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Japanwoodworker.com brand chisels
alan womack
>needing to round out my tools for the upcoming Cosman Training the Hand class in Calgary. Not been able to win some 1/8" chisels fairly on the bay, so thinking about the Japanwoodworker.com chisels.
About $18.00 each, if I recall they did very well in the FWW article some years back.
Any one using them?
Alan
Re: Japanwoodworker.com brand chisels
Pam Niedermayer - Austin, TX
>If you take any chisels other than LN to the class, Rob will probably spend piles of time explaining why your chisels are trash.
Pam
Re: Japanwoodworker.com brand chisels
alan womack
>Ah, but it is a hell of a chance to compare em! I know my 720's don't last too long, a couple of paring of dovetails in cherry ply and they are chipping. About 5 and it's time to resharpen.
I'd love to get a set of LN's, but at $250 for five, that is a whole lotta clams!
Alan
Re: Japanwoodworker.com brand chisels
Jim in Burlington Ontario
>They have quite a few more sizes now than just the origional 5 BTW Rob really prefers the rosewood handled version so add on 5 more per chisel. As a small personal note I have 2 LV japanese chisels and they are very good. I'd say they hold a edge for just slightly less than the LN's and rosewood does hold up to a beating.
Re: Japanwoodworker.com brand chisels
Pam Niedermayer - Austin, TX
>OK. Actually very few people need a set of mortising chisels. I think you'll find that you need at most 3 or 4, and I'd start with sizes suitable for 3/4" stock (1/4" or 6mm) and 1" stock (1/3-3/8" or 8-10 mm). Therefore, I'd buy fairly expensive Japanese chisels since you only need 2, probably from Misuge, Hiraide, or Hida.
Pam
Re: Japanwoodworker.com brand chisels
Joel
>cherry Ply?
the glue is abrasive will kill everything.
what you want in a real paring chisel is something that can take a 20-25 degree final supersharp edge. it won't last long but that's not the point of a paring chisel.
THe "grabbiness" of the low angle really makes a difference in accuracy.
IT's interesting how things go full circle I started out using traditional western angles for everything 20+5 for paring 25+5 for bench 30+5 for mortise and then moved everything higher over the years because of my exposure to Japanese chisels. Now I am back to where I started - and the chisels are more specfic in purpose but they work far better for what they are designed for. I have to keep hitting myself on the head and repeating "don't reinvent the wheel".
Re: Japanwoodworker.com brand chisels
William Duffield, on the Cohansey
>Why buy the whole set, if you haven't convinced yourself that you need a whole set? Just buy the one chisel you need. Oh, and I would skip the rosewood handle option, and the gold plated emblems, and the racing stripes, and the undercoating, and the dealer prep, and the... The stock hophornbeam handles are as durable as any other wooden handle you could imagine, only surpassed by the massive metal of a Stanley Everlast.
Re: Japanwoodworker.com brand chisels
Derek Cohen (in Perth, Australia)
>Alan
You don't say what type of 1/8" chisel you want, but I assume you mean dovetail. I am very happy with my Matsumuras in this size, and they have a true inverted "V" shape, unlike my Berg and Witherby 1/8", which are flat-sided and deep like mortise chisels. I find very few chisels in this size range are actually useful for dovetails, shape-wise.
The other chisel you might consider taking along, is the paring chisel that Rob demonstrated in his video. I do find it a useful alternative to skew chisels in cleaning out half-blind dovetails. My copy is below.
Regards from Perth
Derek