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I had something like the tool in the top photo - with a blade width of about 3in and a kind of mini spade handle - the closest I could get was a de-barker or barking spud, especially some of the French versions. Used either just for removing bark to dry wood without rot or to remove bark...

Ward (WP=Ward&Payne) made laminated steel pig sticker mortice chisels from approx mid 19th to mid 20th C and maybe some later solid carbon steel. Are you proposing also to forge this into shape?

in summary, do you still think the dots are particles, not pullout? still look like holes to me, but know it can be deceptive

Went there, enjoyed it, talked to many, saw some great old and new tools, bought a couple and sold a few, both cases to fine dealers. Is a good place for such an event also interesting rolling countryside and pleasant villages. Thanks to organisers.

I have succumbed to public pressure and am preserving this chisel for posterity - may remove some surface rust, which is not too bad, and the edge, though rounded, is sharpish - it may have been aggravated by the flea market being outside on a wet day. What I like is that not only was the chisel...

And when they've responded to that one, maybe you could ask them to show their collections of einlasseisen fur aufsatzbander epecially if it should include a fischbandeisen?

Just found another catalogue with these in (Austrian 1909) -- one (fischbandeisen) is shaped like the barbed Neptune's Triton spear (or an eel fishing spear) the other like a thin plugging chisel, both come in several widths and thicknesses from 1.25-3.25mm, so obviously a very specific slot...

And then I find this (sold in uk),,, obviously from the same family of chisels(?), but for the life of me can't see how it might work, especially with that wrong way outside taper. BTW the points and the 'shovel' are sharp. Looks like it's never been used. (when I first acquired it I thought...

I had a couple of mortice chisels with trad 'pigstick' handles that were definitely made (not by me) from old industrial hack saw blades - a little thicker than yours Ted, but not much. They had wedged on bolsters. So.... next subject ..... what the heck are these chisels .... First saw...

Been reading him for a while. He's certainly knowledgeable, but can be v. intolerant of other ways/views. And of course he's selling the tools. On the Japanese chisels - he's interesting in pointing out that all the Damascus steel versions sold so much by Western dealers are not favoured by...

Agree with RC Z-- also there's been a lot of hype about cryo for at least 20 years, but little in the way of good evidence, more like anecdotal, less scientific, although I'm quite prepared to believe it may have some benefits for some alloys in some uses.

Let's keep em coming. Anyone else see or use this little extra angled bevel --- both these are more or less as found (ages ago), both very solid old chisels, not just firmer, maybe would be framers or marine, one Ward and Payne, one Henry Taylor, and I saw a similar bevel in a page of an old...

Here's another - also a couple of scrapers/chisels poss patternmaker style ... both to continue themes as above. The round ended bevel chisels were from a flea market stall where the only other chisels were a couple of long cranked gouges as used by patternmakers, but the stall owner knew...

They would make nice sturdy scrapers for finishing a fillet on a pattern?

Nice. Well done 'unseizing' -- yes it does look like swivel, and swivels are notorious for sticking tight keep at it , tap, oil tap oil wallop etc. Marples had a very similar clamp on maybe from the same source (anyone know if I Sorby was one of the brands they acquired?) but I didn't remember...

I believe this was a Stanley Sheffield project, under the (Stanley USA) brand Sweetheart. Plane bodies being made by Stanley Mexico and the steel for blades by Stanley in their Sheff works. Assembly, packing etc in Sheffield. As well as smoothing planes there was at least one type of shoulder...

talking of treacle tins , remember when they were mugs and kettles for tea , over a brazier?

interesting However, the crucible steel itself (the hard cutting edge) will not show this as it is a refined, homogenised high carbon (.8 - 1.5%) steel --- where you often see a good pattern is the wrought iron backing (more visible on heavy chisels) this is caused by the directional rolling...

thanks for all your analysis, dw. I have found similar effects while simply going though my (too many) chisels doing a mass sharpen -- the socketed US types don't seem to be taking quite the edge of the classic Ward or Sorby etc. (haven't yet got on go some socket Marples made in the 20s-50s in...

Forgotten the name, but isn't that for the joint where thin glazing bars meet, with positioning and overshoot protection built in? You do have a fine collection, Ted ...... Keep 'em coming.