There's no tool like a scraper blade for smoothing guitar sides, bodies and fingerboards, and scrapers are better than sandpaper for trimming installed bindings. After burnishing (use our Scraper Burnisher), the edges on these .028" (0.7mm) thick stainless steel scrapers leave wood surfaces ultra-smooth, with no heat build-up to soften plastic trim materials.
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The convex, straight and concave edges match a variety of surfaces, and the edges can be filed, squared and reburnished many times.
Scraping, not sanding, to prepare wood for finishing
In this issue:
Dan Erlewine shows why he uses scraper blades instead of sandpaper for the final smoothing before the finish goes on a guitar.
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