Another use for a butchers steel?

[windbreaker]

It has crossed my mind that it may be possible to use a butchers steel for sharpening a scraper.

Would any butchers (including wood butchers) know if the steel is in fact near hard enough? This is the problem i am faced with.

Also, most have flutes like shop purchased dowels. Would the flutes in the steel create any problem in the sharpening process?

WB
Killer of brain cells

[IanW]

WB - this topic was done to death a while back.

See:
http://www.woodworkforums.ubeaut.com...aper+burnisher.

In my view they are plenty hard enough, but you would need to expend some elbow grease and a few sheets of emery cloth polishing them - a smooth surface works best.

Here is my newish burnisher - a bit of HSS rod and a She-oak handle. Works well, but no better than the ugly old 3-corner file I polished off & used for 20-something years, which was marginally better than the screwdriver shaft I'd used prior to that. (Recommended by no less a personality than Tage Frid)

Cheers,

[windbreaker]

thanks. Found the link and All I need is there.

WB

Killer of brain cells