{"id":59,"date":"2004-07-05T09:46:41","date_gmt":"2004-07-05T16:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/?p=59"},"modified":"2010-05-28T02:12:09","modified_gmt":"2010-05-28T09:12:09","slug":"chisel-shopping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/2004\/07\/chisel-shopping\/","title":{"rendered":"Chisel shopping"},"content":{"rendered":"

Time to buy myself some non-horrible chisels. I was over at Scott’s<\/a> house using his crosscut sled (something I haven’t had time to build yet). He had a set of Irwin\/Marples Blue Chip chisels<\/a> straight from Home Depot. These are your classic “eh” tool. They’re not total crap, but they’re not the chisels you’re going to take to your grave<\/a> by any means. The handles are plastic, the metal and quality control are so-so, and they’re generally adequate.
\nI used the 3\/4″ to clean up a cut that was a bit ragged. As soon as the blade hit the wood fibers I was brutally reminded that *my* chisels are absolute, unmitigated, crap<\/a>. Not only that, but my wife recently used them to chip some cement out of a crack in the tiles. Frankly, at this point I’d be better off with a butter knife. They’re new and the blades aren’t chipped (and proposing this alternative to my wife will prevent any complaints when I actually do buy a set of chisels).
\nSo I did some homework, and I’m sharing the results with you. This<\/a> is a pretty good wrap up of some nice chisels and comparisons; mostly useful as a checklist of things to consider when you decide what’s right for you. This<\/a> is a good summary of chiselspeak.
\nNow comes the decision: how much to spend, and what chisels to buy with it? I decided to set myself an arbitrary budget of around $60. Here’s what I considered.
\n1) Get a set of 4 Blue Chip chisels<\/a> and blow the extra $35 on a good bottle of wine.
\n2) Get a set of 4 Crown bench chisels<\/a>. Mm, pretty rosewood handles.
\n3) Get two<\/a> badass<\/a> chisels that will last forever, and deal with only having 1\/4 and 3\/4 sizes
\n4) Ditto, but they’re turning<\/a> japanese<\/a> (These are Fine Woodworking’s #1 rated chisels). Note that these are a buck or two cheaper here<\/a>.
\nHm, will have to chew on this for a bit… I’ll repost when I have chisels in hand & let you know how things turned out.<\/p>\n


\n(Not that my wife complains when I buy woodworking tools–seriously. She’s awesome.)
\n(Bonus points if you know the artist who did “Turning Japanese” without referring to Google…)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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