Chisel Piccies

[Bodgy]

Handle - Jarrah, old verandah post, copper water pipe ferrule, finished with Organoil. Cutting end honed to 6000 waterstone and steel protected with Silverglide

[Andy Mac]

Nice work Bodgy. Is it a skew chisel? Have you used it in earnest?

Cheers,

[Bodgy]

Andy, it is meant as a mortice chisel, hence the depth of the blade. Wont ever probably be belted hard but will be levered. Discovered I needed one this thin when fitting a piece of angle iron into a timber bed to support my new router lifter for the router table, Sawed out most of the waste but couldn't clean out the corners. Now I can.

[Andy Mac]

Bodgy,
Gotcha now, my thoughts were skew with the flat one direction; or a mortice, flat the other! How does it rate, any weakness around the neck? As you say, should be OK without encouraging it with a mallet!

Cheers,

[Bodgy]

Used it today, worked fine, even kept an edge. I was thinking of maybe putting another copper ferrule around the blunt end (I have some 3/4 water pipe), then I could hit it with a mallet. Its only mild steel, and I only hardened the 15mm tip of the blade, si whilst it may bend it wont snap.

Andy, you probably know this. If I buy HSS blanks, are they already hardened? I dont fancy grinding, filing and shaping quality hardened steel! Or do they come un-tempered then you harden when the tool is shaped?

Are McJing blanks any good? Nice guys, but I bought their cabinet scrapers and they just wont hold an edge. Really - I mean 5 minutes use between re-square and burring!