Anyone own a Sorby registered Chisel?

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paul womack

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Re: Anyone own a Sorby registered Chisel?

William Duffield on the Cohansey

>Why is it necessary to register a chisel?

I can understand the community requiring registering your bench dog, just in case he goes after the neighbor's shaving horse or scatters the flock of ducks or pod of whales used by the boat builder down the lane, or removes the tail during hot pursuit of someone's rattail file. I can even understand the requirement to register a gun or other WMD.

If you register your chisels, you should be aware that Ashcroft's people may feel the need come knocking at your door to confiscate them some fine night. Better to make your own unregistered chisels from innocuous bed frames or worn out files.

Re: Anyone own a Sorby registered Chisel?

Bob Nelson

>I know that William's question was largely tongue in cheek, but in case he got anybody else to wondering for real, it's not the chisel that's registered - it's the design. A patent-like thing. The U.S. patent system has a class of design patents besides the better known type. In the U.K., such designs are called registered. Bob

Re: Anyone own a Sorby registered Chisel?

Russell Adkins

>This is the origin of the term "registered" that I received from P Gill at Sorby:

The story goes that the "registered" design of chisel was peculiar to barge-builders on the River Thames. However, these were expensive chisels not readily available. Hence they were available from a central "tool bank" and the user had to be a "registered" barge-builder to use them.

That's the story. Whether it is true or not, I really don't know. It does at least take some of the mystique out of the origin of the name.

So, even the people at Sorby do not know for sure!