Protecting Small Chisels

[Jerry Murray]

I have started to accumulate some very smll chisels and carving tools. I just got a roll for my larger chisels...so how can I protect the tips of my small chisels?

I don't know if storing them in the roll will work out for the best...what do you use to store sharp small tools?

[Bruce Page]

Jerry, I have the same question. I just received several very nice BS chisels and I need to figure out hot to safely store them. I don’t care for the tool roll option, and I don’t have wall space for a tool sill.

I’d like to fit them into an empty drawer in my bench; does anyone have pics of how the did it?

[David Gendron]

What about making a smal box, I saw one in one of the wooworking magazin, I will look for it and get back to you...

[David Gendron]

So the article is in the autumn of 2004 page 28 of Wooworking magazine! Have a look, I think it wouldbe a nice little project!
david

[Jerry Murray]

What about making a smal box, I saw one in one of the wooworking magazin, I will look for it and get back to you...

That might be the best option. I have some cigar boxes that my do in the interim. I was also thinking about maybe heading to the office supply store and buying some erasers. I can cut them up and just jab them onto the ends of the chisels.

[glenn bradley]

I don't know how many you have but maybe something like this with some veneer glued to the mag-bar for looks/protection.

[David Gendron]

Also what work great for small sharp tool tips is sintetic coark!

[Jeff Wittrock]

I haven't done it myself, but wondering if various diameters of clear tubing you can pick up at a hardware store would work. I don't know the material (I just call it fish pump tubing ). It is fairly flexible, so you can squeeze it to make a chisels rectangular cross section fit into an otherwise round tube, and it when it tries to return round, it holds it onto the chisel.

Jeff

[Garet Nenninger]

I have tried both synthetic wine corks (for my homemade 1/16 to 3/16-inch chisels) and thick vinyl tubing (for a store-bought 1/2" chisel). Both seem to work just fine, though for small chisels, the cork gives you something bigger to hold on to as you cover the blade.

[Jerry Murray]

Cork?

I'll have to have the wife get busy on some wine

[Hank Knight]

Lie-Nielsen used to ship their chisles with a heavy flexible black plastic sleeve on the blades to protect the edges. The sleeve was about 3" long and came in several sizes for 1/4" to 3/4" blades. They quit using them and started dipping their chisels in some kind of temporary waxy stuff, but they had a bunch of the black sleeves left over. They were selling them for not much (maybe 50 cents each - I don't remember) at the LN store in Warren ME and I bought several. I asked for more and they sent me a couple dozen with my next order. I don't think they even charged me for them. I use them on all my chisels. You might call and see it they have any left. They're great and would be perfect for your small chisels.

Hank

[george wilson]

I guess you've considered that some erasers might have some fine abrasive in them?

[Jerry Murray]

Hank..I have some of the "larger" black plastic tips. However, the chisels I'm talking about have from a 1.5mm to 3/16" tip.

I'm sure that the ersaser will have some abrasive qualities, and I can always 'touch them up' I just don't want them to get banged around or anything like that.

[george wilson]

You could use art gum,or as David suggested,corks. Art gum might fall apart soon.

[Pam Niedermayer]

Folded over and stapled cardboard does it with at expense. i like corks for the bigger chisels. But I store most of my chisels in small drawers lined with various stuff, mostly that router pad material so they don't roll around.

Pam