digitalbot
Established Member
Hello
After having browsed this site for a while I thought I might as well register and take advantage of your vast collective knowledge on all things wood related.
I've only really gotten into woodworking over the last few years or so ( as a hobby/passtime ) and my projects and jobs that I do are still relatively simple. I'm still in the business of trying to aquire a decent set of tools and finding it very hard to purchase things of any quality. So this first post will be a couple of questions if I may.
a: I would like to get a good set of bevel edge chisels; five or six in the set probably. What would you people recommend. I was thinking that the 6 Marples Splitproof ones with the yellow and red transparent handles in the wooden case looked ok. ( I remember using them at school in the 70's but what's the quality of the steel like now? )
b: As mentioned in a couple of other threads, I too have noticed the Triton tools and equipment being sold off by B+Q and have bought some pieces. Triton seem to get good write-ups almost everywhere but what about their router cutters. I'm in the market for a starter set so are they any good? Any of you out there use them?
c: I've spoken to a few semi-aquaintances who do carpentry and site woodwork and they say that you don't sharpen router cutters anymore. You just use them until they go blunt and then bin them. Is this true? I would have hoped not, looking at the price of some of the tct cutters available. I was under the impression that you purchased some shaped slipstones and did it that way. ( although I have learned that man made boards do blunt them very quickly )
Any information would be most welcome on any of those questions and any other advice or links would be greatly appreciated.
David
ps;
got a triton workcenter for 56 quid. Somebody in the store had priced it up wrong. :lol:
After having browsed this site for a while I thought I might as well register and take advantage of your vast collective knowledge on all things wood related.
I've only really gotten into woodworking over the last few years or so ( as a hobby/passtime ) and my projects and jobs that I do are still relatively simple. I'm still in the business of trying to aquire a decent set of tools and finding it very hard to purchase things of any quality. So this first post will be a couple of questions if I may.
a: I would like to get a good set of bevel edge chisels; five or six in the set probably. What would you people recommend. I was thinking that the 6 Marples Splitproof ones with the yellow and red transparent handles in the wooden case looked ok. ( I remember using them at school in the 70's but what's the quality of the steel like now? )
b: As mentioned in a couple of other threads, I too have noticed the Triton tools and equipment being sold off by B+Q and have bought some pieces. Triton seem to get good write-ups almost everywhere but what about their router cutters. I'm in the market for a starter set so are they any good? Any of you out there use them?
c: I've spoken to a few semi-aquaintances who do carpentry and site woodwork and they say that you don't sharpen router cutters anymore. You just use them until they go blunt and then bin them. Is this true? I would have hoped not, looking at the price of some of the tct cutters available. I was under the impression that you purchased some shaped slipstones and did it that way. ( although I have learned that man made boards do blunt them very quickly )
Any information would be most welcome on any of those questions and any other advice or links would be greatly appreciated.
David
ps;
got a triton workcenter for 56 quid. Somebody in the store had priced it up wrong. :lol:
