Mastodawn

I started restoring this ‘ciseaux bedane’ a while back and got sidetracked. Still some hand grinding to do on bottom, but it was almost there. These chisels are meant to be whacked hard, and I’ll need to put a handle on it with two ferrules, so I bumped it up as my test for using threaded brass plumbing fittings as ferrules. Strong.

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I only had one large fitting for the butt, but realized the round bolster on this chisel was close to the diameter of a fitting on a butane regulator. Voilà. Test ferrules.

These fittings have six sides. So I’ll make the handle six-sided to match them and taper it on a slight arc. This will have a different feel from a more typical octagon handle.