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• This also looks like an awl, but is actually a scraper for clay or wax. It’s an artist’s carving tool. (Or at least that’s what I’ve used it for—it may have some other official purpose I’m unaware of.)

• Triangular Awl

• Plastic scrapers avoid scratching delicate paint.

• A drawknife can remove a lot of wood in one pass. The pulling muscles in your arms are generally stronger than the pushing ones, so you can get a lot of force behind a tool like this.

• A spoke shave is like a drawknife with a depth stop.

• I made these scrapers by the thousands for inclusion in the acrylic model kits I used to sell. They are laser cut from acrylic and can be used to start peeling the protective film off acrylic parts without scratching them.

• A nice old cast iron wood scraper from an abandoned high school shop class.

• A tungsten carbide blade makes this scraper last nearly forever without sharpening.

• This radius scraper is designed for delicate model-making. It fits over your finger and can round over wood or plastic shapes to a specific radius.

• Razor Scraper

• Hook-shaped scrapers are for pulling. They can scrape off excess glue from a wood joint, among many other things.

• Spoke Shave

• Triangle Awl

• Narrow mason’s trowel, or dull scraper, your choice.

• Trowel or scraper? Works for both.

• A tough push-scraper like this could be used to knock off high spots on wood or metal parts. It’s like a dull chisel.

• Tiny scraper.

• This is a drawknife for the calluses on your feet.

• These look like awls, but are actually metal scraping tools, for smoothing and refining the insides of holes and other hard-to-reach areas.

• Standard utility knife blades and single-edge razor blades can be mounted sideways to form a scraper.

Do you have a better example of this kind of tool? Let me know by leaving a comment, and include a picture of it if you can so everyone can see!