Greetings Wreckers,
My Delta mortiser came today. Couldn't refuse the $50 off deal @
Amazon. Since I have yet to use any mortiser, I could use help on
something. I have read that the supplied Delta chisels are crap.
Although they are quite sharp, the blanchard ground sides aren't quite
smooth. From what I gather, one of the problems with chisels is binding
on the upstroke. Does it help to stone/polish the outsides of the
chisels? Should I use the stock Delta pieces for practice and buy a set
of quality chisels? Lastly, I read a lot about scary sharp, is there a
url that explains how to achieve this? Thanks for all the help, Mark L.
"Mark L." <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Greetings Wreckers,
> My Delta mortiser came today. Couldn't refuse the $50 off deal @
> Amazon. Since I have yet to use any mortiser, I could use help on
> something. I have read that the supplied Delta chisels are crap.
> Although they are quite sharp, the blanchard ground sides aren't quite
> smooth. From what I gather, one of the problems with chisels is binding
> on the upstroke. Does it help to stone/polish the outsides of the
> chisels? Should I use the stock Delta pieces for practice and buy a set
> of quality chisels? Lastly, I read a lot about scary sharp, is there a
> url that explains how to achieve this? Thanks for all the help, Mark L.
See http://www.shavings.net/SCARY.HTM#original for the Scary Sharp method.
Regards,
Bob Headrick
>
Thanks Ed and and Bob
Mark L. wrote:
> Greetings Wreckers,
> My Delta mortiser came today. Couldn't refuse the $50 off deal @
> Amazon. Since I have yet to use any mortiser, I could use help on
> something. I have read that the supplied Delta chisels are crap.
> Although they are quite sharp, the blanchard ground sides aren't quite
> smooth. From what I gather, one of the problems with chisels is binding
> on the upstroke. Does it help to stone/polish the outsides of the
> chisels? Should I use the stock Delta pieces for practice and buy a set
> of quality chisels? Lastly, I read a lot about scary sharp, is there a
> url that explains how to achieve this? Thanks for all the help, Mark L.
>
"Mark L." <[email protected]> wrote in message
> My Delta mortiser came today. Couldn't refuse the $50 off deal @
> Amazon. Since I have yet to use any mortiser, I could use help on
> something. I have read that the supplied Delta chisels are crap.
> Although they are quite sharp, the blanchard ground sides aren't quite
> smooth.
I honed my on a series of stones. I also bought the shrpening kit of a two
conical stones for internal sharpening. Lee Valley has them. I have no
problem witht he chisels.
> Should I use the stock Delta pieces for practice and buy a set
> of quality chisels?
I plan to eventually replace mine with good ones. The chisels don't seem
to be as bad as the crappy auger bits. Buy a small file to sharpen them and
they will be much better, but not as good as they could be.
Ed
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