Day 48, a Kunz Cabinet Scraper
A tool that you don't see a lot in your average Home Depot is a cabinet scraper, sometimes called a card scraper. In its most basic form, it's just piece of steel that can be used to smooth or remove finish from a piece of wood by dragging it across the surface. In a lot of modern work, they have been replaced by sanders, but a scraper can leave a surface with a smoother surface than sanding. It also generates fine shavings rather than wood dust.
They aren't "sharp" in the conventional sense. It's a piece of thin steel that is actually filed to be a square edge. A honing steel is then used to put a clean sharp burr along the edge, which serves as the cutting edge. Rather than demonstrate my own relative ignorance on the subject, I'll link a couple of videos below.
First is a nice video from the Wood by Wright channel:
And another by the legendary Paul Sellers demonstrating how he preps the card scraper.
This particular scraper is a Kunz No. 80, probably of modern manufacture. I believe that is an attempt at a copy of earlier Stanley and Record models. The Stanley No. 80 was first manufactured back in 1898, and was continued to be made until 1984.
As it happens, Paul Sellers did a review of this particular model on his website back in 2015, and seemed to be rather lukewarm on it. Feel free to read his comments.
I haven't really used this in earnest yet, as I have not yet mastered the necessary sharpening skills, but it sits on my shelf, ready for the right project to push me along.
Hope you all are having a good week.