Scrapers

Buy: from Lee Valley.
Make: from used Japanese-type saw blades.

-- Randy (P), rustic wood crafts, Morning View, Kentucky

I got Lie-Nielsen ones from Woodcraft. Pretty cheap, too – probably the only Lie-Nielsen products I’ll ever be able to afford!

-- Eric at http://adventuresinwoodworking.com

woodworkers supply is a good source for a lot tools and hardware. or make them from older quality saw blades

-- What do you learn from being right?

I seem to remember getting mine at Rockler. I got the assortment pack.

-- Gary, East TX -- The longest journey begins with a single step.

I got a couple of assortments from woodcraft. Curved set and a square set.

-- We must guard our enthusiasm as we would our life - James Krenov

I am with Gary on this one. I got the 3 piece assortment pack as well which included a file and burnishing tool.

-- With God's help all things are possible- even woodworking. Woodworking is not just a hobby, it is an (expletive deleted) expensive hobby.

Thanks folks for all of your opinions and thoughts on this. I have some worn Diamond concrete blades a friend gave me several years back. I think I will attempt to cut these and form a few. If I can’t get them cut on the band saw using a metal cutting blade I’ll go and get a set.

-- Jerry, Measure 10 times cut once. Set in the foothills of the Smokey's

I would recommend the Lee Valley scraper for those new to card scrapers. As well as being a good scraper, they also come sharpened, thereby giving a new user a sense of what a sharpened scraper should feel like.

I also like the Lie-Nielsens, which come with one thinner, more flexible scraper that I find useful. (And for $15, you can have the prestige of owning Lie-Nielsen tools :-)) ) I got mine at Woodcraft.

-- If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, who will cut it up into bowl blanks?

Dido, Woodcraft.

-- Doug, Cass City, Michigan

Cabinet makers supplies.

-- Grumpy - "Always look on the bright side of life"- Monty Python

I actually got my first one at HD, made by Stanley.

-- Tom D

lie niesen and woodcraft

-- making sawdust....