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What Makes a Good Chisel

What Makes a Good Chisel

It ain't the steel, Vern.

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Christopher Schwarz
Aug 08, 2024
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We’re finishing up a review of chisels where we have a robot make 1,000 chisel chops in purpleheart to test for edge life. We’re just waiting on the electron scanning microscope images to arrive so we can publish the results in Engineering Woodworking Journal.

The above is, of course, a lie. If we had a robot it would make us coffee and provide soothing …

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