A chisel and a homemade skew

[Shawn Stennett]

Just a chisel that I got at a flea market and one from ebay that was in bad shape. The one from theflea market I just cleaned up and sharpened, the one from ebay I remade into a skew following the article from a FWW.175986
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Also there is a picture of a Dovetail marker I made today as well.

[Roy Lindberry]

Just a chisel that I got at a flea market and one from ebay that was in bad shape. The one from theflea market I just cleaned up and sharpened, the one from ebay I remade into a skew following the article from a FWW.175986
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Also there is a picture of a Dovetail marker I made today as well.

I read that article recently as well, and am thinking about making a skew. I noticed that you seem to have had the same thought as me regarding the angle, which is that a little more of an angle might be preferable. The author (I can't remember who wrote it offhand), I believe, was putting a very mild angle on his, but I thought something more severe would work better in half-blinds and for other things.

[Paul Incognito]

Nice job on the chisels. I made a fishtail chisel like the one Rob C uses in his half blind dovetail video.
How did you make the dovtail marker? I made a similar one using a hacksaw and it could be better.
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[Shawn Stennett]

I started with a hacksaw too then to a grinder.

[James Phillips]

Garrett Hack wrote the article I believe. As far as the angle goes, he has been doing this for a long time and remember the quote, "Learn from others mistakes, you do not have time to make them all yourself". I would go only steep enough that it gets to the corners.

I also just made one from one of my old blue handle Irwins and plan to make atleast one more in a different size.

[Shawn Stennett]

To be quite honest, I started off intending on using the 18 degrees that he suggested but it didn't happen that way. Sometime in the grinding process I got off on my angle and by the time I noticed I had already ground the bevel. So I left it like it was to try it out.

[Dan Andrews]

Very nice work Shawn.
I'll bet you enjoyed it while saving many $$$.

[Shawn Stennett]

To be honest the DT guide was not worth the trouble really. I did enjoy the Stanley Skew I made though, I used it today, and I made a handle for the stanley 720 (I think) also.

[Johnny Kleso]

Funny but I was just at the book store checking out the article too..

Looks like yu did a pretty good job grinding..
While looking at the artical it did not look like Garrett used a tool rest, I would have :)

[Roy Lindberry]

Garrett Hack wrote the article I believe. As far as the angle goes, he has been doing this for a long time and remember the quote, "Learn from others mistakes, you do not have time to make them all yourself". I would go only steep enough that it gets to the corners.


I reread the article today while I was at my dad's house. I must have missed the part where he said that it might be tempting to go with a steeper angle, but don't. He said that the chisel would tend to move on you. So, if/when I get around to making one, I will take his advice.

[Shawn Stennett]

I didn't have any trouble grinding really and it worked really well on a few half blinds I did today. It did take a while to grind to keep it cool, but after the bevel grind it was easy to sharpen. I got this one off ebay where to seller forgot to mention that it had a huge gouge taken out of the back near the tip whereI would have to take a huge amount of material off the back to flatten. I was able to get it out when I ground the angle thats why I chose that direction of angle for the skew.

[Shawn Stennett]

This is the handle for the Flea Market, a thanks go to Pat Zabrocki for the wood.

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