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| vtsteam:
I was wondering myself about using the steel in wde brick chisels for home forged tools, since they can be sharpened and case hardening would't work for that. They are usually much more substanial than wood chisels and there's a nice wide slab of metal there. Also big cold chsels found at tag sales sometimes. I have had good luck forging, hardening, and tempering older leaf springs from junkyards. I don't know about whether newer ones are case hardened. Some are fberglass. :( For anyone who wants to make their own woodworking and stone working hand tools, a must read is Andrew Weygers two blacksmithing books. |
| awemawson:
If you are prepared to forge it, rebar is usually hardenable, certainly ok for masonry chisels |
| S. Heslop:
--- Quote from: awemawson on April 19, 2015, 09:02:51 AM ---Beware that many modern files are only case hardened - not true of older ones --- End quote --- I got some old one here, Made in Sunderland. They were throwing a whole bunch of worn files out at Tanfield Railway and I asked if I could have any sharp-enough ones. Wish I knew at the time that the steel itself was worth keeping, since there were alot of totally blunt files I left behind. |
| S. Heslop:
I spent a few days reading up on wood lathe chisels and didn't really find much information on how to handle heavy internal interrupted cuts. Plus with the whole arrangement not being too rigid to begin with it seemed kinda dodgy. So I thought i'd try something different. It's a wooden arrangement built similar to a metal lathe cross-slide. Alot of the details in this cad are missing since i'm probably going to figure that stuff out in person. Parts rough cut and arranged. Used wood glue to attach the paper templates (I was going to mark it out properly but somehow all 3 of my tape measures have gone missing), and it was tough to get off with a chisel. So I tried just sanding it. And... oh... looking at this photo, i've glued these parts on upside down. Hope that glue is still soft so I can separate them. |
| S. Heslop:
Could just barely separate them. I'll let the residual glue dry and send them through the drum sander tomorrow. I'm getting alot of use out of that machine, much more useful than the spindle sander. Also I think I jumped the gun on declaring this project dead. Turns out trying to set a business up involves alot of waiting. |
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