I roll cutting burrs on my cabinet scrapers. Like Tom, when starting from scratch, or if I let it get too dull, I square the edges of the scraper, with a file if need be, but then with increasingly finer stones on all three 'sides' of each edge, then burnish/polish about 1/2" of the flat surface near the edge (where the stone ran) with the tip of the burnisher with a few drops of honing oil, then put it vertical in the vice and roll a burr on each side. All that setup work isn't necessary every time. Often, the burr can just be rolled again with a few strokes of the burnisher. The full Monte only takes a few more minutes though, and when needed, is done to ensure the cutting edge is all sharp, smooth, no grooves or nicks before the burr is rolled over, which means a smoother wood surface in the end. I'm careful they don't touch any other steel and they last a long time before I have to do anything to them... even when most of the work I do is on osage. And yes, properly sharpened scrapers will take fine, long ribbons of wood off like other cutting tools. If it starts to make dust instead of ribbons, it's past time to sharpen.
