chisels

[Artificer]

Reminded me to look up the link:
https://www.woodcraft.com/products/pfeil-swiss-made-chip-carving-knife-9

Gus

 

[Ames]

Thanks! It's just what I need!

 

[eggwelder]

nice.

 

[Obi-Wan Cannoli]

how about a knife?

standard x-acto knife.


pfeil is my favorite chisel brand.

Take two 2x12 (or whatever is close to that size) pine boards, about 12" long (or whatever is convenient for your bench), glue them together to make a 4x12 block and place in a vice or clamp until dry. Once dry, use a forstner bit (I think an inch?) to drill holes 3/4 of the way down, somewhat closely together, evenly and in rows. 30+ holes. Place chisels tip up. Now you have a handy spot to store all of your chisels to move them, organize them, not let the tips get banged up or knocked off your table, etc. Just be careful when reaching for one or you'll slice your hand open (the convenience was worth the price of band aids for me).

 

[Ames]

Sorry. Cant do it.
A finish carpenter all of 35 years plus, I was taught never to store bench blades blade up. Just for that reason.
Stubborn SOB that I am, I also learned how to ice it, take a shot, and stitch yourself up after those gashes. Im getting good at the stiches. :haha:
Plus blood stains are a beeyach to get out of a maple stock.

 

[Stophel]

Best chisels? Old ones. I especially like Buck Brothers, and if I ever run across one, I'll buy it even if I don't "need" it. But just about anything older will be good quality. I have a couple of new Buck Brothers chisels, and though I haven't really used them yet, they seem fine (and still USA, believe it or not).

For actual carving, a great deal of it can be (and was 200+ years ago) done with a fine "V" Parting Tool (NOT a "veiner"... as so many want to call it). Mine is a Pfeil. I have a variety of odd smaller chisels, in addition to my regular "bench" chisels, which I use more often than anything. I have some Henckels chisels and some of the flat "blank" chisels that one of the ML suppliers sells that I have ground down to very small size mostly for inletting triggers and ramrod pipe tenons.

For large gouges, I like Pfeil. For smaller ones, I really like some of the store brand small "hand size" gouges that were sold by Woodcraft. I just looked, and they don't have them listed like that anymore, but have apparently the same ones by "Ramelson"...at twice the price they used to be.

 

[Obi-Wan Cannoli]

Sorry. Cant do it.

That's probably the smart thing to do. I also have a similar set up, though smaller with smaller holes, for my swiss files and rifflers (also really handy and probably not safe). As for the chisels, I learned that carefully getting the few you plan on using that day before you do anything and leaving the rest in the holder at the back of your bench will greatly reduce my chances of "in the heat of the moment" blindly grabbing one while in the middle of something injuries.

 

[Artificer]

My Paternal Great Great Grandfather was a Rough Carpenter in the last part of the 19th century and he taught that trade as well as had my Grandfather instructed in being a Finish Carpenter for a while, though he decided to become a Machinist. I have a couple of my GG Grandpa's chisels and they are made by James Swan and excellent chisels. Grandpa had some made by English/UK makers J.B. Addis & Sons, Henry Taylor, and Robert Sorby; but his prized chisels were made by Winchester and presented him by his Maternal Grandmother.

Gus

 

[Obi-Wan Cannoli]

I like Dastra for smaller chisels.

 

[MSW]

has anyone tried the wine cork thing? (you drive a winecork over the sharp edge, which keeps [most] of the blood on the inside)

 

[Artificer]

has anyone tried the wine cork thing? (you drive a winecork over the sharp edge, which keeps [most] of the blood on the inside)

My Grandpa did something that with his Winchester Chisels that were rolled up in a Winchester marked Cloth Roll. He used corks that were smaller than wine corks, but the same idea.

I prefer to hang chisels, cutting ends down, on a Peg Board in wood holder, something like the one in the link below: http://www.tool-rank.com/images/2011/pegboard_screwdriver_holder.jpg

Some folks hang them in metal tool holders like this or with circular hole holders, the first one similar to the link below: http://www.5ssupply.com/wp-content...-Hook-Multi-Prong-Tool-Holder-8-18-inch-W.jpg

Either way, they are set smallest to largest from one side or the other.

Gus

 

[Artificer]

P.S. I've also seen folks make a sort of open ends wood box with holes in the top for the chisels and they attach it to a thicker board on the bottom, so it can be stored on the bench and the whole thing picked up and taken near the work when needed, then returned when done.

Gus