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23rd March 2015, 07:24 AM #1well aged but not old
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Aldi and Narex Chisels
I have had a set of 4 Aldi chisels now for a few months. I bought a set as a present and when I got them home I thought they looked so good, for $13 I better get myself some also. Anyway they are hollow ground and sharpened to 20 degrees. They hold an edge perfectly well. The only drawback is that the sides are too wide to get easily into the base of dovetails. It can be done but you have to be careful. For anything else they are just great.
I also have had sets of Narex chisels- bevel edged and mortise chisels- for a couple of years. They cost a bit more.But I think I paid less than $200 for the two sets of chisels. The sides on the bevel edged chisels are okay for dovetailing. One in seven and one in eight tails are fine. The steel is good. I read that the first bit of the tip is brittle and after that the steel is better and I have found similarly. The first edges I put on them were not great but now the steel holds a fine edge for as long as you could reasonably expect.
It is really a matter of how much you are prepared to spend. If you spend heaps more for LN or something else you will get a better chisel. But it seems to me that if what I make with the tools I have is not up to standard then I am just being an old fool blaming the chisels. It is more likely the tool holding the chisel that is to blame.My age is still less than my number of posts
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23rd March 2015, 09:40 AM #2
Yairs, Chook, I think most of us would agree with you, but it doesn't seem to stop us from thinking "If only I had......" I know I don't build anything better than when I started because I have some better tools, I've just learned to use all of my tools a bit better.
We can waste a lot of time wishing for wonderful tools that might otherwise have been more profitably spent learning to maintain & use what we have. The advantages of expensive tools are often very small, in the scheme if things, and I fear there is a lot of one-upmanship involved, though I'm sure we can all justify our choices, whatever they are! In my case, I spent the extra on a set of LN chisels mostly to get those superb bevels (a justification) but also because I have a fondness for socket style chisels (pure whim!). Do they hold their edges that much better than your Narexes? I doubt the difference would be very noticeable in general use.
Cheers,IW
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24th March 2015, 06:16 PM #3well aged but not old
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If any of the old craftsmen from times long past saw my workshop and found I had wanted for something better they would have laughed.
My age is still less than my number of posts
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