Talk:Card scraper

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I took out a sentence because I don't know what it means, but it doesn't look appropriate for the article...

Card scrapers can also be used to remove the finish from old furniture surfaces. Once the technique is mastered, large fluffy shavings with extremely unlikely tearout problems can be made. Witness David Marks on Woodworks from DIY network.

~ Booyabazooka 19:18, 11 Sep 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Card scrapers with "burr already properly turned"

"Alternatively, some vendors of wood working tools sell card scrapers with the burr already properly turned."

I'm not disputing that these exist, although I haven't come across them. I find myself wondering how feasible this idea is, given that the burr on a card scraper does not last all that long before it needs to be recreated, so even if you bought a scraper that had a ready to cut burr on it, you would still need to learn how to turn the burr at some point, unless you just throw them away and buy new ones, which would be silly. I know of scrapers such as the Scarsten which does not need the edge to be tuned, but it is a different principle to the card scraper and it has disposable blades. Can anyone shed any light? SilentC 04:37, 31 July 2006 (UTC)