Newer stanley chisels

[jimi43]

I'd wait until after Easter and go to the biggest bootfair in the country...Basildon...near you isn't it?

A quid a pop at the most..even if you have to rehandle or sharpen them you are on to a winner every time you pick up a WARD or an I.SORBY or old "CAST STEEL" anything....

And...as an added bonus you can find yourself wandering hopelessly through the hundreds of "marks" to find out who made them and when.

Just be prepared to get up early for the really good ones!

Jim

 

[Jacob]

......t anybody wanting advice on what to buy really needs to be very precise on what work the tool needs to do. ......

Just buy something which won't break the bank, and get stuck in. You'll soon pick up a better idea of what you need, or should have bought. It's not like a "problem" and a "solution" - it's a learning process.

 

[bugbear]

You'll soon pick up a better idea of what you need, or should have bought.

Obviously better (and cheaper) to buy the right thing in the first place.

Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other.
- Benjamin Franklin

BugBear

 

[No skills]

Yes good old Basvegas is near me, cant see me dragging the other half round there that early tho

Still the price I pay for perfection

:roll:

 

[Jacob]

You'll soon pick up a better idea of what you need, or should have bought.

Obviously better (and cheaper) to buy the right thing in the first place.

Except (as a beginner) you don't know which it is.
If you followed some of the advice on here it could be extremely expensive. So you might as well play safe and get these, which are perfectly OK for a beginner and exactly the sort of tool to get your hand in with.

 

[bugbear]

So you might as well play safe and get these, which are perfectly OK for a beginner and exactly the sort of tool to get your hand in with.

Indeed. A particular recommendation is more useful that advice to go out and buy ... anything you find. Of course, there's a \healthy variety of opinions, such better supported by evidence or argument than others.

BugBear

 

[Newbie_Neil]

Hi Andy,

I have it down as issue 218.

Thanks,
Neil