folk) and I have no idea why they do not work well with pine. I wonder whether they also fail on the softer hardwoods like tulip poplar — thats the wood sold as “poplar” in American big box stores. Never tried.