Megan Fitzpatrick and I have spent the last couple days getting a huge batch of Crucible Card Scrapers finished and packaged up. And today we sent off nearly 700 of them to the warehouse.
I’d like to thank everyone in our supply chain – from the waterjet cutter to our machine shop to our magnet vendor – for busting hump to get these done. But mostly I’d like to thank Megan for helping me plow through QC, assembly and packaging today.
We think these scrapers are the cat’s pajamas. They are easy to sharpen and require little thumb pressure to produce beautiful shavings.
Note that the logo applied to the scrapers is a repositionable magnet and not a sticker. Hence they are a little crooked and off-center. You can satisfy your OCD to the max as the magnets are a precisely shrunk shape from my CAD drawings of the scraper.
Anyway, they are available now for shipment – $20 plus domestic shipping. You can read all about them (and how to sharpen them) here.
— Christopher Schwarz
P.S. Brendan Gaffney is working on a huge batch of lump hammers that we hope to finish next week. Details, as always, on our Instagram account.
I don’t mean to pry too deeply into personnel matters, but I don’t think I’ve heard Raney’s name mentioned recently. Is he okay?
May I ask why you can’t, or won’t ship to Canada? I would like to order one of these but your website order form will not let me.
Thanks, Garth
We are too small to ship to Canada (and not burn money). We will be offering this tool to the retail network for Lost At Press as soon as we can satisfy the initial demand.
You can use a mail forwarding service. It works like a charm. Just ask us Norwegians.
The stickers are proportional in size to the scrapers — when new. As the scrapers are sharpened, the magnets will grow closer to the long edges, and appear further from the short ends. Did you even take this gradual lessening of proportionality into account?
I didn’t think so.
If you send in a a CAD drawing of your scraper at the end of each year, we will issue you a magnet that is proportional to the wear you have experienced.
Now that’s what I call service.
Can you teach me how to make a CAD drawing?
1) Look in mirror.
2) Draw what you see.
3) You now own a drawing of a cad.
4) you asked for it. 😉
Can I pick one up on Saturday?
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Hi Joseph,
For now we are sending all the stock to our Indianapolis warehouse to fulfill that demand. After we get that filled, we’ll carry it at the storefront. So I’m afraid that no, we don’t have any at the storefront yet.
Glad to know, pbrobablie……ground blade to even it up lol…
Thank you for making these available again. I thought we would have to go a few months. We appreciate your hard work. Cheers!
Is it just me or does that last photo look suspicious…
I thought it was an evidence photo from the Pablo Escobar trial.
I saw in an earlier post that you were including the magnet to help with the heat generated by scraping. Does the magnet act as a heat sink or and insulator? I guess I’m a little confused about how it works.
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tried these out tonight on some stubborn maple…worked like a dream. opened envelope, three passes with the burnisher on each edge, best shavings I’ve ever gotten from a scraper…sorry Lie-Nielsen scrapers…you might be a glue drip duty for a while…
John L: Magnet insulates fingers from the heat, BTW
Thanks, kind of what I thought.
Thanks for mentioning in the product description at Crucible Tools that you used a water jet. I had wondered how so many scrapers could be made so quickly. Yesterday, I came across this image showing flashlight pocket clips cut by water jet:
https://darksucks.com/products/hds-titanium-clip
If you decide to switch to something more dramatic:
Video (1 min. 41 sec.) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYZ5o3wqX-8 .
Are there my plans to have these sold in the UK through one of the local retailers?
We will offer these to retailers soon. Just have to get the supply chain working and stable. (We’re almost there.)
I figured while I was there I might as well order a set of design curves too. Excited about the scraper. Now that i’m proficient in prepping them, I find myself reaching for one regularly. Not often in this hobby that you can pick up an extremely high quality version of a tool for $20.
You guys are doing it right. I appreciate your approach to growth. Sad that it seems so odd and backwards these days. I’l get my lump hammer one day, by god.
Great! Now I have to call my rectangular scrapers “rabbeting scrapers” so they’ll still feel special.
I received my scraper today. I’m refinishing a table top that is not exactly flat, and I don’t really want to plane the whole thing. The curved shape of this scraper works surprisingly well for contacting every little bit of the surface.