Thread: Some more pics of the tools I've been making

I make the tangs as thick as possible. For the ones shown the tangs are slightly over 3/8". This gives me lots shoulder for the ferrules to butt up to with out the worry of them collapsing from heavy mallet blows. The tangs are also not hardened. This way if someone were to try and pry something apart with one of them it would bend long before it would break. I've got enough tool steel left over to make another set of bevel edge chisels. So this time I'll take pictures and write out the process and post it up here. Then ya can make yer own.

Originally Posted by LineLefty

MatthewA, do the mortice chisels have a thick tang than the bevel edgers?

(Hands up forum readers, who's thoguht to themsevles, "nice work, I wonder if I could do that?") I bet it's a thousand times harder than it looks.

Great work!