let's go browning here and today's exciting episode we are going to discuss chisels so
let's take a look at the man alright so what we have here is the two cherries hornbeam handle
sit you see it's got like a steel ring at the top it's a wooden handle this is the twenty
mill and the twenty-six twelve sixteen ten and finally the six move now the other thing that is
in my sit is this sucker here the qunari know me hearing chisel from Fujikawa in Japan this thing
is a beauty basically it's a paring chisel used not with a mallet it's used with just the force
of your hand to just slice those last uneven layers of a chick out or a you know if you're
doing a check out for ahead and review or doing like a mortise and tenon this is just to shave
those last little bits and get a mint they come in different sizes as well but this is the only
size I have and I really like it the hoop on the back here so the sides are the only power that you
need to flatten when you put it on the stones now obviously you've got to get your chisels
in to where you want it to go using something and I use the two cherries Carver's melon when
you're carving something you change angles all the time so I like it just because I don't have
to look at the chisel when I'm hitting it I can just focus on what I'm choosing but it's awfully
big it's quite a big thing to use especially when you're in and around door locks and you
know little tight areas so for that kind of turn this with two cherries extravaganza that I use
this is a heavy little mallet the mallet does all the work if you know what I mean you just have to
go out there the downside is that it tends to where the timber on your chisel a little bit
quicker okay so that's my basic chisel set a lot of people have asked me about is how I sharpen
these chisels so there's two stones that I have I have the Norton the Norton India oil stone here
this is the one I've had the longest and that's okay it's not bad it just requires a bit of oil
in order to work for smells like a mechanic's garage but I've since moved on to a whetstone and
I basically copy the samurai carpenter here he's got wet stones like this and he's got about half
a dozen of them and he's got he's built a pond and you know it's got a drip pipe and everything
and I mean a lot of you guys would have seen this video so you'll know what I'm talking about but
I've only got the one whetstone so far and it's the 500 do you call it grit as a like sandpaper
with a bit of water and patience this is a great stone to use to sharpen these two cherries chisels
this is how I've been sharpening things for a while just by hand on this wit stuff I'll put
a little link to the summer carpenters video on sharpening because you're gonna get a lot more
from that than you Wilson this so I basically just start with the back and work on getting
it flat sometimes they do a figure of eight so I don't put a gouge in the winter so this
is the hard part getting this bevel consistent I recently added to my sharpening collection
after an event I went through on Thursday last week it was a tool demo from Veritas tools they
make amazing planners and spoke shaves and a guy named Vic Teslin from Canada was here in
New Zealand to do some demos and I think he's touring around Australia as well he showed us
a bunch of things he showed us the low angle Jack plane and why it's so good and how many
different angles the blade can be sit in order to plane and smooth different things he also
showed us the sharpening guide and we all put our names in a hat and basically pulled it out
and my name didn't come up but the guy in front of me my mate his name came up and without even
looking he just grabbed the prize and handed it over shoulder to me because he already had it at
his workshop at home and now I have it the Veritas honing guide mark to standard I had a little play
with it last week I'm not really I'm no expert and using this stuff Vic Teslin did show us but
I'm a notoriously bad classroom students so it's gonna take a few more watching of YouTube videos
and trial and error for me to get it but what I do know is you basically get a chisel like this
or a planer blade and has different settings up here it comes with this little gauge as well this
is how you actually [ __ ] it but like I said I neither be more acquainted with it before I
show you that you put it in like this and then you tighten it now the whole idea of this honing guide
is it keeps the blade in the correct position as you continuously sharpened the beveled angle
and the little wheel at the bottom here helps you roll along and you just continuously go like
that oh my god cuz that I didn't even know this existed until until I saw on Thursday
so one thing one thing that Vic Teslin said last week which is which I thought was a good way of
looking at it is it doesn't really matter how you sharpen it or what you sharpen or wealth
the goal is to get through flat plains to meet at an edge that needs to be flat that needs to
be flat and that edge needs to be sharp that's the goal two flat surfaces meeting at an edge
so I also keep the chisels and this Taurus chisel raw so a company in New
Zealand they make tool belts as well it keeps it pretty men you know nice and snug in there
you roll it up this handle sticks out but it's okay you go like that the clip broke
off but that's okay to think about that Wow unroll it and you're ready for action