Strange chisel??

[steven c newman]

Did a bit of Rust Hunting today. Picked up a couple saws, a Millers falls 900, and two chisels. 266346266347266348The saws are nothing real special, as is the plane. The one chisel with the wood handle is a "Corsair 1" wide as is the strange one. Never have seen a ferrel like that..266349266350I'd turn a new handle for it, if I knew what shape it was..

[steven c newman]

Stamped into the ferrel; "Cleveland File CO" "Super Duty"

End of the tang is split into a couple of layers.

Chisel body has what looks like a "Made in USA" above a pair of lines. inside the lines are some capital letters, only two I can make out are a CK???

[george wilson]

The chisel with a handle its the type I could afford back in the 50's. They cost about 50 cents. That was what I had to work with for some years. That,and a cheap gray hardware stone. I spent lots of time stropping it on paper to get the chisel pretty sharp. I was a camp counsellor one Summer,and carved a totem pole with it and a pocket knife! Probably still in the Community Center in Norfolk. Also used it a lot in guitar making.

[steven c newman]

The wood handled one is labeled as a CORSAIR TOOL STEEL USA and is 1" wide. Really quite thin though, along the edges. The non-handles one has a ferrel marked for the Cleveland File CO. and is also marked as a "SUPER DUTY" one. Both chisel have a flair along the tang, right where it would enter the handle.266398266399266400266401As for this "Salt Shaker ferrel", ever see one like it?

[george wilson]

I haven't seen the salt shaker ferrule before. Strange design.

[steven c newman]

Have downloaded new tote patterns for the saws. Trying to find out what shape of handle that Salt Shaker ferrel had. Hooped? Butt style? Long & round? Couldn't be like that Corsair, handle is too skinny. Base of the ferrel is 1" id. Would this be a paring style, or just one to whack with a mallet.


Tang on it's chisel has been split, upper and lower slice. Maybe it was supposed to spread out as you drove it into the handle??

[steven c newman]

Chisel now has a "new" handle, and is ready to pare a joint or two