Thread: Crown Chisel Quality.

Ok, one down; six to go

1. While I continued flattening the back, 20 minutes on the 300 stone equals about 0.5mm of encroachment out to the edge.... time for a new solution. So I clamp the hand-held belt sander to the bench, and using a 40 grit belt I go at it for about 15 minutes to get the bottom fairly flat. Even this requires significant quenching! Back to the stones... and the dark area you can see is polished with Green rouge.

2. I opted not to take the top surface back to completely flat, nor to remove all of the pitting because this might have also destroyed the Logo Beveled edge was to remove the serious pitting and damage to the square edge. Still doesn't look new, but they only need to be functional, not beautiful

3. Scratches in my lovely polished ferrules .... Functional, not beautiful, got it! Oh, and I forgot to install a leather impact washer

On performance; I can't compare them to anything but my Bunnings cheapies, but so far they're extremely good! take an edge as easily, but hold it considerably longer under heavy stress.

To test I decided to hack through a bit of 2" x 4" OB across the grain (just like a woodchopping competition) to see which would loose it's edge faster. The cheapies lasted about 30 seconds before it was visibly obvious that it was gone. The titan had lost it hair-shaving edge by the time I'd turned the 2x4 around to start the other side, but was plenty sharp enough to keep on hacking away to completion. Thirty seconds on the rouge had it back to shaving sharp again.... unreal!

Thanks all for your advise, I'm certainly glad I went the way of the Titan

Originally Posted by kman-oz

Thanks all for your advise, I'm certainly glad I went the way of the Titan

Good to see you having fun and making progress. Titans are good chisels they will serve you well.

Keep us posted.