chisels

[Farrell]

Ahhhhhh. Excellent! Thank you. I'd feel guilty putting you through all that grinding - I'll just take care of it myself. Thanks again.

Terry Farrell
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  Good News!!

  You can send your "dead" chisel to me, I'll pay shipping.   ;-]

  It won't be dead.  You can extend the life by lapping the backside of the chisel aggressively, thereby moving the hollow back up the blade a bit.  See this article on the Japan Woodworker site, paragraph 2:

  http://japanwoodworker.com/page.asp?content_id=2744

  Of course, if you'd rather not bother with all that fuss, you can still send it to me.  ;-]

  William R. Monroe

    Something that has been troubling me ever since I bought my Japanese chisel: Starting just a few millimeters back from the sharpened edge, the entire backside has a hollow ground out. Why? Is that to make flattening the backside easier? After many sharpenings, the edge of my chisel is getting very close to the beginning of that hollow. Of course, as soon as the edge gets right up to the hollow, the chisel dies. Is this just a feature to sell more chisels?

    Terry Farrell
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