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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To make it more challenging, I have a piece of laurel I’ve wanted to use, but it has a crack from drying over the last year. I’ll fill the crack with wood dust epoxy. The ferrules too will get epoxy on the threads for a solid constrictor grip.

I’ve got the stick roughly shaped now. I’ll refine it more after ferrules are dry fitted, and again after epoxy work.