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20 November 2019 at 3:26 pm
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One has to listen to the sound: tap tap … tap thud.
Stop beating when the sound changes.
We don’t want to nail the chisel into the wood.
Paul has an excellent video where he makes two mortises behind a glass.
(look for “Cutting a Mortise – Mortise chisel vs bevel edge chisel”)
Very very instructive.
He is never levering much wood, only what correspond to the (single) thud sound.