1. Patience
2. More patience
3. Stamina (unless using a Biax, which is cheating. Your friends will never know, but you will...) Kidding aside, using a Biax is harder for the amateur...
4. Did I mention patience?
In all seriousness - get a hand scraper and then use what you probably already have. Worry about the other precision tools, etc later. You're not going to become excellent at scraping in a few hours (though you are going to become fatigued...). Let your other tools follow your progress. When you can scrape to the limits of an import straight edge or granite block *then* consider getting something better. Yes, I know that a bad gauge means a bad scraping job, but at this point you're practicing technique. You're going to scrape a 1-2-3 block. Don't worry about its absolute squareness - worry about whether you can scrape it to a standard - even if your standard is, well, sub-standard. You don't need a NIST certified cylindrical square to learn scraping. Once you're great at it you might want better standards (and a Biax), but don't get carried away starting out. That's like buying a jig bore to drill clearance holes for 3/8" bolts...
GsT
2. More patience
3. Stamina (unless using a Biax, which is cheating. Your friends will never know, but you will...) Kidding aside, using a Biax is harder for the amateur...
4. Did I mention patience?
In all seriousness - get a hand scraper and then use what you probably already have. Worry about the other precision tools, etc later. You're not going to become excellent at scraping in a few hours (though you are going to become fatigued...). Let your other tools follow your progress. When you can scrape to the limits of an import straight edge or granite block *then* consider getting something better. Yes, I know that a bad gauge means a bad scraping job, but at this point you're practicing technique. You're going to scrape a 1-2-3 block. Don't worry about its absolute squareness - worry about whether you can scrape it to a standard - even if your standard is, well, sub-standard. You don't need a NIST certified cylindrical square to learn scraping. Once you're great at it you might want better standards (and a Biax), but don't get carried away starting out. That's like buying a jig bore to drill clearance holes for 3/8" bolts...
GsT