Bahco 625 Carbide Edged Pocket Scraper

Have been using this scraper on Victorian pine front door. It’s been amazing. If held flat but firmly on straight panel it will scrape paint off. It’s been invaluable to scrape paint out of old trim . It’s been used non stop for 3 days and still good as new. Comes in a plastic holder for safe keeping. So glad I found this .

I've been trying to remove the craptastic 70s wood effect paint from our staircase for weeks now. I have tried chemical strippers, sanding, and heat guns. All of them pale in comparison with this carbide stripper. It functions a bit like a plane, so if the wood is uneven it'll miss the "valleys," and it's not great at gloss until it finds something to bite into, but once it gets going it makes short work of everything, and the blade gets into some fairly tight spaces.The only disappointing thing about it for me is I didn't have it sooner! It's not so cheap for what is essentially a blade, but it's REALLY worth it.The knob on top also really helps you to get your bodyweight into it, which helps at removing the stubborn soaked in base layer paint that no other method would touch. A great tool!

Easy to use good size for smaller hands.Strong and strudy

One star off for price of replacement blade.I’ve used this and the smaller version to scrap layers of paint and varnish from my entire staircase. It’s easy to use, the blade is sharp, and maintains this for a long time. Which is useful as they are expensive to replace.The designers are smart, buy this and you’ll not regret it.

I don't normally write reviews, but this product blew me away. I've spent the past weeks laboriously stripping paint and wallpaper from walls in my own home and at a friend's place. It has been tiring and awful, especially with the heat, and has taken me such a long time to make even the slightest progress.I tried standard scrapers and stanley blade ones, but the blades became dull so quickly I was going through an unreasonable number of blades or working with dull blades so my efforts resulted in chipping the plaster more than removing the paint. On top of that, a lot of effort was required for each area and I ended up spraining my hand and developing callouses.Before long I started to look for other items... scoring tools, solutions... I tried them all with very little success. Solutions were messy to apply, had long waiting times or were just too expensive for the large areas I needed to strip. The worst ones barely seemed to make a difference.I searched online and came across this. The reviews seemed too good to be to true, but I had no other options and decided to give it a try. It was more than I would usually spend, but at this stage I knew it would be cheaper overall than constantly buying more blades/stripping solutions, if it lived up to expectations.Came through my door a few hours ago and I couldn't wait to try it. Straight out the box it was bigger than a lot of the other scrapers, but the ergonomic handle and extra grip knob made it easy to handle and direct. I took it to a patch I had been working on and scraped it down; with just a bit of effort a ribbon of paint came away from the wall. It was like cutting through butter!I was ECSTATIC. I had to try more... I ended up finishing stripping a whole alcove because it was so easy. Even when there wasn't an edge to scrape from, dragging the scraper on the paint a few times would reveal the plaster below with startling efficiency. Furthermore, there was minimal damage to the plaster below - with other scrapers there were chips and notches everywhere, whilst here there was only some sparse damage (which may well have been due to my own eagerness/haste).Best of all - my hand did not ache afterwards, I felt like I could go on for hours! The blade is extremely resilient and sharp and the handle has a great comfortable design making it a formidable tool. Cannot recommend enough.

Brilliant tool. Made the job of stripping wax from furniture so much easier.

This scraper - and its little brother - are remarkable for stripping paint and varnish, and this is no exaggeration. The blades are not cheap but well worth the cost. Forget about heat guns, especially for old varnish, and go for tungsten carbide. You may find yourself doing more stripping that you thought just because it's fun.

Excellent scraper well worth the money