Zeddedhed
Established Member
Here's a few items from the weekends haul.
Up first is this I Sorby chisel.
The iron is very thin and all my Great Uncle could tell me is that he's had it since he could remember and always used it for splitting wide wedges to use as grounds for fitting door linings. I'm wondering if anyone knows of it's intended use, age, and any other pertinent info.
Next is this brutal looking mortice chisel:
As you can see the handle has been beaten down over the socket and ends in a ragged fashion. I quite like this and don't want to rehandle it as I know it was a regular user and chopped many hundreds of lock mortices on doors. Would this originally have had a normal socketed handle? When GU was asked he broke into gales of laughter and spluttering and recalled a 'right evil bas*ard' clerk of the works who used to torment him over his limp and how eventually he had enough and used it to 'do all four of his effin' tyres on a Friday just before knocking off time. They were working out in the sticks and no-one was prepared to give the guy a lift home. He reportedly had to walk 15miles in the rain and then spent most of the weekend getting his car sorted. The chisel became known as the 'equaliser.' I'm sorely tempted to put it in a glass case!!
Lastly is this pair of tools:
I'm guessing they are for draw boring mortices but I know very little of these things!!
Up first is this I Sorby chisel.
The iron is very thin and all my Great Uncle could tell me is that he's had it since he could remember and always used it for splitting wide wedges to use as grounds for fitting door linings. I'm wondering if anyone knows of it's intended use, age, and any other pertinent info.
Next is this brutal looking mortice chisel:
As you can see the handle has been beaten down over the socket and ends in a ragged fashion. I quite like this and don't want to rehandle it as I know it was a regular user and chopped many hundreds of lock mortices on doors. Would this originally have had a normal socketed handle? When GU was asked he broke into gales of laughter and spluttering and recalled a 'right evil bas*ard' clerk of the works who used to torment him over his limp and how eventually he had enough and used it to 'do all four of his effin' tyres on a Friday just before knocking off time. They were working out in the sticks and no-one was prepared to give the guy a lift home. He reportedly had to walk 15miles in the rain and then spent most of the weekend getting his car sorted. The chisel became known as the 'equaliser.' I'm sorely tempted to put it in a glass case!!
Lastly is this pair of tools:
I'm guessing they are for draw boring mortices but I know very little of these things!!
