I didn't want to get this lost in the Maynard Mortise Technique string.
I set up a block of wood on the bench and laid out two identical 1/4" wide mortises about 2" long. This was a Maynard exercise.
In this forum there has been some discussion about chopping mortises with bevel edged bench chisels. As you know Paul Sellers teaches that technique.
I chopped one mortise with a R Iles 1/4" pig sticker.
The other mortise was chopped with an old 1/4" Stanley Defiance.
The mortises were about 1 1/4" deep. Both were done with the Maynard technique.
On the bench chisel mortise I struck the chisel 3 times and levered, repeating until the mortise was chopped.
There was no appreciable difference in the effort required to make the mortises.
I would like for a two or three of you do the same exercise and then share your observations.
Oh by the way, I am keeping my pig stickers for sure.