Sometimes I feel i've ridden the short bus most of my life and I'm always late to the party. This may be another example: The English Woodworker showed sharpening a chisel to a 80 degree or so bevel, turning the chisel into a scraper chisel for fine tuning surfaces.

I'm building a toy chest for the grandpeanut that has a frame and panel lid. I have reasonable saw skills and can usually fit the tenons pretty close off the saw with just a few touch ups but of course those few touch ups take a lot longer to do than the sawing. The scraper chisel is perfect for that job I wish I had known about using a scraper chisel years ago. It would have saved a lot of fiddling with router planes and/or taking too much off with chisels or using rasps and floats. It's nice to find a new tool that works.

ken