I was excited to receive a pair of Narex skewed paring chisels yesterday. They're as pretty as you please with their nice hornbeam handles:
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Out comes the acetone and I'm getting ready to flatten the backs and give them a good hone and polish. Oops. What's this?
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The back of each chisel has a little crater. One of them also has a hard metal bump on it (circled) that was never taken off. The edge of that same chisel also has a warped recess in it:
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That's not shipping goop. It's a metal deformity. I bought these through Amazon, and now I regret that. I have no idea if I can even return them, but I'll check into it.
As to what I'll do for a skewed set, I'm open to suggestions.