Jim Coke Posted March 1, 2015 Posted March 1, 2015 Greetings Stan, My guess would be removing shaft keys or cleaning the ways. Forge on and make beautiful thingsJim Quote
Dogsoldat Posted March 1, 2015 Posted March 1, 2015 Could be a mortising chisel for timber framed buildings though it does look to have been hit hard and pretty blunt on the one end Quote
Judson Yaggy Posted March 1, 2015 Posted March 1, 2015 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. Quote
stan Posted March 1, 2015 Author Posted March 1, 2015 Thanks guys sound right Cutting edge is hardened as much as a metal chisel. Quote
John McPherson Posted March 1, 2015 Posted March 1, 2015 (edited) 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. Edited March 1, 2015 by John McPherson Quote
stan Posted March 1, 2015 Author Posted March 1, 2015 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! Quote
bigfootnampa Posted March 16, 2015 Posted March 16, 2015 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! Quote
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