Greetings, all, got a socketed chisely-slicky thing from the editor of a
magazine I write for.  Seems he lives in Maine, where he can't turn around
without some old tool or another getting in his way.

[insert 'free tool from a friend' gloat here]

Anyway, I wasn't sure if it's a slick or a chisel - with a 2" wide, 6" long
blade, it could just be a mondo framing chisel, but without the handle I
can't tell.  It does seem to have a bit of a curve along the blade, like I
seem to remember slicks having (the better to pare a flat surface with, my
dear) but it's not a very pronounced curve.

Without a clear maker's stamp or a handle, any ideas on what else I can use
to pin this thing down?  I'll probably make a long, slick-esque handle for
it (only because I always thought slicks were cool...), but don't want to
get laughed at for calling a potato a fish.  Knowhatimean?

Steve Pugh wrote:
>

>
> Without a clear maker's stamp or a handle, any ideas on what else I can use
> to pin this thing down?  I'll probably make a long, slick-esque handle for
> it (only because I always thought slicks were cool...), but don't want to
> get laughed at for calling a potato a fish.  Knowhatimean?

As I remember the socket for a slick would be set at an angle such that the bac
k
can lay flat on the work without the handle interfering.

-Ken

Date:  (Date Unavailable)

What could I use?

A shoulder rabbet plane halfway between the size of an 043 and an 073

Ed Minch