7/8" Long & Strong Curved NEG Rake Scraper

The best made and at a competitive price. Outstanding tool and value.

Posted by John Hammonds on Sep 16th 2020

Can a scraper be a functional, well-engineered work of art? This one is. A bit "over the top" for a mere scraper? Perhaps. I use scrapers to clean up the inside of a bowl and to finish the bottom of end-turned vessels ( I don't do tiny openings). I needed a hefty scraper that wasn't too wide to get to the bottom of deeper vessels, especially when I couldn't get one of my rests in far enough. I have now used this scraper on vessels, scraping the end grain with full overhang of the tool and found it to be amazingly stable. Of course, I do stick it in a hefty OneWay handle and that helps, but the thickness of this scraper makes a huge difference. Beyond that, I've got scrapers in M2 and A10 from various makers and all of them came with sharp edged sides ... where the tool hits the rest. D-Way puts a nice radius on the corners of all their tools ... the only sharp edge is the cutting edge. Just beautiful. And all their tools come with a sharp cutting edge. I'm no expert sharpener and I have to work at it to get my D-Way tools as sharp as they came. In this case the burr that came on this tool cut nice shavings and lasted about twice as long as the ones I put on. As Dave says in one of his videos ... "It'll be sharp once anyway". I think he was talking to me.