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Title: Keeping chisels sharp
Post by: RussellT on November 07, 2013, 12:00:53 PM

I recently sharpened some chisels and was about to put them in a box with other tools for transport when it occurred to me that shaking them around with the other tools was likely to damage the sharp edges I'd just created.

I came up with a quick solution.  This is so easy and simple that I nearly didn't post it but I hadn't seen it before so maybe others haven't.

For these pictures I took a chisel from the pile on the shelf - these are my chisels that suffer varying degrees of abuse depending on the job.  I also have sharp ones somewhere else.

Here's the pile of chisels, one with a moulded plastic edge protector.
(http://www.hockerley.50webs.com/sharp/pile.jpg)

Here's an old handbag.
(http://www.hockerley.50webs.com/sharp/bag.jpg)

I cut two scraps from the handbag.
(http://www.hockerley.50webs.com/sharp/cut.jpg)

I stapled them together.
(http://www.hockerley.50webs.com/sharp/stapled.jpg)
(http://www.hockerley.50webs.com/sharp/stapled2.jpg)

I closed the staples up with a hammer and trimmed the edges to tidy it up a bit.
(http://www.hockerley.50webs.com/sharp/finished.jpg)

I also squirted a bit of oil in to try and inhibit rust.  As long as the leather is not too thin and the pocket not too wide the chisel doesn't reach the staples at the bottom so they don't touch the cutting edge.

Russell

Title: Re: Keeping chisels sharp
Post by: micktoon on November 07, 2013, 04:49:19 PM

Hi Russel , glad you posted it , a good simple idea , quick but effective................... although it could lead people into trouble when the wifes handbag goes missing  :lol:
 Cheers Mick

Title: Re: Keeping chisels sharp
Post by: BenH on November 07, 2013, 05:55:29 PM

Looks good I use a similar thing but stiched on my big framing and paring chisels, the normal sized ones live in a leather tool roll though :)

Title: Re: Keeping chisels sharp
Post by: RussellT on November 08, 2013, 05:21:14 AM

Thanks Mick and Ben.

I did consider sewing it for about a microsecond - possibly with rivets at the corners :loco:, but it would never have got done.

This is the quick and easy version.

Russell

Title: Re: Keeping chisels sharp
Post by: David Jupp on November 11, 2013, 01:44:01 PM

My daughter has started a course to build a rocking horse - the 'protector' used for her chisel/gouge is simple yet very effective, a wine cork (I think it's one of the plastic ones, but haven't looked closely).

Title: Re: Keeping chisels sharp
Post by: Meldonmech on November 14, 2013, 10:25:46 AM

Hi Russell

                      Amazing, 4 yrs ago I made exactly the same protectors for my best chisels which at the time were kept in my steel portable tool box.  The only difference being I made mine out of my daughters old leather boots. They have functioned
perfectly and are still in use.
                                                     Cheers David

Title: Re: Keeping chisels sharp
Post by: RussellT on November 14, 2013, 03:56:57 PM

Hi David

Brilliant, quick, easy, cheap and long lasting. :thumbup:

Russell