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Sorry if I'm boring you but I've got my anorak on and it's onward, onward with chisels, Little and large of the socket world 3ozs the Marples, 6ozs the Stanley and 36ozs the John Sorby which could actually do with a bigger handle with an iron hoop if it's ever going to build a London barge...

I really don't want to get back to the GW, PS conversations (respect where due to both gentlemen) but just realised I have a name stamp/punch G. Wilson (not sure where I got it from, have acquired the odd stamp occasionally, but also my mum's family was Wilson). And somewhere I have a tool with...

Ah well ----- I see no-one took my test on p2. The answers are that the small chisel is a Stanley Everlasting (from about 1930s on?), the larger are Wards Aristocrat (patented 1959, usually a set of 4,) both have steel bar through the wooden handle. The Wards also has no 'lands' at the side as...

they're talking to me and don't want to be described as mediocre look pretty fine from here, even if the Moulsons have it by a whisker

Friend of mine went to woodworking evening classes at college - well-respected teacher had lifetime's trade experience and all the papers plus teaching and safety quals and no wounds. Was teaching them safe planer use, distracted, took off the top of his thumb. Recovered and the following year...

Correct - and confession time - their state is partly down to me - wrapping in an oily rag was not enough for a damp shed - now I'll be thrown out of the lodge for chisel abuse. -- actually, like Groucho -- I wouldn't want to belong to any club that would accept me as a member

and a wee TEST, to make sure we're all back from our hols, here at the Lodge of the Grand Order of Chisellers: Below, for scale, is a Marples and Sons socket chisel, longer bladed version, (mid 20th C copy of American style, I'd say, and similar to various very pricey current chisels), but...

So that's what the dark stains on the end of some were ...... BLOOD ...... maybe I shouldn't have cleaned em up and kept this 'patina'

I wonder if the very long handle shape was a kind of insider thing with patternmakers? I've also seen patternmaker kits with chisels with a kind of squashed mini carver style handle. Self made obviously. Edit. Just seen Adam's reply -- thanks for that -- I hoped someone would know more -- any...

re your two posts -- gouges - I think not much used except for wood sculpture these days, but I have noted in some of the videos online of crafts people from the past working for a living that gouges are often used for doing much of the wood removal before finishing the edges square with a...

I expected a quick challenge on how many I need ...... Well as a wood butcher of many years, who'd love to be a refined cabinet maker, but isn't yet, I'd say about 4, but I do like 'em. And deciding to start this post at least got me fettling/cleaning/sharpening them.

And without even leaving paring chisels here are some more Cranked/offset/dogleg/trowel handle...(the widest is 2in) bevelled.... And gouges - various radii, narrowest 1/8th, I used not to like this style of handle, but really keen on it now - never seen it in a catalogue, but...

Thing is, I have been buying old chisels since 1980s, and the best junk shops are now gone, but today I'd say Chesterfield Market on Thurs, and then Sheffield 'antique quarter', especially when there's also a market --- please take the rest, so i'm spared temptation. what about Bradford - I...

It's just that my social worker said I should come to the meeting for support. I'm not a binge chiseller, it's just that I can't walk by a cheap good 'un in need of resto , and here in the Sheffield area, they're everywhere. I can quit, honest. It all came to a head when I stopped counting...

probably true in 2022, but historically all sorts of brass and bronze used - eg, until the 90s, all sorts of taps etc in the pub, and a little earlier, the dairy at home brass fittings for your drinking water still today Anyway - rug making it is, so 'no worries'

Did a little girl just shoot herself dead on Christmas day? Suffer the cihldren.

I'm not a builder, or surveyor, but re Mike's comment on rising damp: in my 1890 house: cellar, central brick supporting walls (ie far from any outside wall) strong efflorescence, even if brushed off many times, then chemical injection (by me, so not perfect) a couple of years ago now...

sad news today, USA just passed 100,000 annual death by drug overdose level (not including alcohol). this is a rise of 5x since 2000. I had 5 lovely younger American cousins of whom 3 are dead, two accidently, one drug related and a fourth had a close brush (alcohol). It certainly wasn't...

Agree with Jacob, but maybe you want something slightly more 'refined'? You say 'range', so I'm guessing you might like several, maybe even from the same maker or of the same style. If this is the case, I'd go for either a variety of Sheffield made chisels of similar style or one of the...

double-walled kettles - anyone use these? Should be able to do one boil for the morning's tea