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Hi Christopher,
I have a set of the wood handled bevel edged Marples chisels as well, they’re lovely chisels. It’s one of things those things where it depends on the task at hand I think. I shoot for 30 deg for the majority of work, but occasionally when I’m doing a lot of morticing in oak, I increase that slightly to help prevent edge fracture, as I’ve found that does happen at times with these chisels in oak. I may also be tempted when doing very fine work to go down to 25ish degrees for less resistance. Have a look here to see what Paul’s view:
http://paulsellers.com/2013/04/myth-and-mystery-surrounding-plane-and-chisel-bevels/
The 30 deg is only at the very edge for me as I use Paul’s cambered sharpening method as discussed on this blog post:
http://paulsellers.com/2012/01/sharpening-chisels-forget-weaker-micro-bevels/
Hope that helps,
Phil