On 4/30/2013 7:36 PM, dadiOH wrote:
Greg Guarino wrote:

I've got a card scraper; one, to be exact. I bought a honing rod from
Hock too. But I do not believe I have yet produced a really usable
edge.

So use a chisel. Or a knife. A sharp, curved blade lets you scrape in a
constrained area.

I've watched some videos and taken brief stabs at it, but
there's still something missing. That something is quite likely
"practice", but it still leaves me a little wary of using this method
on something I put so much work into.

If you doubt your ability to scrape, varnish something and practice.

I've got a bin full of scraps like that already (test pieces are my most
frequent product). I was in fact planning to do a test first with
whatever method(s)I choose. I have planed the finish off many pieces
before, but my ability to plane a 5' piece without making it wavy is
questionable.