I now have a 15/16 chisel

[lowell holmes]

I am making a rocking chair for my first Great Grand Daughter to be rocked in.

I make my chairs using power and hand tools. It is about 60% hand work. The chair is a Craftsman design using cherry.
It has the prerequisite 1" square tenon through the arms from the front posts.

I always cut the tenons with with my LN carcass saw. I thought I had it straight and square, but one of the tenons is about 1/32" undersized and I
will not accept filling the slight crack with a shaving. The obvious fix is to make the mortise 15/16" square instead of 1". I can trim the tenon to 15/16".

The problem I had is I did not have a 15/16" bench chisel to chop the mortise with. Well,I went to my collection of auction site chisels and found an
old 1" Stanley 1245 with a splintered handle, a chisel I never use. I trimmed the splintered part of the handle and ground the chisel to 15/16" size with
my belt sander.

I just finished chopping a practice mortise in a scrap and it is going to work.

The real reason for this post is to brag about my Great Grand Daughter.

[Mike Cherry]

Thats awesome Lowell on the Great Grand Daughter front and that "new" chisel haha

[Bill Houghton]

The real reason for this post is to brag about my Great Grand Daughter.

Yeah, yeah. But no pictures? Even if she's not born yet, a picture of the proud parents-to-be will suffice.

[Jim Koepke]

Bragging about children, grandchildren and great grandchildren is always good.

So is building furniture for them and adapting a tool for your own need.

Congrats,

jtk