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  1. #16
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    Today I learned that butt chisels can be very useful when installing butt hinges.
    From Lee Valley's description of their butt chisels:

    Butt chisels got their name from their popularity in installing butt hinges.
    Over the years of buying groups of chisels a lot of them had been well used by previous owners and became fairly short.

    They have a place of their own in the back of a drawer with my most used chisels:

    Buck Bros & Butt Chisels.jpg

    There might actually be two from the same maker, though one is marked Witherby and the other is a Karpenter brand (both made by Winstead Edge Tool Company).

    jtk
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    I’m calling this done. I shaped the handles and carved a recess on the bottom of them with a gouge. I used two coats of milk paint, then a coat of wax. You can still see the grain through the paint, which I like. I decided against side handles, because I don’t think this will be moved often. I just shaped a little tab to be the door catch.

    for anything else in pine I’ll spend more time getting higher quality boards. The knots in this look rough, but I think it will work fine for a tool chest.

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    Looks good.

    jtk
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    Well done, great gift.
    Jim

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