Gouge curiosity

[rsser]

This came as an orphan in a lot of bench chisels bought a while ago.

Bit unusual - seems both forged and milled.

Can anyone shed any light on this kind of tool?

It's CS of course, and a Berg. Graph paper is 5mm grid.

[RETIRED]

Long and strong spindle gouge I reckon.

[thefixer]

G'day Ern

I've got an E A Berg chisel that also came with handful of other oldies. My research tells me that they were carving chisels. The one I've got is somewhere between a gouge and a skew.(if that makes any sense) It has become my favorite chisel for finishing off spindles. Holds an edge for ever and is the only tool that I have never got a grab with.

Cheers
Shorty

[Robomanic]

I just love the graph paper - great idea i will be using that one

[rsser]

Just did a Google and found a couple of Lloyd turning tools with a similar cross section.

Shannon, check out http://www.woodworkforums.ubeaut.com.au/showthread.php?t=39228 for free online graph/pattern papers.

Shorty, yeah, the Berg plane blades are sposed to be good too. Carving chisel you reckon? Hmm, it has a pretty thin rectangular tang with no cup on it.

Thanks . Could be.

Anyway, will give it a run today. As an orphan it came with a bench chisel handle which clearly wasn't original so I replaced it yesterday.

[Robomanic]

Shannon, check out http://www.woodworkforums.ubeaut.com.au/showthread.php?t=39228 for free online graph/pattern papers.

Thanks Ern, very handy to know.

[rsser]

Pleasure.

I just did a bit of Radiata planing with the gouge and it cuts very nicely. Behaves very much like a forged spindle gouge. With a steadier hand no sanding would be needed.