Chisel Advice heavy tool

**kiwioutdoors** · 13th April 2020, 02:59 PM

Been spending much of this lock down in the shed cleaning up and restoring tools. Over the years Ive collected about 60 or so chisels through Trade me. Some duplicates I have donated to a friend.
Most of them are Marples, Mathesion and older english makers with some Bergs, Sadvik and a Titan or two. Ive collected some Firmerchisels ,Mortice, Standard bevel types as well as some paring chisels.

Ive got a few queries about Double ups and what to keep and a couple of questions about when a chisel becomes a mortice vs a Flat sided Firmer

From Right to Left all Bevel Edge
4mm
6mm Titan
10mm Footprint
12mm Berg
12.5 Marples
16mm Marples
18mm Berg
19mm Marples
22mm B Linley
25mm Marples
32mm B Linley
38mm Marples

Would anyone discard any that are really close in size?
I have a new set of Marples Ridgeway 6mm,13mm,19mm,25mm Are these better than some of the current selection?

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Ive Got two Spare chisels in both 6mm and 10mm

6mm MARPLES
10MM JNU SWEDISH Steel I think?

Was going to turn these into
skews for cleaning up Dovetails etc
Good Idea yes/no

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Ive restored 4 Paring chisels I define this a any chisel I deem extra long ?
The largest width one is very heavy and very thick about twice as thick as a standard chisel also much longer.Ive handled it as a something that will be hit.

How would this one be classified?
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Mortice Chisel pig Sticker Type
4mm/4.5 No Marking
10mm/9.7mm Marples
12mm/12.5 Marples

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These Ive also classified a Mortice Chisels or are they something else?

6mm Marples
12.6mm / 13mm Marples
16.5mm /17mm Ward
25mm Rob Sorby Aussie Made

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These are what I have called Firmed chisels or are they Mortice chisels ? They are Flat sided quite thick and handled as they are designed to be struck. The handles are original just cleaned and tidied up

9.5mm/10mm Marples
12mm Titan
25mm Marples
32mm Marples
38mm E Linley &Co

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I look forward to Comment

Regards

Andrew

**paul.cleary** · 14th April 2020, 07:25 PM

"Paring chisel twice as thick as ordinary chisels"
I picked up a similar chisel with a Ward blade (1.5 inches wide,10 inches long) and its original handle. This handle was a hexagonal shape with a round dome at the end, so it was built to be a paring chisel that was not hit with a mallet.
Sharpened it up and it is beautiful to use with good balance; the Ward steel takes and keeps a sharp edge for a long time, and its heaviness makes for easy paring.
Paul

**D.W.** · 15th April 2020, 03:13 AM

Originally Posted by paul.cleary

"Paring chisel twice as thick as ordinary chisels"
I picked up a similar chisel with a Ward blade (1.5 inches wide,10 inches long) and its original handle. This handle was a hexagonal shape with a round dome at the end, so it was built to be a paring chisel that was not hit with a mallet.
Sharpened it up and it is beautiful to use with good balance; the Ward steel takes and keeps a sharp edge for a long time, and its heaviness makes for easy paring.
Paul

I think the makers used handles of the same type on both the parers and some of the firmer chisels to be struck, so it's hard to tell from that. Ward does make some heavy parers in bigger widths, though, while some of the other makers left them thin. I'm not sure why - it's easier to make a thicker chisel than a thin one, but ward didn't do much as far as easy things.

I think the chisels with hoops on them are just those that would hold up to a steel hammer, not many of my older good quality firmer and bench chisels have a hoop on the handle, but I only have a few dozen of them and that's probably not enough to draw conclusions. The one ward chisel that I have with what looks like an original hoop is a hulking flat sided thing intended for very heavy use.

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