Hello,
I've looked at older samples of the Marples blue chip chisels, and the
side bevels are ground almost to the face, the side face even along the
entire length.
A recent sample of chisels I've seen have the bevel very high up and
somewhat angled, ground to maybe 2mm of the face at the tip, less than
half the thickness at the middle, and are effectively useless for doing
tight-quarters maneuvers such as cleaning up dovetails.
Has anybody else noticed this? Is this the new style of grinding that
Irwin tools is doing for these chisels?
Thanks!
FYI Rubbermaid merged with Newell back in what waas it 99 making the
company Newell-Rubbermaid. Use to work for one of their companies back
then..
D. Mo
"Mzone719" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Marples was bought out by Irwin which is owned by american tool which has
since
> been bought out by rubbermaid which is now rubbermaid/newell or something
like
> that. You can definitely see the change in quality over the years in
these
> chisels and IMO there are better chisels out there for the money. They
have
> just become another line of ok chisels.
Marples was bought out by Irwin which is owned by american tool which has since
been bought out by rubbermaid which is now rubbermaid/newell or something like
that. You can definitely see the change in quality over the years in these
chisels and IMO there are better chisels out there for the money. They have
just become another line of ok chisels.
Why should Marpels be different. Many of the other Newell Rubbermaid
products have become junk too in my opinion. It's too bad because
Rubbermaid used to be a quality supplier.
RB
Mzone719 wrote:
> Marples was bought out by Irwin which is owned by american tool which has since
> been bought out by rubbermaid which is now rubbermaid/newell or something like
> that. You can definitely see the change in quality over the years in these
> chisels and IMO there are better chisels out there for the money. They have
> just become another line of ok chisels.
"Mzone719" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Marples was bought out by Irwin which is owned by american tool which has
since
> been bought out by rubbermaid which is now rubbermaid/newell or something
like
> that. You can definitely see the change in quality over the years in
these
> chisels and IMO there are better chisels out there for the money. They
have
> just become another line of ok chisels.
Yes, the latest "Record" 09-1/2 block planes I have seen from China are
unusable due to the
blade not fastening down properly. The iron is bad too...
A real shame - they should have put money into producing high quality made
in Sheffield products.
John