Identification help please
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Hello learned friends, I recently purchased a beautiful box of woodworking tools and this was amongst the contents. Could someone please indicate what it is and what it is used for. Cheers.
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Hi,
It looks very much like a swan-neck chisel. Used for levering waste from deep mortices. The tool is never struck but used only by hand.
Regards,
Chris
Yep, looks like a swan neck mortise chisel; there’s one here:
http://www.oldschooltools.co.uk/product/c-nurse-swan-neck-mortise-chisel/
I’ve never heard the term “swam neck” chisel before…I’ve always heard those types of chisels referred to as lock mortise chisels. My understanding is that they’re not typically used in the kind of joinery mortises such as Paul has been teaching thus far, they’re used for scraping the bottom of lock mortises, where smoothness on the bottom was once thought to be an issue, or at least some toolmaker’s marketing department tried to convince everyone it was an issue…
Allegedly they are not easily sharpened.