Hi Rod

Real soft wood you say ?, well as far as I am concerned if you can not
cut it you certainly can not scrape it, don't matter who's name is in
front of "scraper.
However there might be ways to improve the ability of cutting or
scraping the wood, you could use sanding sealer, CA, thinned white glue,
shellac, etc. to stiffen up the wood so you can cut the wood or scrape
it, also it does help us if you give more info when asking a question,
there is a lot of expertise out there, but they do need basic info to
know the what and how.

Have fun and take care
Leo Van Der Loo

Rod wrote:
I have some very soft timber that is giving me problems with grain tearout.
Ashley Isles make a Reg Sherwin Shear Scraper that looks like it would be
good for this application. I am wondering if anyone has used this tool and
what their experience was.

Thanks Rod.