Skip Helms
08-05-2016, 3:08 AM
Hi Everybody,
I just got an NOS Pexto socket chisel on the Bay. It is dead mint -- never been honed -- the handle has never been pounded into the socket and there is still a little bubble of lacquer on the very end of the wood from when it was dipped into the vat. The edge is 7/8" with square sides. It's is pretty heavy and the steel is slightly curved so that it can lay almost flat on a workpiece.
I told my wife I thought it was probably around a hundred years old but that was a guess. I'm not really sure when PS&W began branding their chisels with the circled Pexto label. This is my fourth Pexto chisel of around this vintage and certainly the shiniest. I like them.
If anyone has an idea of the range of years these were made, I'd love to read your thoughts. Thanks, Skip
341980
PS: I'm not a collector. This will be sharpened-up and used when needed. sh
I just got an NOS Pexto socket chisel on the Bay. It is dead mint -- never been honed -- the handle has never been pounded into the socket and there is still a little bubble of lacquer on the very end of the wood from when it was dipped into the vat. The edge is 7/8" with square sides. It's is pretty heavy and the steel is slightly curved so that it can lay almost flat on a workpiece.
I told my wife I thought it was probably around a hundred years old but that was a guess. I'm not really sure when PS&W began branding their chisels with the circled Pexto label. This is my fourth Pexto chisel of around this vintage and certainly the shiniest. I like them.
If anyone has an idea of the range of years these were made, I'd love to read your thoughts. Thanks, Skip
341980
PS: I'm not a collector. This will be sharpened-up and used when needed. sh