Scraper insert

[Tom K]

Hi Guys, has anyone got experience with the Veritas scraper insert.

http://www.toolpost.co.uk/pages/Woodwor ... apers.html

I was thinking of chucking one in a spare #4 (I have a few )
Does it make a worthwhile tool?

 

[skelph]

Bought one off ebay a while back. It took me a while to fit it so it stayed in place and get it working but on wild grain it's the cat's whiskers (or maybe the dog's b******s).

I had some pieces of Yew about 20cm long that I was trying to surface but kept suffering from tearout with a smoothing plane - the scraper insert did the job without any tearout at all.

 

[Paul Chapman]

I bought one many years ago. Could never get it to work properly and in the end I gave it away. The bloke I gave it to (who is an experienced user of scrapers) couldn't get it to work well either. I now have the Veritas scraper plane and the #80 style scraper which do really work well.

Cheers :wink:

Paul

 

[woodbloke]

I bought one many years ago. Could never get it to work properly and in the end I gave it away. The bloke I gave it to (who is an experienced user of scrapers) couldn't get it to work well either. I now have the Veritas scraper plane and the #80 style scraper which do really work well.

Cheers :wink:

Paul

Same here, I tried one of those insert thingies and binned it after a while...NFG - Rob

 

[Tom K]

So thats two to one against then....better save my pennies for a proper one :lol:
Thanks for the replies

 

[woodbloke]

So thats two to one against then....better save my pennies for a proper one :lol:
Thanks for the replies

If you're going to do smaller scale work, the LV No80 is the one to go for IMO first of all, it really is head and shoulders better than the original...and I owned two and could never get them to work properly either - Rob

 

[Chris Knight]

Like others, had one and gave it away.