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Sizer and a scrubbing brush with a long and intensive (pref hot) pressure wash, blasting all ways especially if it's been machined at all.

Yes 25/30 degrees is correct.(wrong word really as these angles can be highly variable) I'm guessing whomever made it didn't bother to...

I dried a freshly sawn burr oak slab 2 inch thick outside under a load of other stuff and a plastic roof. It's now parts of my kitchen...

And for a carefully molly coddled set of shop chisels I totally agree with your thoughts. But most every wooden chisel ive seen are...

No, there are winners and losers, some commit suicide others fall by the wayside(in asia) but everyone that makes it through can be...

I'm not saying wood handles are a bad thing really. There just impractical compared with a plastic handle and a hammer. Mallets feel a...

It's very hard to argue against better and higher education. The way the universities fulfilled this want was what was errant. I have no...

The world moves on. Education needs to enable young people to thrive in the world in which they will spend their working lives, not one...

Having an economy whose succes is based on increasing house prices results in a lot of nothing. Why bother innovating. Money and...

There is double boiled linseed oil a available as well(mostly for burnt sand mastic)

It does raise the question of whether this type of work will ever be anything but a labour of love in the future. Whenever I've done...

Those narex richters look nice but there over long for me. Also the wooden handles mean I cant t@#t them with the cold steel! There way...

I can't recommend any other stanley chisels as I've not tried them the new dynagrips especially look very clumsy and aren't made in...

They've got large ends for hitting(unlike blue chips which I tend to give glancing blow) the steel must have some chromium as they don't...

Stanley Dynagrip Chisels Need Sharpening Search on ebay for examples.