Carbide stays sharper longer whereas high speed steel is easily sharpened, can be readily sharped t the angle suitable to the application, sharpens sharper than carbide but, doesn't hold long. Carbide is usually professionally sharpened. On some high speed steel you can also get a good burr on. I use steel for vigorous applications. Pick your weapon...keep it sharp. And use what you are used to if it's working for you. Hippy New Year to all you long-haired greybeards... DL . On 12/30/2010 7:33 AM, Nick Schade wrote: > I have always been underwhelmed by the carbide scrapers. Each time I pick mine up I think, this is going to be just the ticket for the job and I usually put it back down and grab a steel scraper instead. I found these http://www.amazon.com/Paint-scraper-heavy-silent-remover/dp/B0007UO0ZY/ to be very good. I can get them sharper than the carbide with a file. They will pull up a nice smooth shaving in epoxy. I use the carbide when there is glass in the mix because they don't dull as quickly. I'm with Nick on this, mostly, despite my suggestion Mark get a carbide scraper. Probably Nick and I came up "old school," and learned how to maintain a steel scraper's edge(s), warping it when needed to fair in a transition, etc. But, like he says, any resin that has glass or silica in it will dull a steel scraper edge very quickly. Mark, you really need both. Once you get the hang of using scrapers, they will really speed up working with cured epoxy. They also look cool in photos. -- Dave Kruger Astoria, OR . *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Thu Dec 30 2010 - 23:06:41 PST
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