no cabinet scraper

[TheCelticArcher]

What can be used in place of a cabinet scraper since I don't have one.

[mwosborn]

You can pick up a decent quality scraper for around 10 bucks.  If that is not an option you can make your own - several guys have done that using old saw blades.  Or you can use an old big bladed hunting knife if you want.  Good luck.

[Pat B]

A pair of scissors with the rivet popped out...voila, 2 scrapers.

[Don Case]

I use a normally sharpened knife with a straightish blade.

[TheCelticArcher]

ok thanks for the advice i tried to find some scrapers at lowes and home depo like the ones i saw on 3 rivers and lee valley tools but couldn't find any nor did harbor freight have any. I'm making my first bow witch is a red oak board bow like what i saw on poor folk bows.

[soy]

go to lee Valley Tools web site
or Missouri Trading Company

[mikekeswick]

Yes buy the best you can - they are very cheap and in my opion it really isn't worth bothering making your own. You must be able to get them mail order from any number of places. Lie Nielson, veritas, clifton etc all good makes basically you are paying for the hardness. Look for at least Rockwell 50

[chamookman]

I have used all different kinds over the years, but My favorite is still an old Buck fixed blade (110) knife. Bob

[mikekeswick]

I'm always interested in other peoples opion but I just don't understand why people use knives!? You have a thin easily damged/turned edge on a knife? Unless you sharpen it in a funky way!

[dwardo]

I very occasionaly use a sharp penknife as a detail scraper and it works beautifully.
But, as mike says the edge is not designed for it and quickly dulls.
My scraper was a fiver new.

[H Rhodes]

I like using a sharp knife for a scraper.  I have tried store bought scapers, thick pieces of glass, and several different knives until I got a couple that I really like.  I do finer stuff with a little schrade pocket knife and my main wood removal with a broken blade american angler filet knife or an old hickory kitchen knife.  I have to touch them up with a file and whetstone now and then, but you have to sharpen store bought scrapers too.  A sharp knife held at a right angle to your work and used like a scraper will really curl up some wood.  Somebody else mentioned using a buck knife.  I have one of those that makes a good scraper too.  I think you just have to find what works for you.

[osage outlaw]

I made one from an old circular saw blade and I love it.  I cut out a rectangle, smoothed out the edges, and then rolled a bur.  That was several years ago and I haven't had to touch it since.  I use it all the time.  I have a cabinet scraper and I never use it.   

[DuBois]

A pair of scissors with the rivet popped out...voila, 2 scrapers.

I just tried this and it is real good.

[DavidV]

I used to use a broken filet knife but there's a set from Grizzly that's 12 bucks for a set of 3. Their showroom is here in town.

[George Tsoukalas]

I uaes to use an old meat cleaver. Jawge