Mortise chisel advice needed

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Jack from Maine

>I agree on the article idea. I would like to have access to that when I find time to practice it.With personal memory lapses and computer crashes I can't keep track of anything lately.I tried printing stuff I want to keep but I just get buried in paper. Thanks for sharing Adam.---Jack

Sorry - family name for garage sales

Bill Houghton, Sebastopol, CA

>I forget sometimes that it's a VERY local usage, limited to about four people.

AAARRRGGGHHHH!!!!!!

Bill Houghton, Sebastopol, CA

>I can't keep up! There's SO much good info on this forum, I find myself printing something out every night, and I'm running out of room to store all the gems I find.

Not to mention time to try out the techniques I read about...I have GOT to win the lottery soon.

Huh?

Mark Harrison -- in Sydney, Australia

>Adam,

Maybe I'm being even more than usually dense than today (it has been one of those days on every other count!) but I don't quite get what you are doing in that photo.

Are you pushing the mortise chisel into the wood using just upper body strength? Is this a technique that you have devised or some method that has escaped my attention up until now? I would not be surprised about the latter.

Why was today one of those days? I've taken this week off to work on house renovations. It's a long story and I wont bore everyone here. Suffice to say that the days have been long and very dirty.

What took the biscuit was emptying the shop vacuum. I up ended the barrel into the plastic bag, removed barrel, picked up plastic bag and watched as the bottom of the bag gave way (the weld was weak) and I was literally covered with the contents of the vac. I'm sure it was funny to watch but to be sure, I was not one of the ones laughing (at the time :-) In trade for the slapstick levity, I think a few neighbours have now discovered a few new uses of some ancient anglo-saxon words that are not commonly used in polite society :-) I blame the Navy for my comprehensive knowledge of these decorative syntax forms.

Oh well, tomorrow's another day...

CW Chairmakers?

Don Thompson, Cutler Ridge, South of Miami FL

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Thanks for all the replies

Stephen in Ottawa

>A lot of valuable information in this thread. Thanks again.

- Stephen

Colonial Williamsburg Chairmakers

Russell Seaton

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Thanks! Learned somethin new

Scott Burr in Ben Lomond CA

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Hey it's a...

Scott Burr in Ben Lomond CA

>great name Bill. Seeing how most garage sales around here have mostly garbage;)

Chopping not joiners technique?

Don Thompson, Cutler Ridge, South of Miami FL

>Adam,

Everything that you have stated is seemingly logical, but I have difficulty reconciling the thesis that traditional joiners did not hammer their mortise chisels with the fact that Klausz, traditionally apprenticed in Hungary, Kingshott, traditionally apprenticed in England, and Frid, traditionally apprenticed in (Denmark?) all were taught to hammer them.

Any further thoughts on the subject?

Re: Mortise chisel advice needed *LINK*

George D. Huron

>Try the one-hole method. Drill one hole and chop the rest. See Jeff Goreman's site for details.


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