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   MStehelin | Jul 24, 2004 01:34am | #1

   Not a clue! But I do use chisels as scrapers all the time. Maybe it is a chisel with a burr?

   Cheers

   Mitt

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   MBL | Jul 24, 2004 07:57pm | #4

   Friend,

   Probably a chissel mounted on a wood block, with the tip of the chissel way towards the front, a-la Stanley no.78 plane.

   One reason for such thing would be to keep the chissel from digging-in as can happen with the hand-held chissel, specially if considerable force is needed to remove what's being scrapped.

   It'd be a self-made item, to fit an existing chissel, would say, but not awfully indispensable, for most.

   -mbl-

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   Patto | Jul 26, 2004 05:45am | #5

   If you grind a chisel at 85 to 90(-) degrees to a height of about 1mm, no burr required but absolutely flat back, you have a tool used to true the bed of wooden planes. This works very well to take fine shavings from end grain where you can't get a block or scraper plane into the space, however make really sure that the edge of the wood is well supported.

   I just bought a piece of 3mm HSS of a useful width (12mm in the last one), ground the edge and fitted a handle. You can use a flat turning scaper (upside down) to try the idea out, but it will probably be too big for most applications.

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   OrchidGuy | Jul 24, 2004 02:39am | #2

   Hi reepenstien,

    A chisel scraper? In wood turning scrapers are used on occasion to clean up tool marks left by a turning gouge, or as a specialty tool such as a bowl scraper used in wooden bowl turning. There is a scraper known as a square end scraper. Ernie Connover in his book "The Lathe Book" states that scrapers can be made from any tool available, he has even sharpened screwdrivers and car springs and used them as scrapers. Perhaps Garrett Hack and Eugene Landon have modified chisels for use as scrapers. Wish I knew more, sorry!

   Those daring young men in their flying machines!

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   AlanWS | Jul 24, 2004 05:39pm | #3

   A google search found this: http://www.toolprice.com/product/6948E

   It's one of the things I might have called a paint scraper, but chisel scraper sounds like a good description.