Found some old wood chisels

[Ohio Andy]

@Ohio Andy : Here's the jig I'm using: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BZGHZ79R?tag=atomicindus08-20

I just turned it upside-down in a drill press vise so I can use the narrow WE paddles.

Here's all the goodies, getting ready to flatten the back of the 3/4" Crafty:



Since these chisels haven never been used or sharpened, the hardest part is flattening the back--they sure don't come flat fro the factory. The bevel isn't particularly straight, either, but that takes less metal removal than initial flattening.

Oh, nice!

and yes, flattening the back is always annoying for me. It is why I was excited to try the Tormek wheel side to do this. I failed to hold it flat and I ended up with a gauge on the back. I had a similar problem trying this with a sand paper based version that has a spinning wheel. The name escapes me. I spent a lot of money on that system and it worked, but I gave it away after I received my Tormek.

 

[Beerhippie]

Whew!

Four Crafty chisels--done. It sure didn't help that the chisels were chromed AFTER the coarse sharpening, so I had to first remove the chrome--much harder than steel. Thank geology (and lab rats) for diamonds! The chrome of the 1/4" peeled off the last inch of the chisel as I was flattening the back, which sped that one up some.

The sharpening jig I use doesn't quite grip a 1/4" chisel. I tried using some beer can for a shim, but that made it impossible to get the chisel flat in the clamp. I ended up just doing that one by hand, meaning I have a convex bevel. But then I got thinking, how often do I use a 1/4" chisel? The answer was NEVER. Maybe now that I have a nice sharp one, I might.

Probably 90% of what I use a chisel for is cutting the inlets for door hardware--and I just finished most of the door work I'll be doing for quite a while. I hope....

 

[Beerhippie]

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Don't know anything about the CBN. I vaguely remember that maybe a diamond version did, but, I don't own one so never paid much attention to it.

CBN (properly c-BN) is Cubic Boron Nitride. It isn't quite as hard as diamonds, but more heat resistant and a better conductor of heat, meaning that when bonded to an aluminum wheel, it keeps your work cooler. Supposedly, it can be used dry in conditions where a diamond wheel would "burn" the work.

Check it out on Ytube. There must be a thousand videos on it.

I think it's also the abrasive used in 3-M Cubitron II products, which I use the hell out of.

 

[d42jeep]

Found these Buck Bros. Chisels at a Tahoe yard sale yesterday morning. They badly needed sharpening.
I‘m getting to have quite a few of these.
Back into the wood chisel drawer.
-Don

I finally found a Buck Bros wood chisel at a moving sale on Saturday that didn’t need sharpening.
-Don

 

[d42jeep]

Here are a pair of chisels in a brand I’m not familiar with. They are from Petko Industries in CA and they were made in Sheffield, England. The smaller one has a little nick out of the blade and will need sharpening. Has anyone run across this brand? I found mention of a concrete finishing tool on ToolTalk and some Kwikset style keys on eBay
-Don

 

[RTM]

Here are a pair of chisels in a brand I’m not familiar with. They are from Petko Industries in CA and they were made in Sheffield, England. The smaller one has a little nick out of the blade and will need sharpening. Has anyone run across this brand? I found mention of a concrete finishing tool on ToolTalk and some Kwikset style keys on eBay
-Don

From this distance, those look like Scandinavian chisel handles. Berg is my favorite, and only one I can spell freehand. Screwing around on the phone, will look at big pics later, see if I can help

 

[RTM]

They are from Petko Industries in CA

Cripe, I thought you meant Canada. The made in Sheffield made sense. Now seeing Culver City, I gotta rethink this. Looking up Petko in google books, couple of different names.

1948 Sales Company
1949- 53 Industries
1955 Hardware

Maybe these guys were assemblers, where the chisel blade came from Sheffield, and the wood from Scandinavia. Or they saw Berg chisels, and asked for the handles to be made to look like this:



Image borrowed from Jim Bode, where you can see lots of them

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[d42jeep]

I found this on ToolTalk. It is from Internet Archive but I couldn’t find it. This seems to refer to the concrete finishing tools Petko supplied. No reference to wood chisels. I don’t know if it’s even the same company.
-Don

 

[RTM]

This seems to refer to the concrete finishing tools Petko supplied. No reference to wood chisels. I don’t know if it’s even the same company.
-Don

I did find an ad for concrete tools also, and that address matches the other things I found, so yes, probably same company.

 

[d42jeep]

I found this Stanley made in England chisel at a recent estate sale. The cutting edge had a few nicks.
Cleaned it up.
Sharped it on the vertical sander.
Ready to go into the carpenter’s box with its’s American cousin.
-Don