Hi Galoots
Well, apparently I needed to write today. I hope its not unpleasant.
I am really liking where this subject is heading!
I would appreciate seeing the triangular ground chisels??
And I would like to know if anyone thinks another geometry might work
even better?
I am thinking a whole triangular shaped chisel, say 1/2" where it
meets the socket, and then the whole Maryanne tapered in practically
every dimension to make, like an angular jointsticker?
Stiletto corner jabber? .... Or something?
What I am saying is that is has been too long since a took a piece of
innocent steel to the grinder and had at it.
Breathing grinding dust, can be addictive.
(as long as you watcha you ass, you'll be ok. Just don't get tooooooooo
greedy lol)
Taking a piece of hardened tool steel, and making it bow to your will,
is not nothing.
When its radically changed and you saw it happen? That is something.
Keep yer dunk cups handy Boys! heeheheh
Oh, and if there is a woman in your life, remember to wipe your teeth!
The worst telltale giveaway sign you have been dabbling in steel?
Yeah it accumulates on your front teeth. You smile at your sweetie and
she points and hollers............Little Rascals! @ !
Cause you look like Alfalfa.
So Conroy, did you really mount ebony handles on 2 1/2" chisels, and
can I see? I never had ebony chisel handles. I love the idea, just not
enough spare ebony, ever in my life, to make any.
Chisel blades I can get easy, it seems. They must just want to live at
my house. I have a drawer now.
And yet I still desperately need a 1/4" bevel edged chisel!
My heart was horribly broken recently.
So I still need a full length, straight, 1/4" socket chisel. I would
like the full 6" of blade, or near enough. Most any brand will do.
If its a 6" blade, plus the socket, chisel............. and its still
straight? It had to have been something in the first place. Nobody ever
made a bad 6" blade chisel is my point. Not that I ever saw anyway.
My heart is broken, because I found an actual Baker and Hamilton, San
Francisco chisel last year.
A full length 1/4" socket chisel. I bought a small lot of homeless
chisels just to get it.
But it was bent. And badly. And all my best tricks failed. I get to
save 3 out of 4, but there is still a 25% failure rate at straightening
old chisels. And the poor little B&H just exploded before my eyes. Along
with my nervous system and then my heart, one split second later.
Booooooooooooooo
Baker was an early wheeler dealer of near Gold Rush California. He
was partners on the first glassmaking enterprise (Baker and Cutting) and
then got involved in the first try at building a big hardware firm.
Baker and Hamilton.
The glass was a miserable failure, btw. B&C glass is poorly annealed
and it explodes at a touch.
Its killer beautiful, if you ever find a piece of it. Early, crude,
brilliantly colored, loaded with bubbles. Rare........ Everything a
bottle collector could ever want.
Just don't handle it much. lol
But Baker and Hamilton was a different story and the hardware business
was solid for many years.
Stiletto tools was Baker and Hamilton's house brand. They seemed to have
ordered quality goods, as every Stiletto marked tool I ever had was good
stuff.
Oh btw, some of the early Fulton's were pretty damn good. Sears went
from one maker to another over the years, always looking for a cheaper
price.
(and we have the nerve to complain about quality?)
But occasionally, they were forced to buy quality merchandise.
Some of the Fulton were good...... Most were not, but some of them.
By the time they got to Dunlap though, it was pretty much construction
tools from there on out. Sears went to mostly the construction market.
Can't blame them.
100 carpenters for every joiner/cabinetmaker. Follow the money.
yours Scott
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Scott Grandstaff
Box 409 Happy Camp, Ca 96039
scottg@s...
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