He finally sold them to me…
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Had my eye on these for a year. There is a nice Jamaican fellow who owns tool shop but deals in second hand quality tools. He wants all his tools to go to good homes and it took me a while a persuade him but at last he sold me all of them for ten pounds a pop.
Great score! Two of those chisels look like they taper in width (not thickness), getting thinner near the cutting edge. I’ve never seen that before. What kind of a chisel would do that?
I think they are old blacksmith made mortice chisels ?
That is the only time I have seen them taper like that?
Frankj
Nice find, Max! Wish there was a good resource like that here where I live. 🙂 I usually have to scour through boxes and boxes of severely rusted out junk before I find a diamond in the rough, though it is possible at times. I recently bought two Chinese chisels from the local flea market for making the Poor Man’s Rebate Plane. I noticed that they, too, had a slight taper down the length. Took me quite a little while to figure why I couldn’t get the chisel to lay flat in the recess. 🙂 I spent about ten minutes sanding with 150 to get it flat on the one side so it would sit level.