Sow's Ear: Silk Purse?


Here's an optimistic mini-project for you: one of my dad's old chisels that somehow got left to rust and rot, overlooked in the shed-now-formally-known-as-the-woodshed. I found this venerable old thing amongst the piles of stuff - the most unsalvageable of which has been since chucked - that were infesting that small space and frankly getting right in the way of it being in any way, shape or form, functional, let alone useful.

As you can see, it's not in a pretty shape, but as this is one of the old Winson Street tools that I remember from childhood, I think it only fair, right and proper that I should give it some care and attention in attempting to salvage it and return it to usable form. This could very well be easier said than done, as rust is a pernicious thing. However, I suspect that the underlying steel is of a pretty decent quality, and that it might just - through judicious cleaning, grinding and honing, be rescuable: keep you posted...

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  1. At least you've got summat of yer dad's; a nameless hamfisted son of mine trashed my dad's chisels!
    Wire brush, oil-stone & Lanoguard mate!
    ATB
    Joe

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    1. Definitely a bit of grinding needed at the sharp end, though - a tad ragged...

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  2. I've still got quite a few of my old Dad's tools - in pretty good nick. They still get used from time-to-time! I remember them in our cellar workshop at Peel Street. I would be about 5 or 6 years old. Good quality tools last forever.

    Trust All Well,

    Phil.

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  3. Hi Phil - as you know, the most significant bit of my Dad's workshop kit that I have is his old Myford lathe, but the set of chisels he had - a couple of which are still in good nick, are somehow redolent of the old man himself, much like his spokeshave, which I passed on to Leo a couple of years ago... all well here: I take it the same with you and yours,
    K

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