On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 6:43 PM, Joshua Clark 
wrote:

> I recently found this W. Jessop chisel:
>
> http://
www.hyperkitten.com/pics/tools/interesting/c1192.html
>
> It's all steel and measures 10in long.  The blade has the look and feel of
> a mortise chisel, but it's only 1/32 wide at the bevel. It's very sharp,
> clearly an edge tool The thin blade is extremely flexible, as you see in
> the last photo.
>
> Is it a chisel? Anyone every seen something like this?


Josh
Did Jessop make tools, or just tool steel?  Their catalog looks like they
might have supplied the base stock for that tool, which was user made

https://ia902300.us.archive.org/1/items/JessopsGenuineSheffieldSteels/J
essop%27s%20Genuine%20Sheffield%20Steels_text.pdf">https://ia902300.us.archive.o
rg/1/items/JessopsGenuineSheffieldSteels/Jessop%27s%20Genuine%20Sheffield%20Stee
ls_text.pdf

WAG: Not knowing how engravers work, that seems like it might be useful in
that trade?

Kirk in HMB, who pretty much wasted another beautiful day doing trivial
stuff.