Good source for Hollow Chisels for mortiser

[Andrew Nemeth]

After jumping on the Jet Hollow Chisel Mortiser deal on ebay using MS Cashback I will be looking for a set of Hollow chisels. Does anyone have a good source for a high quality set of chisels for it? Are there better brands than others?

[Jay Jolliffe]

Lee Valley

[Rod Sheridan]

A second vote for Lee Valley........Rod.

[John Grogan]

I bought the mortiser as well and bought the chisels at holbren

[Mitchell Andrus]

Fish brand are to only ones I'll use. Tried them all, worth the extra few dollars, trust me. Sometimes the Delta house brand are Fish. You'll see a small fish on the shank.

[Joe Spear]

Do you mean Fisch? I can't find a Fish brand anywhere. Of course, fisch means fish in German.

[Dan Lee]

I also use Fisch chisels. Have used Clico which I didn't thinkk were worth the cost. Whatever you get buy the cones for honing the insides. And polish the outsides I think I used 120 thru 1000 grit sand paper

[Andrew Nemeth]

Do you have a source for the Fisch chisels? I was looking on their website and it directed me to Amazon but I didn't find anything on there yet.

I also came across CMT chisels. Does anybody on here have experience with their hollow chisels? I use their router bits on occasion and have been impressed.

[John Thompson]

I use the CMT on my 650 lb. Industrial floor mortiser with excellent results. I have used the Lee Valley and they are excellent out of the box but are more expensive than the CMT's which are also very good at a reasonable price. I didn't personally care for the Fisch when I tried them.

Sarge..

[Joseph Hadley]

I had a need for a 3/4" Hollow chisel and ended up buying a very expensive one from Morris Tool. I was building a pair of large doors with a total of 20 3/4" through mortises. The Morris chisel and bit cost around $150 kidney punches. The first one arrived with the points curved inward...result of a bad sharpening/polishing job at Morris. They agreed to FedEx a new one, but I had to pay in advance for the new one, with a refund coming when I mailed back the first one. The second one arrived with straight sides, but the hole for the bit was way off-center. I ended up grinding the first one down to just under 3/4". The steel is great, but their production and quality control is lousy. Nice enough people, but I couldn't believe they were letting this stuff out of their shop, especially at that price.

For smaller hollow chisels, I too vote for the Japanese units sold by Lee Valley. Very precise, needing very little work to get them flat, polished and ready to go.

Good luck with it!

JD

[Mitchell Andrus]

Do you mean Fisch? I can't find a Fish brand anywhere. Of course, fisch means fish in German.

Potato, potatoe... whatever.

"Teach a man to fisch...."
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[James Boster]

I have also used the CMT with great results. I got mine through woodcraft.

[Joe Spear]

Potato, potatoe... whatever.

"Teach a man to fisch...."
.

I was just asking because I did come across a brand of Swedish bench chisels that have a fish on them and wondered if it the same company made hollow mortising chisels. They don't.