I was playing with my new MagFire steels last night. Noticed something.

The freakin' scraper stopped working! It worked for a few dozen scrapes, then the performance fell off, then I couldn't strike a spark. Moved to a clean / new spot on the scraper, started working again, but only for a short time. Finally rendered the entire scraper non-functional just by using up all the edge. Dunno what happened. I tried wiping it off, but it didn't help.

Went inside, got an old knife. Whoa. There we go. <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> But you're right... I wouldn't want to do this a lot... hard on the blade.