...New chisels, to all that gave me advice in this NG which I really appreciate
and thank all for. They must be an older make of Leichtung workshops
cheapies like these:
http://woodworker.com/cgi-bin/FULLPRES.exe?PARTNUM=132-647&LARGEVIEW=ON
Made of chrome vanadium, the ones I got have Gilt Edge blades like these
current Sorby's: http://www.robert-sorby.co.uk/bevel.htm and Stanley 750's
and 720's. These blades are made in Japan and are cut super precisley with
no second cutting bevel, new but someone tried to do a minor amount of
lapping on one of them. Any opinions on the cr-va as chisel steel?
Alex
On Sat, 17 Jul 2004 09:54:57 -0700, "AArDvarK" <[email protected]>
wrote:
>> what the hell are "gilt edge" chisels?
>> gove the chrome vanadium chisels a try or 3 and let us know how you
>> like them....
>
>Chisle blade:
>________
>|\ bevel /|
>| |¯¯¯¯¯¯| | < front (top) of chisel
>| | | |
>| | |< | < when the top cut-lines are like a "V", the design totals-out to
>| | | | being called "gilt edge", designed like a Stanley 750 blade front.
>| | | |< bevel edge
> | ¯¯¯ |
> | |
> | |
> | | < neck
>
>(geyawd that took a long time!)
>
>That's what the hell it is. Instead of straight-cut top line edges that are not
>like a "V". It'll be awhile 'til I'm fully set up to do anything, still havta
>make a bench top of maple, cheaply as possible.
>
>Does that make sense?
>
>Alex
>
what a strange usage of the word gilt.
On Fri, 16 Jul 2004 19:48:38 -0700, "AArDvarK" <[email protected]>
wrote:
>
>...New chisels, to all that gave me advice in this NG which I really appreciate
>and thank all for. They must be an older make of Leichtung workshops
>cheapies like these:
>http://woodworker.com/cgi-bin/FULLPRES.exe?PARTNUM=132-647&LARGEVIEW=ON
>Made of chrome vanadium, the ones I got have Gilt Edge blades like these
>current Sorby's: http://www.robert-sorby.co.uk/bevel.htm and Stanley 750's
>and 720's. These blades are made in Japan and are cut super precisley with
>no second cutting bevel, new but someone tried to do a minor amount of
>lapping on one of them. Any opinions on the cr-va as chisel steel?
>
>Alex
>
what the hell are "gilt edge" chisels?
gove the chrome vanadium chisels a try or 3 and let us know how you
like them....
On Sat, 17 Jul 2004 09:54:57 -0700, "AArDvarK" <[email protected]> wrote:
>> what the hell are "gilt edge" chisels?
>> gove the chrome vanadium chisels a try or 3 and let us know how you
>> like them....
>
<snip of a pretty good job of ASCII art>
>
>That's what the hell it is. Instead of straight-cut top line edges that are not
>like a "V". It'll be awhile 'til I'm fully set up to do anything, still havta
>make a bench top of maple, cheaply as possible.
>
>Does that make sense?
>
>Alex
>
My guess is that "gilt edge" is a Sorby marketing invention - sorta like "Waterproof" for TBIII (Sorry - lets not start that again)
Alex, does that mean that the flat on the beveled edges of the chisel is a fairly constant width the length of the chisel instead of
getting significantly wider farther back from the cutting edge?
Tom Veatch
Wichita, KS USA
> what the hell are "gilt edge" chisels?
> gove the chrome vanadium chisels a try or 3 and let us know how you
> like them....
Chisle blade:
________
|\ bevel /|
| |¯¯¯¯¯¯| | < front (top) of chisel
| | | |
| | |< | < when the top cut-lines are like a "V", the design totals-out to
| | | | being called "gilt edge", designed like a Stanley 750 blade front.
| | | |< bevel edge
| ¯¯¯ |
| |
| |
| | < neck
(geyawd that took a long time!)
That's what the hell it is. Instead of straight-cut top line edges that are not
like a "V". It'll be awhile 'til I'm fully set up to do anything, still havta
make a bench top of maple, cheaply as possible.
Does that make sense?
Alex