i think we've gone too far here
i think we've gone too far here...
not in a drastic way or anything like that. but, weve beat horse to death here as opposed to beating a dead horse.
i think that the imai chisel used here is obviously a good chisel. the woodcraft brand japanese chisels that i used flat out sucked! they chipped, crumbled and altogether werent good enough for quartersawn white oak. i was very disappointed and that is what i based my statemnent of "after one mallet blow, youre up $#@! creek". :)
no one is picking on Japanese chisels or trying to be a nationalist or something like that.
ciao,
dan
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It's so hard to judge this
We all kind of need to be in the same room to really see what's going on. From the photos, it looks like one corner of the chisel has chipped off. We all have different definitions of sharp and chipping as well. We all expect different things from the steel we use and the edges we create. All I can judge this "experiment" by is the photos and close-ups at a higher resolution would help. The photo on the left is a section of your before photo and the one on the right is the after photo. To me it looks like there was edge damage an a whole corner is gone. The red arrow points to that corner. Reality may be different than what I think I'm seeing in the photos.