Thread: Plane Blades and Chisels ( A progress report )

There are two sets of "our " pareing chisels on ebay at the moment.

Originally Posted by Pagie

There are two sets of "our " pareing chisels on ebay at the moment.

Thanks Pagie,

I bought the unground ones. thinking about the others...

Ray

Sent my set of 8 to RayG on Friday.

Hope I don't see them on ebay!

Cheers All
OG

I sent the seller a message via ebay.

Hello Rodney

This is thumbsucker from the https://www.woodworkforums.com. The steel is M2 HSS sourced from Sweden, the blades were hardened to Rc 62-64. All of the components were manufactured in Melbourne, Australia. The slot in the brass sockets were made to tight fit the chisel. This was done so that the chisel would peen the soft brass and achieve a friction fit. All that you need to do is use a needle file to open up the brass sockets 0.4m, then carefully tap them down the tang, as the chisel is held in a metal working vice. To seat them snugly.

The handles were pre-drilled to 60mm from memory and a rectangular tapering mortise would need to be pared using a 3mm chisel in the set.

Hope this helps your sale.

Cheers


Thumbsucker

Originally Posted by Old gunnie

Sent my set of 8 to RayG on Friday.

Hope I don't see them on ebay!

Cheers All
OG

Damn... there goes the plan...

Thanks again for the loan much appreciated.

Ray

Originally Posted by RayG

Damn... there goes the plan...


Ray

Yes the pace has picked up on the bidding with some time to go and the seller hasn't yet made use of Thumbsucker's additional information.

The unground chisels were a good pickup for you but not necessarily for anybody else. I am expecting to see a really nice set of 7 posted here complete with handles etc in the very near future .

Regards
Paul

Originally Posted by Bushmiller

The unground chisels were a good pickup for you but not necessarily for anybody else. I am expecting to see a really nice set of 7 posted here complete with handles etc in the very near future .

Regards
Paul

Don't hold your breath. if the current lot of parers is anything to go by, you will be waiting years. With nothing but bland, meaningless attempts to not explain progress, or lack thereof anytime you might be so bold as ask.

Originally Posted by Bushmiller

Yes the pace has picked up on the bidding with some time to go and the seller hasn't yet made use of Thumbsucker's additional information.

The unground chisels were a good pickup for you but not necessarily for anybody else. I am expecting to see a really nice set of 7 posted here complete with handles etc in the very near future .

Regards
Paul

Hi Paul,

I was thinking they would go for a bit more than that... http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/251521824...84.m1423.l2649

But I guess without ferrules and handles, it was still a real bargain for someone.

Ray

Originally Posted by Ray153

Don't hold your breath. if the current lot of parers is anything to go by, you will be waiting years. With nothing but bland, meaningless attempts to not explain progress, or lack thereof anytime you might be so bold as ask.

Yes, waiting is a problem, nothing I can do about that. I'm pretty sure you're not going to stop asking for detailed progress reports, and I'll do my best to provide you updates.

Fair enough?

Ray

Ray, of course I'll keep asking for information as to progress.

Unfortunately, bland reassurances such as "all good" and "Good question, it's been pretty busy around here... nothing of consequence to report.." are not good enough.

As I have asked you before, stop treating us all like fools and provide an accurate, honest assessment of what has been done to date and when you expect to fulfill your part of the contract?

Originally Posted by RayG

All good Ray, thanks for asking.

JackE has kindly sent me a chisel from the first batch, ( Thanks JackE! ) Gunnie, is doing likewise and I should see that in the next week. The jig for grinding the bevels on the 3mm chisels is coming along.

Ray

What has been done in the last month?

Not interested in rubbish answers and vague blandishments any more. It is high time we all got an honest, accurate answer about what is happening with this.

On Saturday the 14th of June next Saturday at about 11 am I will be arriving in Shepparton from Melbourne to see RayG. I will take my camera to document the state of the chisels and I will find what the problem is first hand. I will then report back when I get back to Melbourne later that night.

Originally Posted by thumbsucker

On Saturday the 14th of June next Saturday at about 11 am I will be arriving in Shepparton from Melbourne to see RayG. I will take my camera to document the state of the chisels and I will find what the problem is first hand. I will then report back when I get back to Melbourne later that night.

That should be good, I might get you a permanent job documenting progress..

We have some houskeeping jobs that we can do while you are here.. I have some plane irons that I'd like to know what we are going to do with?

Ray

How did the plane irons turn out?

I remember seeing pictures a long time ago, and they looked impressive. For those of you lucky enough to have grabbed one, how good are they to use/sharpen?

Thanks,

Craig