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    Default Corner chisel

    I am looking for a 1/4" or 6mm or 5mm secondhand corner chisel to buy. I mean a woodworking chisel with a cutting edge in the shape of a right angle (90 degrees). A chisel missing the handle will do, also. I have not done this type of advertisement before, but I assume my online identity will be automatically inserted when I submit this. If so, that should allow me to be contacted by personal message through the forum. If not, I may be contacted by ordinary mail posted to Donald Telfer, PO Box 6666, Coffs Harbour Plaza, NSW 2450

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    Try McJings at Yagoona.
    I can't get on to their website at the moment, but I have bought one from them a couple of years ago.
    Their dispatch of internet orders is very good, as is their prices.

    Alan...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Uncle Al View Post
    Try McJings at Yagoona.
    I can't get on to their website at the moment, but I have bought one from them a couple of years ago.
    Their dispatch of internet orders is very good, as is their prices.

    Alan...

    That was quick, thanks for that.

    Further information: I could not get on to their website either, "access denied" or something like that. Their website is www.mcjing.com.au

    I instead went to the internet "WaybackMachine" archive and accessed an archived version of their website as it displayed during April 2013.

    On the archive I found that they sell 10mm corner chisels for $10 (where I would expect to pay several times that). I regret though that a 10mm corner chisel is too wide for my purposes - unless I butcher it mercilessly. Here is the smallest they sell (or stocked in April):

    CC-01 10X10X65MM HSS 50 $10.00 YES




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    Didn't realise mine was that big, should have gone down the shed to check.
    It appears that McJings are having real problems with the website, refer https://www.woodworkforums.com/f239/m...ebsite-178428/

    At that price, it might be worthwhile getting one and doing a bit of grinding.

    Alan...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tiptoeturtle View Post
    I am looking for a 1/4" or 6mm or 5mm secondhand corner chisel to buy. I mean a woodworking chisel with a cutting edge in the shape of a right angle (90 degrees). A chisel missing the handle will do, also. I have not done this type of advertisement before, but I assume my online identity will be automatically inserted when I submit this. If so, that should allow me to be contacted by personal message through the forum. If not, I may be contacted by ordinary mail posted to Donald Telfer, PO Box 6666, Coffs Harbour Plaza, NSW 2450
    Hi TipToe

    If I may ask, why do you need a corner chisel?
    and why one that small?

    Corner chisels are often considered timber framing tools.
    depending on what you want to use it for, one of the hinge mortice squaring tools might be more suited to your task.

    regards from Alberta, Canada

    ian

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    Dear most valued Ian,

    Thank-you for your question.

    There is a brick building I wish to model in 1:160 scale (i.e. N-gauge model trains). The building is a factory constructed in about 1870 (in Danmark). Part of the material used for the walls of the model will (most likely) be 4mm MDF. The original walls are brick about 60cm thick (that is not a typographical error - the brick walls are 2 solid feet thick). Most of the windows in the building are the originals, and are a standard size with metal frames, and 16 individual panes of glass, these windows are 106cm wide by 122cm high at the window sides with arched brickwork over each window taking the height of the windows in the centre of the arch to 130cm. I want to cut clean square corners through the MDF (somehow) for the sills. As the scale is 1:160, the width of the window recesses is something like 7,3mm (1060 mm divided by 160).

    That is why I am looking for 1/4" or 6mm or 5mm corner chisels. Even 7mm corner chisels would work. 8mm is too big.

    An alternative to 4mm MDF may be something called "plasticard", I am unfamiliar with it apart from the name, I should look into this further, however I already have access to a considerable stockpile of 4mm MDF, free.

    I will read any other suggestions put to me.

    I have some chisels that work well for the curve of the brick arches.

    Donald

    (They don´t build buildings like they used to.)

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    Just use a normal bevel edge chisel and make two cuts. Drill the waste out with a 6.5 - 7.0mm drill and clean it up with a chisel. It will need to be very sharp for MDF.
    Those were the droids I was looking for.
    https://autoblastgates.com.au

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    At the moment that suggestion (of multiple cuts with a flat chisel) looks like what I am going to have to do. I have already discovered that it is probably going to help to drill the hole first, as otherwise there is a kind of bruise or exit wound on the underside of the MDF after the edge of the chisel reaches the opposite face of the board (which has a raw scrap piece of wood under it to prevent the chisel reaching the bench). Actually I am not sure yet whether drilling the hole first reduces the bruising.

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    Have a play on some scrap material. Not sure if it will work with MDF but cut half way with the chisel from either side.
    A scroll saw might do a better job.
    Those were the droids I was looking for.
    https://autoblastgates.com.au

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