Now THAT’S a scraper!

[rich pierce]

I picked this up yesterday. Wider than anything we’d use on a gun build but a good model for anyone forging scrapers.

[DanL]

Hardened "Cut" nails are easily forged into miniature versions of that scraper. One can make many sizes and shapes for gun work.

[Mikeh]

         
    Any pictures of the cut nails forged into scrapers?  Thanks  Mikeh

[Dave B]

I could see that being useful if it had a half oct shape. It woul allow for getting right up against the breach inlet.  Cool tool Rich, thanks for sharing

[Daniel Coats]

I'm wondering if it's a hide scraper? Seems pretty wide for wood.

[Hungry Horse]

 My Dad made those out of old chisels for years. He raised Bartlett pears in Northern California, and used those scrapers to scrape blight out of infected pear stumps. Being made out of old chisels they would hold an edge.

Hungry Horse

[rich pierce]

I'm wondering if it's a hide scraper? Seems pretty wide for wood.

Thinking antique paint scraper. Maybe?

[bluenoser]

That's what I was thinking.

[bluenoser]

I just took a closer look.  Isn't the bevel on the wrong side for a scraper intended to be used on the pull stroke? 

[Craig Wilcox]

Would work on either side, depending how you burnish the "hook".  Nice tool, but like others, I'd prefer slimmer.

Gunline, besides having checkering tools, has scrapers for barrel channels in both round and octagon shapes, several sizes.

[rich pierce]

I just took a closer look.  Isn't the bevel on the wrong side for a scraper intended to be used on the pull stroke?

Mebbe so. I was mostly admiring it’s beefy yet sculptural styling, pre-Industrial Revolution in appearance.