Random Orbital Bob
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Peter (Toolpost) has to be one of the worlds most vociferous salesman so.....quite likely 
The point you mentioned about a burr giving a fine sheer scrape is a known technique in scraper sharpening if for example you're doing the finishing cuts on a bowl and you want to start further up the sanding grits tree.
The idea is you sharpen your round nose scraper as normal and then deliberately raise a burr either with a burnishing tool or just a tad more welly on the grinder in the first place. When you present the scraper (at around 45 degrees) to the work in sheer scraping mode, the shaving it takes due to the fine burr is gossamer and a real pleasure to witness. Not unlike a very well setup plane. Your surface should avoid tear out in the tricky end grain on spots and leave a very smooth surface.
Personally, I still find a very well sharpened gouge to be my preferred last tool for a finishing cut and I always sharpen it directly before the last 2 or 3 cuts. I can get a good result sheer scraping but it's just not as clean as when I use a cutting action with a freshly sharpened gouge.
The point you mentioned about a burr giving a fine sheer scrape is a known technique in scraper sharpening if for example you're doing the finishing cuts on a bowl and you want to start further up the sanding grits tree.
The idea is you sharpen your round nose scraper as normal and then deliberately raise a burr either with a burnishing tool or just a tad more welly on the grinder in the first place. When you present the scraper (at around 45 degrees) to the work in sheer scraping mode, the shaving it takes due to the fine burr is gossamer and a real pleasure to witness. Not unlike a very well setup plane. Your surface should avoid tear out in the tricky end grain on spots and leave a very smooth surface.
Personally, I still find a very well sharpened gouge to be my preferred last tool for a finishing cut and I always sharpen it directly before the last 2 or 3 cuts. I can get a good result sheer scraping but it's just not as clean as when I use a cutting action with a freshly sharpened gouge.
