I finally looked at the scaler I occasionally use:
Hu Friedy SC 13/14 - lasted me a while.

I'd like to get some more scalers and some curettes. Where and what do
you
recommend? eBay? Want some fairly good stuff. And some sharpeners
too. Arkansas stone, rectangles or actual cone sticks?

What do you recommend for a beginner? I'm pretty good with tools but
I like to touch up now and then, a bit of tartar that I feel on
my teeth or at the gum line. I am not a dental person although
I once taught dental hygienists. But not how to clean teeth.

It's okay. I know my stuff somewhat. Injected chlorhexidine into a
pocket and
shrunk it and have not hurt myself with the needle but it
was blunted so unlikely. Much better than the crude dull
plastic thingees they throw at clients nowadays.

And I'm pretty good with handtools. Used the dental stuff originally
for electronic assembly boards. But need new stuff. Hate to use
dental tools loaded up with lead from the old-fashioned lead solder :)

Any thoughts? I rarely get a hygienist or dentist like the ones from
the old days. My old dentist used to love the curette. Now it's usually
fast and sloppy with the Calcitron (TM) zip zip zip
and I can feel the tartar or calculus still on my teeth. It's hard to
find
a good one now willing to take the time. Maybe I should offer
to pay three times as much??? I need to start saving up. I found a
dental
professor who loved to clean teeth but seemed to ignore everything
else.
Oh well, that's a start.