In January I got a batch of chisels after deciding that there should be a wide, large chisel in the jobsite array.

Now there is one (two, actually) & working well.

Four of the six are partially restored/sharpened. One was ground to a very low angle & I honed it steeper but still maybe 20˚.

After working it longer than normal, it still didn't polish up, or take a shaving sharp edge. Then, after shaving a couple of edges off of a piece of fir, the edge was trashed.

It shows considerable use, but I'm not sure how it made it this far in life. It's a timber chisel, but with the low angle, I only did shallow paring cuts- no hammer blows.

Sometimes, the edge of a new chisel will not perform well until after a few sharpenings but that's not the case here.


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This one took some work but is looking very promising:

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Just a report from the field- carry on...