A Bit of a Rant

I recently purchased a couple of Tracey Owens scrapers made by Henry Taylor. They're expensive at almost £38 each. At that price one should expect that the grinding of the steel would be reasonable. It isn't. I don't expect any cutting tool to be ready to use 'out of the box' but a little effort from the manufacturer certainly doesn't damage their reputation. I nearly returned them. It took me a couple of hours to sand the flat with 80 grit, polish on a twelve inch mdf disk with Flexcut compound, re-grind the bevels and hone with a diamond file.

The scraper on the top is polished prior to grinding the bevel, the bottom is as it came. They now cut as they should. The couple of hours it took me should have paid for one of them!