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Thread: Show Off Your Chisels
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13th August 2010, 10:44 PM #61
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14th August 2010, 08:47 PM #62
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14th August 2010, 09:21 PM #63
If you are looking for boxwood handles, then Lee Valley has the traditional octagonal London pattern boxwood handles in various sizes.
Octagonal Boxwood Chisel Handles - Lee Valley Tools
No affilliation etc...
Regards
Ray
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14th August 2010, 10:38 PM #64
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14th August 2010, 10:47 PM #65
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Thanks Ray,
They look rather fine. Actually at about the time this thread started (ie some years back) I did purchase some decent London pattern, and some carving handles in boxwood from a UK firm. I'd best dig out their address as they were a good source of decent quality second-hand tools as well.
I like the declaration of affilliation (or lack of, as in this case). It could catch on!
cheers,
B-D.
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15th August 2010, 06:46 AM #66
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UHM, after all these foreign chisels, Le voilà something from Italy... ok, ok, just joking, I've got no italian (do it better
) chisels in my collection:
from left to right, some famous english paring chisels, the bevel edged ones (english and french), three socketed stanley 750, three scottish pattern maker's gouges, my three mortice chisels (with an incredible 40 mm goldenberg), a wilkinson's sash mortice chisel (3 mm), and a set of firmer (mostly english).
The mortice chisels (not shown) vary in range from 2,2mm to 20mm, if I remember correctly. (never used or sharpened one, sadly)
I recognize not only I'm not a woodworker, but I can't have only what I need. But hey, That's my fun, after all...
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15th August 2010, 08:13 AM #67
Nice Chisels Orsomagno
How many years has that bench been in the family?"All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing"
(Edmund Burke 1729-1797)
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15th August 2010, 09:14 AM #68.... some old things are lovely
Warm still with the life of forgotten men who made them ........................D.H. Lawrence
https://thevillagewoodworker.blogspot.com/
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15th August 2010, 09:44 AM #69
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15th August 2010, 10:00 AM #70
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That's against the code!
I did a repro Berg handle out of Stringybark Willow. V tough but pink rather than yellow. Since then Luban kindly gave me some half logs of Osage Orange. The hold-up now is that my bimetal bandsaw blade needs sharpening and I'm debating whether to jump in without researching how to, or reading up on the process (also against the code).
Doing the Berg proved to be an interesting puzzle in terms of order of work, partic sizing the hoop.
btw Cottonwood is not the same as cotoneaster; if the attribution was right, the only cottonwood I've turned was green and so soft and fibrous as to be impossible. And the only cotoneaster I've seen was cream not yellow.Cheers, Ern
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15th August 2010, 10:37 AM #71
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I have a few bits of osage orange - they seem to be tempered rather than seasoned.
Cheers,
Jim
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15th August 2010, 12:27 PM #72
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15th August 2010, 09:04 PM #73
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16th August 2010, 01:41 AM #74
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The bench is the result of an exchange my grandfather did in the 60. As he had no more room to store and use his own workbench (a big one), he exchange it with this one. little, but old, battened and poorly constructed
ok, when I was young i contributed so much carving and decoratingthe front part, but it's called "patina" nowadays..
the bench is 85cm and I'm 180cm tall. quite comfortable, but the top has too much the sahara dunes effect to successfully planes on it again.
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16th August 2010, 10:42 AM #75
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I've just picked up 3 old blue handled Marples on Trademe for $30. I already had an old 3/4" one my dad gave me, and the 3 I've just bought are, very conveniently, 1/4", 1/2" and 1".
There seems to be some variable opinions of these out there. From what I can gather, the new ones are garbage but the old ones are actually pretty good. The ones I have would, I think, qualify as "old": at least 30 years, probably more.
Anyone had a go at rehandling these? It would be nice to have decent wooden handles on them. How do the plastic handles come off?