Est. 1998 — 27 years of woodworking knowledge
Making a Dovetail chisel
Dan Clermont
>Has anybody had success taking a good old chisel and grinding it away to make either a narrower chisel or a dovetail chisel so you can get in the corners of your tight, tight dovetails?
I am sure I saw pics of a chisel somebody modified while taking a dovetail course but to heck if I can find or remember where it was.
TIA,
Dan Clermont
Re: Making a Dovetail chisel
Jim in Burlington Ontario
>Search "Cosman Dovetail" select all in the hand tool archive
What I did
Jim Reed @ Tallahassee
>I bought two 3/8" chisels and reground them as 45 degree skews--one right and one left. They sure help cleaning out blind dovetails.
Here ya go Don... *LINK*
Scott Burr in Ben Lomond CA
>Personally I'd go with skew chisels myself.
Crossman DT chisel
Re: Making a Dovetail chisel
Richard A.Gillespie, Jr.
>I see that Scott has beat me to the punch but I think I remember FWW doing a tutorial on using a 5/8" chisel as a dedicated dovetail chisel in the manor shown. The one comment that has stuck in my mind is that as you sharpen you will experience diminishing widths.