The blades are smooth on one end, for scraping, and toothed at the other end for grounding in preparation for gluing.
Man would I love to find some toothed blades!! Never even saw one.
But I do have 2 of these scrapers I love.
One is a standard Stanley #12 but someone drilled holes in it and added sole pieces of lignum vitae wood. Pretty standard. The Stanley 12 1/2 had a rosewood sole, but its marked 12 1/2.
Lignum is a magnitude harder than rosewood and also has natural oils making it outright slippery.
The other one, a rare Ohio O12, also has a lignum sole, but the previous owner was an expert machinist and actually dovetailed the sole into the iron frame with long front to back dovetails! Never saw anything like it.
I especially love them because both were done by real experts. So they work fantastic.
But doing so totally ruined the Stanley collector value.
The "factory collectors" (as I call them) want original mint, and anything else is worthless to them.
So I get 2 fantastic scrapers for 10 cents on the collector dollar!!
I used to have a screaming mint, standard #12.
But when I got the others I sold that thing in a heartbeat! It was after all, merely stock,
nothing to me.
yours Scott
