Good morning,

Does anyone still use Skarsten (or similar) scrapers? I have one 35 mm and two 62 mm ones.
Here in Luxembourg, compatible spare blades (made by a company called HaWe) are sold in Hornbach (a German chain of home improvement stores).
I tried to scrape old paint from a wooden post, using a brand new blade, and I got a lot of horrible screeching sounds and quite slow progress.
I then used an old "beater" German jack plane to quickly get rid of the paint, this worked much better.
I expect I might have been using the scraper wrongly? I'd like to hear a good explanation of their usage, and how to file (resharpen) the blade.

I'd also like to find a good quality scan/photo of the original instructions. The best I could find on the internet is this, which is partially readable, and the sharpening instruction is rather clear:

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Thanks
Gene