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My wife had a scraper similar to one of these from an old project. I think we've bought them a couple of times over the years, and never used them more than a few seconds before deciding "this sucks, there's got to be a better way". I've always wondered why anyone would use them because they seem like they don't work for crap. I had to scrape the floors around the perimeter of some rooms where we sanded the original wood. I started scraping and thought "maybe the problem is that they need to be sharpened before you use them." So I thought I'd use basically the same process that would be used for some of the other carpentry scrapers, prepare the edge, then create a lip/burr. It took a few times to get a good, consistent edge, but I'm impressed with the results. Sometimes I have to do it twice to get the edge that I want, but I'm getting better. Who knew!