I can sharpen the LN and Blue Spruce chisels myself without worrying but on the chisel sets that are four thousand a set how do you even touch them without thinking you are destroying a hundred dollars a sharpening?
Easy, make something that is worth more than $100 per sharpening.
Almost all of my chisels are bought used, mostly Buck Brothers and Witherby. They will pare wood just as good as a $4,000 dollar set. Some may be worth more than what was paid for them. They may not be as good as chisels made of modern steel when it comes to holding an edge, but it is much less work to get them to pay for themselves through the work they can do.
jtk
Last edited by Jim Koepke; 12-22-2016 at 4:01 PM.
Reason: ,mostly Buck Brothers and Witherby
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