i've just removed umpteen coats of varnish from my teak faced washboards with a cheap scraper from Wickes. It gets it off easily,the scraper has a square blade that can be rotated to give a new edge and has two different sides one coarse and one fine, it has a green plastic handle, spare blades are also available, if you don't want to sharpen it with a file. The wood scraper shown here: http://www.wickes.co.uk/bin/venda?ex=co_...earchsubmit.y=7
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Happy sailing.
Malc