What is the last useful thing you did with a chisel?

[Jacob]

What is the last useful thing you did with a chisel i.e. work, not just sharpening or fiddling?
There's a lot of them around - I just wondered what people actually do with them. If you aren't carving, dovetailing or morticing, chisels seem only to have a tiny role.
Personally I last used one (2" axminster cheapo) for chopping/paring out the throat of a wooden plane, having just added a new sole, but this doesn't really count as work as it was just hobby tool fiddling ('tool research' as I call it).
In terms of work I used the same chisel to chop out a 9 x 1 1/"2 joist end which I couldn't get at any other way (steelwork in the way).
So what did you do last?

Reason for asking - I wondered about what to set up as a realistic chiselly job for a forthcoming sharpening demo.

 

[dp341]

The last thing I did with a chisel was cut the hole in the top of a turned money box. Prior to that I was cutting the waste out of a housing joint.

 

[DTR]

Notched some sleepers that eventually became part of the back door step. Having said that, SWMBO may have used one of my chisels since then to chop some housings.

 

[DTR]

Oh, and I used one to sharpen a pencil at the weekend.

 

[Racers]

Chopping stretcher mortices in the wife's dressing table stool that I am making for her.

Pete

 

[Anima]

Opened a tin of paint.

 

[RogerBoyle]

Cleaned out the stringers of a staircase and reshaped the nosings on Friday morning
Then had to shave 5mm from the blockwork with it

Roger

 

[WellsWood]

Used a 3/4" (lie nielsen A2) for latter part of last week, to tidy up 80 tenons - between cheeks and shoulders where Ts/bandsaw cuts had been stopped slightly short of corners. It's far and away my most "go-to" chisel.

 

[ColeyS1]

Paring off pellets

 

[carlb40]

Today with my irwin 1 1/4'' it was used to remove plaster/ impact board/ skirting/ architraves :-"

 

[doctor Bob]

Clean the glue roller on my edgebander

 

[AndyT]

I've not made much for a while, but I could not have done these without chisels:

or these

or these

which needed these

 

[mrpercysnodgrass]

Opened a tin of paint.

Tut Tut Tut!

 

[No skills]

Today I split off some half laped joints (@ home), last week (@ work) was chopping holes through 20l paint tin lids/prying plywood sheets/scraping vinyl logos off steel panels.

 

[tim burr]

Paring chisel for clearing off some old glue and some grotty bits of veneer on some doors I'm repairing and an 1 1/4 jap chisel for trimmimg the veneer round a few drawer fronts.

Been buisily chiselly today

 

[stoatyboy]

Under cut some tenon shoulders

cleaned off the end of a turned thing after parting off

sharpened a pencil

picked one up and walked around with it wishing my garage wasn't so cold

 

[MIGNAL]

Opened a tin of paint.

Tut Tut Tut!

Yep. What he failed to tell you is that it was a Blue Spruce!

 

[Dangermouse]

Pared down to rough shape a windsor chair back frame repair. Used vintage 1/2 inch by 14 inch long Stormont paring chisel with boxwood handle

 

[Peter Sefton]

Demonstrating fitting drawer slips this afternoon.

 

[Lons]

Sharpened it! :wink:
Oh yeah, then I fitted hinges into 3 pine doors.