The difficulty I have had in setting a cabinet scaper blade has made its use a chore. Even when I pressed the blade downward on a flat surface while securing the 2 set screws it barely caught most of the time. Elevating the leading edge of the scraper with a piece of typing paper sometimes helped, but the increased blade projection might make the scraper catch excessively. Today, trying to scrape glue lines of a thin panel, I used a small polyurethane dead blow hammer to whack the blade while it was secured and resting on the workpiece. I got a controlled shaving which by estimate may have been only a few thousands (inch) thick and effective wood removal with no stutter. It worked every time and the hammer did not damage either of the 2 scraping edges.
If you own a cabinet scraper and wonder why, try this variation.