In the Beginning . . .
…it didn’t get used. In teaching students how to slice out a dovetail with saw strokes and chisels the ingredient for success started to gestate. What was that? Simple. It…
…it didn’t get used. In teaching students how to slice out a dovetail with saw strokes and chisels the ingredient for success started to gestate. What was that? Simple. It…
…chopping with bevel-edged chisels rather than mortise chisels was mostly trial and error based on previous experiences and changed attitudes. None of it was or is too scientific because I…
…fail by breaking, or have some built-in faults from low quality standards in manufacture or materials used. Aldi chisels for example are extremely cheap in price, but the chisels tick…
Sharpening chisels—forget weaker micro bevels Controversial though it may seem, and though adopting micro-bevel methods for sharpening chisels may seem to make sense, a freehand convex bevel actually gives exactly…
…to do another mortising YouTube video on it. You won’t believe how efficient and clean it is. Talking of mortising, I just took delivery of the Narex mortising chisels. We…
…and mortise chisels, chisels of every type. The guys where bright-eyed with their finds and I doubt that they would leave their finds for more than an hour before they…
…a fraction of a minute and got on with the work. Some chisels we sharpened to 35-degrees, but we never ever checked any angle with a protractor, but you can…
…of working wood and and the sharpening methods and stones they used seemed almost but not quite inconsequential. They sharpened their chisels and planes as they dulled and got on…
…flatness. I know many companies establish some very sophisticated equipment to create flattened surfaces to plane irons and chisels within half a thou. On the other hand there are many…
…to run parallel lines lightly into the surface of wood to guide subsequent work with other tool such as saws, chisels and planes. The lines are made with single and…