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#1 posted 383 days ago

Scrapers are actually what got me in to hand tools (still mostly a power tool guy, though). I am a novice with them still, but I don’t put much curve in them at all, but that is usually because I am trying to take light cuts. I would echo the others who have suggested using it by hand first.

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