I am sorry Members, but here is a little history lesson: Daryl, I taught you to scrape before I introduced you to Dennis (who your calling your mentor. Dennis Danish was my friend and I wanted him to observe, help my students and you were one of them at a class I was teaching in St. Paul approx 10 years ago. I invited him and that is where you met him at a class you attended as a student. I met Dennis at Midwestern Machinery in the 1980's in Mpls where I was a scraping contractor with my dad. Dennis arranged a scraping class at Honeywell (Alliant Tech) where he worked and I taught him to scrape the modern methods, using a carbide blade and a BIAX scraper.. He did learn to scrape from his dad who learned from my dad in the 1950's - 1960's when my Dad was a Rebuilding contractor when his dad worked at American Hoist in St. Paul, MN.
Back then they used HSS because carbide was to expensive as were diamond wheels that were the only way to sharpen carbide scraper blades, the green wheel left scratches as they were to coarse. I invited Dennis to attend your first scraping class in St. Paul. I mentored you in many machinist tricks, let you copy many of my text books, gave you a copy of my DVD on how to scrape. and I suspect I introduced you to this Forum when we me talking on Practical Machinist forum when you asked for info on your turret lathe. Back then I was also I was the lead moderator in this Hobby Machinist rebuilding forum. Nelson Timken the originator of Hobby Machinist asked me to be the moderator as we met on another forum. I never mentioned using HSS to you. It may have been in the Connelly book I gave you, but again it was written in the 1950's when carbide was expensive. I used HSS steel when I was a kid and stopped using it in the 1970's. The hand scraper the OP is using is made in Germany and like Sanvik it comes with a Carbide blade. Anyone learning to scrape in the 2020's uses Carbide as it makes scraping cast iron a dream. Using HSS makes a beginner spend 1/2 the time sharpening the dull blade. Today one can buy a diamond lapping wheel for $15.00 on ebay and make a sharpening lap it attaches too. It's silly in my opinion to use a sharpening stone to sharpen HSS today. I now have taught scraping for over 45 years and have over 40,000 students with students around the globe. One can find how to make a lapping machine by Googling "Glendo Lap alternative. To the members I am the only Professional Machine Rebuilder who writes in this Forum who has been doing it for more then 56 years. We were paid to rebuild machinery, it wasn't a hobby, I helped my Dad when I was aa 12 yr old kid in our basement, helped during summer vacation and started working full time in 1971. I am now 72 and there are only a few people who can teach scraping who are members here and in my opinion there is no one else from MN is one. There are 3 or 4 in California who I can think of.