TheKnottyOne
Member
I have been in hunter gatherer mode lately, busy removing eronious and error strewn investments from the past and replacing them with good quality second hand jobs that need a little TLC to bring the best out of them. No, I am not talking divorce here, although my time spent perusing various For Sale columns and web sites may yet inadvertently lead me there :shock:
A local advert for an old set of chisels and other things (residing just round the corner from a tool shop I was going to anyway) had me thinking there must be such a thing as fate. Of course fate is not always a good thing, and another description of fate is coincidence, and the only odd thing about coincidences is that they don't happen more often.
I digress.
I must be honest, I have never heard of these chisels, although I believe they are quite a well known brand, but I was quite surprised, coming out of this tiny shed, to find these sparkly little marsupials
Odd though it seems, these have never even had an edge put on them. Why the 1 inch tool went AWOL and got replaced by a Brades of Birmingham imposter is anyone's guess, but a handling comparison quickly suggests that, to me at any rate, it is out classed by its stable mates in terms of balance and feel.
What I would like to know, as I am completely ignorant of such matters, was my (rather too quickly accepted for my liking) offer of £20 either too generous, too mean, or round about right?
Secondly, I bought these to use, am I going to upset any collectors who like boxes more than the things held within them, in which case should I sell them on and put the profits or losses towards a new set?
Thirdly, and I hate to use the word.... rust...... but I have to, there is a few surface rust spots here and there. I am no stranger to this odious material and its treatment having restored motorcycles and clocks in years gone by, but (certainly in the case of clocks) the aim here was to conserve as much original material as possible, whereas I would quite like my chisels to be nice and shiny. To this end, what would be the best way to go about removing the blemishes in this very hard steel?
As fate would have it, the tool shop was closed, but I didn't leave the garden shed before the owner had tried to sell me just about everything in it. I turned down bargain after bargain... I said no about 5 times to these wooden planes (see my next thread - plane insanity)
Any information on these chisels and their treatment gratefully received
kind regards
Simon
A local advert for an old set of chisels and other things (residing just round the corner from a tool shop I was going to anyway) had me thinking there must be such a thing as fate. Of course fate is not always a good thing, and another description of fate is coincidence, and the only odd thing about coincidences is that they don't happen more often.
I digress.
I must be honest, I have never heard of these chisels, although I believe they are quite a well known brand, but I was quite surprised, coming out of this tiny shed, to find these sparkly little marsupials
Odd though it seems, these have never even had an edge put on them. Why the 1 inch tool went AWOL and got replaced by a Brades of Birmingham imposter is anyone's guess, but a handling comparison quickly suggests that, to me at any rate, it is out classed by its stable mates in terms of balance and feel.
What I would like to know, as I am completely ignorant of such matters, was my (rather too quickly accepted for my liking) offer of £20 either too generous, too mean, or round about right?
Secondly, I bought these to use, am I going to upset any collectors who like boxes more than the things held within them, in which case should I sell them on and put the profits or losses towards a new set?
Thirdly, and I hate to use the word.... rust...... but I have to, there is a few surface rust spots here and there. I am no stranger to this odious material and its treatment having restored motorcycles and clocks in years gone by, but (certainly in the case of clocks) the aim here was to conserve as much original material as possible, whereas I would quite like my chisels to be nice and shiny. To this end, what would be the best way to go about removing the blemishes in this very hard steel?
As fate would have it, the tool shop was closed, but I didn't leave the garden shed before the owner had tried to sell me just about everything in it. I turned down bargain after bargain... I said no about 5 times to these wooden planes (see my next thread - plane insanity)
Any information on these chisels and their treatment gratefully received
kind regards
Simon
