Show Off Your Chisels

[Clinton1]

Off original thread topic, bt relevant (I think)

I recently got a 'piece of rubbish masquerading as art deco 60's cupboard' to be tool storage.... thanks Vinnies!

If it didn't stain clothes and things like cufflinks and tie pin's.... then it should be good for tools?
If timber will produce exudate and tarnish metal, would it have been used for clothing and accutrements (excuse spelling).

Fave chisels.... sometime they are my Japanese ones.... sometime they are my plastic handled 'multi-tools' (good for opening paint tins and chopping mortices) !

6 months after using the cupboard there are no issues.

[msiemsen]

chisels.JPGHere is the set I made from o-1 steel 1/16" to 2 "

[AJOE123]

Hello all
Found a few chisels whilst holidaying in NZ
Second hand chisels are in short supply in NZ possibly due to the strong Maori woodcarving tradition;but I managed to turn up a few.
Nicest was an Ibbotson 3/32 mortice with an unusual handle.
A ?swedish bevel with a steel ferrule
A few plastic handled Bergs
A Nelson hockey stick carver.
Photos for your viewing pleasure
Tony

[Christos]

Hello all
Found a few chisels whilst holidaying in NZ
Second hand chisels are in short supply in NZ possibly due to the strong Maori woodcarving tradition;but I managed to turn up a few........

Now a few less.

Always nice to pick up a few holidaying.

[johnnyrsa]

Thought I'd show off my latest finds.

3 Huge Marples shamrock chisels which I found at a local junk store:



These Pfeil carving chisels I found at a flea market:



Then I'm eagerly awaiting the arrival of this set of chisels which I ordered from Pfeil in Switzerland:

[rsser]

Great score!

Marples steel can be very good.

[clear out]

Great score!

Marples steel can be very good.

Interesting comment considering your age.
I remember the old hands in the Patternshop saying how soft the current Marples were when I bought mine. Seeing some how we were using Sugar pine and jelly it didn't matter.
I'm about 5 years older than you.
Probably just a generational thing like now "remembering the good old daze."
H.

[rsser]

Well, I did say 'can be very good'
A big variable is the heat treating and tempering process, and this can vary batch by batch and product line by line.

[IanW]

I'lll second Ern, the operative word is 'can'. I started my chisel-buying in the early 70's, with a couple of (new) Bergs and a couple of wooden-handled Marples which I can't remember if they were new or someone gave them to me. A few years have passed, and memory isn't always what we think it is, but I remember they were all good chisels. Unfortunately, they all disappeared during an early move. In the mid 80's I bought a set of Marples 'blue chips' to complement one I'd been given as a xmas present. The one I was given (1 1/8") was a beauty - took & held an edge as well as any chisel I've ever used. However, I quickly discovered that two of the chisels from the set were good, while two were way too soft - one would probably have turned its nose up on Hoop! You would think by then that heat-treating would have been well controlled, but it obviously wasn't.

Maybe it was ever thus. I inherited a couple of very old Marples from my father. One is very good, the other is a bit softer than I like. I don't think it has been mis-treated, either, as they were both reasonably well looked-after by the same person. So it's probably safe to say about any brand that they can be good, or they can be not so good......

Cheers,

[Basilg]

I'll third that.

I have these Marples Mortice chisels which would be around 45 years old, which have cut up to 16mm mortices 80 mm deep in hardwood acceptably, and the handles have stood up without injury.

I bought a set of traditional ' pig stickers ' a couple of years back, so these Marples are for sale, if any one is interested drop me a line.

Regards