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.

The trickiest bit of this operation is getting the ferrule seats right. It’s not the much easier task of making them the same inner diameter of a brass tube and sliding the tube on to depth.

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