First purchase you might consider is a book or two on the subject. Do a
search on hand scraping and you should find numerous articles from this
forum on the subject. The standard text on the subject I believe is
still " Machine Tool Reconditioning " by Edward F. Connelly. Check your


This is a great book. Its subject is how to recondition machines. It assumes
the reader already knows how to hand srape in a surface - very little in it
on the actual scraping process.

Karl