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1. 
   Westchester | Nov 07, 2012 05:56am | #1

   Scratch Stock

   I found hacksaw blades to be to hard to cut or grind.  They will not give you much area to sandwich between wood clamps for holding  when creating the profile.  I used an old cut down hand saw blade or a scraper blade with good results.

   SA

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   user-64052 | Nov 07, 2012 10:09am | #2

   the bigger power hacksaw

   blades are h/speed steel and make good cutting tools

   ron

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   roc | Nov 07, 2012 03:01pm | #3

   Forget mild sheet steel. Forget heat treat.

   Mild steel sheet is only case harden-able with an added expense you don't want to invest in.  Trust me.

   To pay somebody to heat treat some other steel that you come up with will be expensive and may take too long to get it back.

   Old hacksaw blade . . .

   Depends on the hacksaw blade.  Good modern blades for a hand held hacksaw will be fairly mild steel with a strip of hardened teeth about as wide as the teeth. These are called bimetal blades.  In a bimetal blade the wide main body of the blade is made of steel that isn't all that great for a scraper; too soft.   As opposed to a blade for a hacksawing machine from back in the day which is what some here will be using which is thicker, wider and hardened throughout the blade.  Pretty much.

   If you have an old wood working handsaw , like a panel saw or key hole saw, you could cut that up and make a blade.  The card scrapers work well if you have one and can spare it, 

   Here is a link with all sorts of options and ways to cut the material and shape it.

   http://forums.finewoodworking.com/fine-woodworking-knots/hand-tools/help-scratch-stocks-how-do-you-cut-blanks

3. 
   Rob_Sp | Nov 09, 2012 07:08am | #4

   Buy a card scraper

   and grind the profile in that.