Est. 1998 — 27 years of woodworking knowledge
old (or not?) chisel handle shape
paul womack
>Following some posts last year concerning the merits of "ancient" chisel handles, I fell across this during some reading in the vacation. The book is dated 1903, and yet it shows this chisel handle, without any reference to it being an "older" style. It is simply referred to as a "common gouge" (in distinction to a scribing or paring gouge) in its handle.
BugBear
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paul womack
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Jorge Castaneda
>Hi Paul,
I have a bunch of Buck Bros. carving gouges with that handle shape, I think of them as old because the tang just goes into the wood up to a stopper and there is no ferrule, resulting in a couple of broken handles.
All of them are stamped with "cast steel", so that dates them to before the electric furnace.
$0.02
Jorge