Thread: Store chisels with magnets?

Good thinking, Ian, thanks for those comments and your futuristic vision with razor sharp chisels flying around the workshop.

You would not come within a bulls roar of mine in the untidy workshop competition, so embarrassed every time I open the door of the shed. So glad no such competition exists

The chisels and box are a gift for a tradie son, a plumber who is very good at renovation and cabinet making around home. He certainly knows the difference between' bashers /bangers' and good quality cabinet making chisels, having bought a full set of Lie-Nielsen chisels 15 years ago when he was single and earning good money, and has never used them to my knowledge, still in their original boxes. Won't even show them to me But recently I did get a lend of his Veritas flat and round spokeshaves he bought at the same time, a joy to use. And I have seconded his Tormek Supergrind 2000. he he he

So these Stanleys will be for him doing renovation. I imagine the box will be in a cupboard, and the chisels he wants to use taken out, and hopefully put back.

LanceC, thanks for this comment, but rust is a big problem up here, so they really need an airtight box, not a chisel roll. I keep mine in a leather chisel roll and need to constantly oil them. And I find the sharp chisels cut through the bottom of them too. And good quality leather rolls are very difficult to find and very expensive.