I have a canvas roll with leather reinforcement at the sharp end but I don't store them in the roll for the reason Orraloon points out. I don't have a rust problem in my workshop but have had problems with rust 'staining' on items stored in cloth or leather. I made a wet-pressed leather shoe for a No4 plane for transporting it in a toolbox. Forgot about it for around a year. When I took it out of the shoe the sole and sides were covered in 'contact' rust. Not a big deal, a light rub with wet and dry cleaned it up but an inconvenience all the same.
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of chisels. There was an implicit assumption that they would be out of the roll more than they would be in it. And went put away, like another poster mentioned, would inevitably have a little oil on them from the stones or the proverbial oily rag wipe-down before being put away. Furthermore, they would go down into a chest or at least a drawer and not be sitting out in atmosphere. The ones I'm using at the moment live in the well with other necessities. And as you can see, a Marples Blue Chip, a Marples mortise chisel, and another no-name Sheffield made chisel. Definitely not a collection with which one could make six mortgage payments.
