First go with a mortise chisel so my techniques probably not that good. It's a lot easier than a bevel edged chisel breezed through an 100mm offcut of c16 and the handle held up fine
I work as an electrician in student land in Sheffield and grab all the roof joists and perlings ripped out of old houses I see in skips had a lot of good free wood for projects and firewood
I use very thin straight grained stock to set up iron square taking a very light cut and trying it on both sides until shavings are identical it doesn't have to be out of square by much to get what your describing
Tool chest I'm working on just in the process of lining the drawers using custards method still yet to decide what I'm doing with the bottom storage below drawers
https://ukwoodcraftandcarbidechisels.co.uk/penturningchiselset.html
I have the large set they're pretty good calue for money and got me started since then ive moved to hss tools
Nice old soldering iron for 20p I hope to use in my copper sculptures hopefully I get a lot less heat transfer than when using a torch with previous joints springing open again
sign post bird feeding station all wood and metal is recycled feeders are bought
pine bed legs for base offcuts of oak fooring for sign post m&t construction rings of yew oak dowels for landing pads recycled copper pipe for copper bits
Definitely a spoon bit most of ones I've seen are shaped like a wood carving gouge not to a point. And some started life as a nose bits and go re profiled to spoon bits