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rsser
15th November 2008, 05:22 PM
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
15th November 2008, 05:53 PM
Long and strong spindle gouge I reckon.
thefixer
15th November 2008, 10:53 PM
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
15th November 2008, 10:57 PM
I just love the graph paper - great idea i will be using that one
rsser
16th November 2008, 06:30 AM
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
16th November 2008, 09:49 AM
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
16th November 2008, 10:37 AM
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.