A follow-up
…also have very specific chisels that are called paring chisels. These chisels are long-reach chisels designed to reach into inner surfaces such as long dado-housings or pare cutting a few…
…also have very specific chisels that are called paring chisels. These chisels are long-reach chisels designed to reach into inner surfaces such as long dado-housings or pare cutting a few…
…see these chisels as low grade and second rate. If you need a good set of lifetime chisels, a second set, or a set for the kids and grand kids,…
…the side bevels. I have done all of the above with so-called premium chisels. MHG’s main-line production chisels, the former producer of Aldi chisels when they stocked them, are better…
…my now more ‘vintage’ set of Aldi chisels. As you can see, even though I very rarely if ever grind my chisels on electric-powered grinding wheels, after 13 years of…
…chisels such as we use on the more refined bevel-edged chisels used in refining and making different joints such as dadoes, housings, wide tenons and sliding dovetails across wider boards….
…how much damage they do to their chisel edges. So, I then scraped the chisels tested across the surface of the same grain as shown and applying much pressure. I…
…I have mortise chisels too, but, even though I have mortis chisels, I have just cut 68 mortise and tenon joints, most of them in oak, using the Narex bevel-edge…
…chisels mostly, with some registered mortise chisels and some boxwood B/E chisels. Not one of these edges will be a bad edge I can pretty much guarantee it. They will…
…a good edge. He then went on to ask if high end chisels really offered a better option, naturally basing his assumption on his personal chisels, non Aldi chisels, deteriorating…
…did what all buyers for such stores do and they dropped the chisels from their product line and added the ugliest most useless beater-chisels to replace them. Oh well! So…