Hand Scrapers

This is one hand tool every woodworker should be comfortable with. Once you get the hang of sharpening and using it, you'll be sorry you took so long to try.
A while ago, ShopNotes magazine produced a short video demonstrating how to sharpen a scraper, and a couple ways to use it. And once you've tried it a couple times, it really is as easy as it looks in the video.

And another cool thing, they're inexpensive too.