Swan-neck chisels

Again, very nice job Frank!

Scott Burr in Ben Lomond CA

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Terminology question

Bill Houghton, Sebastopol, CA, gettin' soggy

>Aren't these "crank-neck" chisels, rather than swan-neck? I think of swan-neck as those mortise-cleaning-out chisels that look like someone started to make a metal question mark and ran out of steam halfway through.

But that's a quibble. They're lovely tools, Frank.

I knew that

Frank D. in Montreal

>I had screwed up somewhere, Bill. Imagine the trouble I'll have scraping the bottoms of mortises with those! Oh well, I guess I'll have to use them as cranked-necks now...

:)

Very Nice

Todd O. Cronkhite Maine Native now in Jax Fl.

>Very nice job on the chisels Frank. Very nice indeed. Gonna go into production? The possibilites are endless. Crank-necked gouges next perhaps? Carving knives? Once you learn how to make tools a whole new world opens I should think.

Thanks for sharing,

Todd O.

Re: Swan-neck chisels

Dave Anderson Chester,NH

>Very nice job Frank. I'm gonna guess that with the nice graceful bends instead of the limitations imposed by forging that they are better balanced and nicer to hold than the commercially made stuff.