"Lowell Holmes" <[email protected]> wrote
: Have any of you beveled the sides of your mortise chisels as Frank Klausz
: recommends?
On my web site is a discussion about this point. Please look under
'Mortising by Hand' - 'Finish of Chisel Walls'.
In brief, to use such a chisel, as it penetrates it needs to move along the
mortise in a direction away from the bevel.
: Did you draw file the sides or use some other method of working the metal?
Depending on the hardness of the chisel's temper, this might be difficult,
and is likely to prematurely wear the file.
Jeff G
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Thanks for the response.
The flattening the sides of the handle really makes sense.
"Howard Ruttan" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> "Lowell Holmes" wrote ...
> > Have any of you beveled the sides of your mortise chisels as Frank
Klausz
> > recommends?
>
> I would never do that. I have put a few miles on my favorite mortise
chisel
> and I find that the straight sides help me keep the mortise walls clean
and
> straight. I can cut a mortise so clean and fast with it I just can't see
> how beveling the sides would help (assuming you mean the steel - I have
the
> video but I haven't seen it in a while). I also have an old one(Marples,
I
> think) that does have beveled sides and the damn thing tends to wander all
> over for me). If you mean flattening the sides of the handle -
definitely.
> It provides a subconscious alignment aid to help you keep the mortise
> straight. YMMV
>
> --
>
> Cheers,
> Howard
>
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>
Thanks for the response. I learned from Paul Sellers at Homestead Heritage.
He uses blue handled Marple bench chisels. I built a rocking chair there
using the Marples. I suppose the whole discussion is somewhat academic in
nature.
OBTW, the chair had 42 m&t joints. It really wasn't that much work. I will
say that the LN Independence back saw and the LN 140 skewed plane (my own
tools) were a big help.
How's that for a drive-by? ;~)
"Jeff Gorman" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>
> "Lowell Holmes" <[email protected]> wrote
>
> : Have any of you beveled the sides of your mortise chisels as Frank
Klausz
> : recommends?
>
> On my web site is a discussion about this point. Please look under
> 'Mortising by Hand' - 'Finish of Chisel Walls'.
>
> In brief, to use such a chisel, as it penetrates it needs to move along
the
> mortise in a direction away from the bevel.
>
> : Did you draw file the sides or use some other method of working the
metal?
>
> Depending on the hardness of the chisel's temper, this might be difficult,
> and is likely to prematurely wear the file.
I suspected as much.
>
> Jeff G
>
> --
> Jeff Gorman, West Yorkshire, UK
> Email address is username@ISP
> username is amgron
> ISP is clara.co.uk
> Website www.amgron.clara.net
>
>
>
"Lowell Holmes" wrote ...
> Thanks for the response.
> The flattening the sides of the handle really makes sense.
...yer welcome.
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Cheers,
Howard
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"Lowell Holmes" wrote ...
> Have any of you beveled the sides of your mortise chisels as Frank Klausz
> recommends?
I would never do that. I have put a few miles on my favorite mortise chisel
and I find that the straight sides help me keep the mortise walls clean and
straight. I can cut a mortise so clean and fast with it I just can't see
how beveling the sides would help (assuming you mean the steel - I have the
video but I haven't seen it in a while). I also have an old one(Marples, I
think) that does have beveled sides and the damn thing tends to wander all
over for me). If you mean flattening the sides of the handle - definitely.
It provides a subconscious alignment aid to help you keep the mortise
straight. YMMV
--
Cheers,
Howard
----------------------------------------------------------
Working wood in New Jersey - [email protected]
Visit me in the woodshop - www.inthewoodshop.org