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14th November 2012, 11:15 AM #106Senior Member
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Octagonal London Pattern Handles
Semantics! Show us your gouges?
Any way; with these chisels/gouges I needed to make a few handles and thus had to find a shape I liked.
The few original octagonal handles i had were not all aesthetically pleasing but after a few trials i settled on Marples style.
I made a tablesaw sled with 2 centres to hold cylindrical blanks of set length;this worked so I made another for the other side of the slot for a larger diameter.
Next thing to try is a taper octagonal handle jig for carver handles.
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17th November 2012, 07:16 PM #110Intermediate Member
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22nd November 2012, 02:32 PM #111Intermediate Member
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22nd November 2012, 06:02 PM #112
In Claw Hammer's collection I was heartened to see that the majority have that well used and aged patina,......just like mine. I rub the backs when I sharpen them but I don't have a mirror finsh on the backs and on the front only the grinding angle and sharpening bevel are shiny. The rest are just O'naturale. I use mine not put them on show. They are basically Bergs most have the red plastic handle but I do have a few wooden handled ones as well. Oh and I made one 2 days ago. A 13mm wide fine engineers file, rubbed of the teeth and ground it into a paring chisel shape for tidying up dovetails. Handle wil come when I get the lathe a new home in the shed.
Just do it!
Kind regards Rod
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24th November 2012, 07:32 PM #113
Derek
Apologies for getting to this one late. In principle I have done the same as you in the past except I have used oxy instead butane torches. I have access at work to oxy and if I didn't have that I would use an LPG flame. However, I know from experience that it is difficult to get enough heat into the steel by this method. I might try and heat treat a 12mm chisel, but not a 25mm chisel and certainly not a 50mm chisel. With oxy and heating head quite laarge pieces can be treated.
With regard to quenching I have only ever used oil. It seems successful and I believe it is because I use a large quanity. Twenty to thirty litres. It is always recycled oil (from work where we have gallons of used turbine oil for example) but at home I would use sump oil. To quench rapidly the tool should be dipped constantly into different parts of the bucket as localised heating of the oil must neccessarily occur. Particularly with finer tools, such as knives it is beneficial not to "stir" the cooling medium as this can lead to distortion.
I should also point out that most of my work (experiments would be more to the point) have been with high carbon steel. One day I will try with something a little more exotic .
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PaulBushmiller;
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4th December 2012, 03:21 PM #114SENIOR MEMBER
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A blacksmith technique for tempering that I have found works well is heating a block of steel that is larger than the item that you are tempering on some kind of insulating materiel(say a brick) and then place the item you are tempering on the block, flipping it and turning it on the block so that you get an even heat across the entire surface, you can get a fine control over where the temper is applied depending on what you have touching the heating block.
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4th December 2012, 03:34 PM #115Hewer of wood
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Neat tip.
Can you temper in a domestic oven?Cheers, Ern
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4th December 2012, 04:02 PM #116SENIOR MEMBER
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15th January 2013, 11:31 AM #117
Tool Roll for chisels
Where do you get your tool rolls for your chisels? Are they off the shelf or home made? Also do you impregnate the roll with any rust inhibitors?
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15th January 2013, 01:22 PM #118
Off the shelf - much cheaper. However you do have to monitor your chisels for rust with these. An application of rust inhibitor to the chisel usually helps. I use camelia tea oil.
Here is a pretty cheap one - including postage it is around $17 :
12 POCKET LEATHER TOOL ROLL WITH TIE | eBay
Cheers
SG.... some old things are lovely
Warm still with the life of forgotten men who made them ........................D.H. Lawrence
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15th January 2013, 01:28 PM #119
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15th January 2013, 01:40 PM #120
Indeed they do.
There are tool rolls that seem to be better at the non absorption of moisture -but they all do it.
The other problem is that during continued wet weather, they tend to grow mould on the surface of the leather. Even the Lie Nielsen leather tool rolls do this.
It is the trade off you make when you decide to use the convenience of a leather tool roll.
Cheers
SG.... some old things are lovely
Warm still with the life of forgotten men who made them ........................D.H. Lawrence
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