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Not a timber framing chisel.  It's called a cape chisel, used for cold chiseling groves, keyways, or down inside holes in iron or soft steel.  That one is an especially long version, must have been a deep hole.  Lots of examples in Richardson's Practical Blacksmithing and older editions of Machinery's Handbook.

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Do you lament the fact that the hardy hole on your favorite anvil is: (A) out of square (B) tapers from top to bottom (C) otherwise wonky and frustrating (D) all of the above, but you don't feel like spending an afternoon raising blisters with a set of files making it right? Then you need one of these chisels. Maybe not so long, but in that pattern.

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John, I did just as you said using files and other tools trying to clean the corners in the hardy hole of my latest anvil so all my old 1 inch tools would fit and had this tool sitting in a tool box under the bench!

 

 

 

 

 

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Probably a plugging chisel.  Used by masons to chisel mortar from bricks so that broken bricks can be replaced in the field areas of brick walls.  Most commercial versions are too short, this one is Waay long!  

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