Thread: Where do you buy very narrow chisels

Of course, there are good examples over in the Chisels-handmade subforum.
https://www.woodworkforums.com/f279/mini-chisel-138659

I think that you are looking for wood carving tools.
1 or 2 mm is big and fat for the carvers who do the details with a magnifier.
Pfeil, Stubai, Auriou, Henry Taylor, Ashley Iles are the top flight.
Lots of others, right down to $12 for 12 edges, none of which can be either made or sustained as 'carving sharp.'

Described as in the old London Pattern Book, you're after a 1/1 or a 1/2.
The first number is the shape, the 'sweep' and the second number is the width in mm.

My smallest is a D9/2 and the biggest is a Stubai carving adze, 7/75.

Pfeil D-Series have shorter shanks and slightly smaller handles.
There are a bunch of very good bladesmiths who make "palm tools."
No, they aren't steel engraving tools, but those would work well, too.

If you plan to use the tool a lot, you get what you pay for.
No matter who the bladesmith was, carving sharp lasts about 30 minutes and the
edge management is entirely up to you with 30,000 grit.

Have you tried contacting a local blacksmith? there should be some on the central coast... alternatively you could contact the TAFE blacksmiths... I have completed all the blacksmithing subjects at Ultimo TAFE and the teachers there are really knowledgeable and I am sure could smash you out a thin chisel with the correct heat treatment! for some nominal fee... or they could recommend a blacksmith to you.
Unfortunately, I am not set up yet to do heat treatments at home...
it is coming though!

So on Sunday I dropped three old saw files into the oven at 220 degrees for an hour. Then I ground them down to 0.6, 1 and 1.4 mm. Not real pretty as my grinding skills are rubbish but they do the job. How robust the edges will be I'll know in time.

Thanks for the advice
Cheers
Arron