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Thank you all for your expertise!

I just worked on one with problems:
1) Bent socket
2) wrinkled socket
3) peened over socket
4) bevel ground on both sides
5) no handle

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I have ~500 beat up old chisels from Ebay.
I have put a new handle on and sharpened ~250.
I do about one chisel restoration per week.

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I modified a grinder to run CNB discs for sharpening chisels.
I cut the time to restore a chisel by hours.

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My father's Millers Falls drill handle broke in 1956 and he repaired it poorly.

In 2020 I cloned a correct handle and knob.

I am constantly dealing with stuck screws, drilling and tapping holes.
There is some equipment, skill, judgement, and risk involved.
Practice on things that don't matter as much.
Having a mill and...

398806My friend turned a Walnut tree in his backyard into a dining room table, but making a sawmill with a 50cc chainsaw.
I like small projects, like chisel handles.

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I made a new handle from a scrap of Rock hard maple.
I changed the angle of the cutting edge.

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Thank you very much for the two responses!

My Douglas chisel seems to have a not original rear hoop. It looks like water pipe.
The handle looks like Hickory with varnish, but is very...

I have hoarded tools from garage sales. Every chisel, screwdriver, and wrench I bought for years.
They are mostly in drawers.

I used the Lee Valley modern woodworking bench plans to build a...

I have been sick, and just buying and repairing broken chisels off ebay until I get better.
A little grinding, sharpening, and handle making.
A chisel a day.

I wish I knew what brand this is.
...

Same steering wheels on as this bench.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIDC3o2dwCQ

I got the $300 Delta fence 3 years ago.
I had been living with the original delta since 1982.
If I had any idea what an improvement it makes, I would have done it long ago.
Very happy now, using...

I purchased some parallel pliers this week from Ebay and were without a center pin.
I sent the seller a message and he called me. We shot the bull about the used tool business.
He is 71 and...

My father used air as a spring. Israel still uses the M55 70 years later.
it was to balance the weight of an artillery barrel.
He had a problem that a spring is Hooke's law F = kx.
That was what...

Eric,
In 1984 I bought the Lee Valley modern bench plans for $20 and built a 400 pound bench from $2.50/board foot rock hard Maple.
I found about 10 errors in the plans, it was hard work chopping...

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I changed the edge angle to be twice as shallow and got rid of the bevel on the back side.

I was tolerating just blue color.

These two cost $5 each delivered.
I thought the Witherby...

If there are colors like this, does it mean the tip has lost is temper and I should grind that part off?

I have a wet wheel delta grinder and a couple other grinders.

TIA

Thanks for posting that. It felt like I knew what he was saying.

OK, I ripped the glue joint.
MY 28 year old Delta contractors saw with Jet fence and Harbor Freight blade did anything but cut straight.
The jointer with opposite fence sides looked like it made a...

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I did not add an end piece.
I milled a radius into the board for a finger hold.

I have some 1.5" square 8' lengths of Ironwood, that are normally sold for making decks, but I like to make chisel handles from them.

What would be nice is if I could chuck pieces right into the 3...

My father bought a grinder like that in the 1950s.

It is still in use, but the glass guards are lost.

I am grateful for this thread. It led me to this sawmill creek forum with Google.

I found a wood chisel in a junk pile about to be thrown out.

It had no handle and had been pounded on the metal...