Thread: Rehandling chisels - patterns/templates wanted

Originally Posted by Clinton1

Colin62, be careful mate, it's a slippery slope and when you get started, often it's just a wild and unending ride. But, damn, man, the ride is worth it! In the end you'll be bearded with the beard full of sawdust and wood chips, gibbering about modulus of rupture and advocating strongly for one method of sharpening vs the others and all kinds of cool and groovy stuff that very few other people understand. I'm one of those people, and, damn, I highly recommend it! 

Well, here’s my attempt - I decided to go for the same look as on the one Ward I had, using some Kiaat given to me a few years ago by the same friend who gave me the Ward with the missing handle, shown here in the first pic. Removing the ferrule cost me a drive to the local hospital and seven stitches. Actually it was my stupidity the caused it, the chisel just happened to be in my hand at the moment of my brain-fart.

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The second pic isn’t a Ward, but fits with the others so it became the third of a small set of vintage Sheffield chisels. It’s handle was in poor shape.
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And here the set of three, with the original Ward handle on the top, and the two Kiaat copies below.
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May hands aren't small either and so the handles are a little bigger than the original, and I decided that they look close enough that I’ll not rehandle the complete one, and rather leave it as is.