Chisel
[definitely incomplete -- we need some images] In
"Chisels and other paring
tools", Paul Hasluck, 1903: 35-59) combines diagrams,
illustrations and descriptive text showing amateur woodworkers many
aspects about these venerable woodworking tools.
Butt
chisel
A chisel about 7" to 9" in length. Used for cutting
recesses for hinges, locks and so forth, where accuracy of cutting is
essential. home craftsman 4 may june 1935 p 220
Firmer
chisel
For rough work, a chisel designed to stand up to
being beaten
by a hammer or mallet.
The
make selected should be the FIRMER-CHISEL, the form of which is shown
in Fig. 5. These are made in sixteen graduated widths, from 1/8 inch to
2 inches, but the following eight sizes will be sufficient for all
ordinary purposes, 1/8, 1/4, 3/8, 1/2, 3/4, 1, 1 1/2, and 2
inches. The amateur, in the earlier stages of his operations, will
probably find several of these sizes unnecessary; but as such chisels
are not expensive articles, he may fairly aim at possessing the
suggested selection if not the complete set. He will, of course,
purchase the chisels handled and ready for final
sharpening.
Source: George
Ashdown Audsley, Amateur Joinery in the Home: a Practical
Manual for the Amateur Joiner on the Construction of Articles of
Domestic Furniture Boston: Small, Maynard &
Co, 1916, page 42.
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A chisel
about a foot long capable of withstanding the driving blows of a
mallet or hammer. It often is capped with leather.
Source:
Home Craftsman 4 May-June
1935 page 220. |
My
Firmer Chisel for
[rough work] is less delicate, a beater firmer chisel with a
polycarbonate handle and a 4-inch blade, of a type that is
sometimes called a Pocket Chisel, which refers to
its length (6 to 8 inches) and to where it lives: it lives in a pocket
of my toolpouch, and serves for most rough work. It was designed to be
struck—brace yourself—with a hammer, although
that's carrying heavy-duty a bit far. Remodelers often keep one of
these expendables for general use, or else a sturdy mortise chisel
(larger, wood-handled, with an overall length upwards of a foot.) The
blades are often quite short from repeated grinding after hitting
nails. Source:
Jeff Taylor, Tools
of the Trade: The Art and Craft of Carpentry (San
Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1996) page 133.
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Skew
chisel
A chisel with a
straight-cutting edge running at an angle to the handle and beveled on
its two flat sides.
Source: Home
Craftsman 4 May-June 1935 page 220.
Sources: Paul Hasluck, The Handyman's Book London: Cassell, 1903 [reprinted in paperback format, 1998], pages 35-59; George
Ashdown Audsley, Amateur Joinery in the Home: a
Practical Manual for the Amateur Joiner on the Construction of Articles
of Domestic Furniture Boston: Small,
Maynard & Co, 1916; Home
Craftsman 4 May-June 1935 p 220; Jeff Taylor, Tools
of the Trade: The Art and Craft of Carpentry San
Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1996, page 133.
