Lee Valley mortising chisels and other mortising musings..long...pics....

[Terry Hatfield]

There are (or were, anyway) two styles of Delta hollow chisels, the cheap ones and the expensive ones. I never had any of the cheap ones, but the one expensive one I had did have a square interior and was made in Austria. I can only presume that circular interior one is the cheap type. I've had chisels from Greenlee, Delta, Jet, a Japanese brand bought from CGG Schmitt, and a no-name Asian one, and I've never seen anything like that round interior.

Kirk

Interesting Kirk. I have no expereice with any chisels except the chisles I have. All of my old ones are round on the inside.

[Terry Welty]

Thanks Terry. I know that having these chisels will enable me to use mine more instead of hunting some other way to make mortises. The table is from Rockler...

http://www.rockler.com/product.cfm?p...tising%20table

It really enhances the use of the mortiser. You could make one of course but for $50, I just bought one.

t

Terry, thanks for the update... I'm looking at improving my mortiser and am going with either your idea or this-

http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/cta...emnumber=32997

any thoughts?

[Terry Hatfield]

Terry, thanks for the update... I'm looking at improving my mortiser and am going with either your idea or this-

http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/cta...emnumber=32997

any thoughts?

I did consider doing something similar when I first got my mortiser. Should work well as the big mortisers have a similar setup. The cross vise would hold the workpiece very securely and dead vertical so that would be a really good deal. That is the only draw back with the Rockler table is that you have to hold the workpiece against the fence which would be a non-issue wiith the vise. Forward and aft adjustment for motises that are wider than the chisels would be easier and more accurate with the cross vise as well.

Personally, I have been really happy with the Rockler setup but it would be nice to have the vise.

t