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5th December 2005, 11:26 PM #1
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Chisels
Evening,
Here are some chisels I made, over a period of years. The latest one is the small pig-sticker mortice chisel, knocked up about 3 weeks ago from an old file. It is 3mm thick, made to finish the slot cut with a table saw blade. It is handled with wadjil I cut in WA wheatbelt; the other mortice chisel is 1/4" with a handle of english oak from NZ. Each of these have a thick leather washer and no top ferrule, and are made from trad. English pattern by Bob Wearing. There is a slight taper in the body of the blade all the way along, thinner at the top or spine of the blade than the face, to ease movement pulling it from the timber and possibly to allow some slight change in direction. Derek may have something to add here, but I reckon pig-stickers make morticing a lot easier.
The big bevel chisel is about 50mm or so wide, and is forged from a piece of '1937? Chevie leaf spring, handle is unknown Eucalypt. There is a firmer chisel with a handle of silver ash, and the goose necked thing has a rough handle of spotted gum. It was made for smoothing off stepped sections of carvings and joints. These last two were forged from coil spring steel.
Recycle!!
Cheers,Andy Mac
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6th December 2005, 12:24 AM #2
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Oh, I like them.
'Pig sticker'.....thats a great name for a chisel.
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6th December 2005, 08:04 AM #3
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Very nice chisels Andy.
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6th December 2005, 08:38 AM #4
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great job Andy!
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6th December 2005, 09:01 AM #5
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Hi Andy,
As usual, love your work.
Is it possible to get some larger images?
The pig stickers are really impressive.
Was it much different to work with leaf spring to coil spring?
Cheers
Tom
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6th December 2005, 09:22 AM #6
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Hi Tom,
I'm really inept at getting my photos down to 100kB, I generally just reduce them down in size...obviously it didn't work too well this time!
Will have another go tonight.
Coil spring is nice to work if you get straight, annealed stock direct from a spring works. It is available in different diameters, and flattens down easily. Uncoiling used stuff is a bit of a hassle, and often the metal delaminates, which I think is caused by stresses during its working life and not getting it evenly hot before attempting to uncurl. Leaf spring is good for wider tools like drawknives, adzes etc, but often easier to cut it down (oxy or plasma) than forge it.
Cheers,Andy Mac
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6th December 2005, 09:37 AM #7
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Andy,
I think I'll make bring extra special coffee when I come up to visit.
Expect me to pick your brain, so the coffee will be to get you in a good mood.
The chisels are "annoyingly" good - annoying because I want to make them and I can't. Ahhhhhhhrgh.
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6th December 2005, 11:02 PM #8
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Clinton, take a coffee machine and a bag of good coffee, a nice new cup and a packet of biscuits and sucker Andy into making you a few chisels?
Andy, nice stuff. I'll try the same when I get half a chance. Prolly sometime next century...
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