They look very stout and I am sure they chop a mean mortise! My compliments to your blog . . . I had a wonderful afternoon browsing about and dreaming of fine hand tools. Well done!

First of all, thanks for stopping by. I must admit to being a fan of your podcast so I am honored to have you as a visitor. You can expect more posts along this same line. My hand tools are starting to take over the shop. These mortise chisels are english and I found them on ebay. They acutally still have the craftman’s initials burned into the handle. I feel honored to be using them.

Well this posting really interests me as I am on a similar path of unplugging, or at least not plugging in as much. My collection of hand tools is growing along with a growing interest in how to use them.

By the way, great photo! That is a nice looking set of mortise chisels.

I’ll be looking for the guy with……should I say it…..ahh what the heck ….
“The Green Tamborine”

I haven’t used the wooden carvers mallets, only the poly face one. For what it’s worth, I found I had a lot of control with it. I just started messing with carving “T-Chisel” style and doing fans and the like for casework. I like that I can tap away and not worry about the angle of the striking plane. I also used it for carvning out the seat of a Windsor chair and it worked great. The standard mallet in the pic above I use for mortising. I have a couple of big blocks floatin’ around the shop. Maybe I’ll make one of the wooden ones and see what kind of difference I see. If nothing else, it could be a fun project!

Thanks………Neil