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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In retrospect, I could have avoided that last bit of finessing by leaving the handle initially round and shaping it to the ferrules after they were dry-fitted.

Either way, same result.

You also wouldn’t have to do what I’m trying with the six sides; rather just make the handle a tapered round and file the arrises off the fittings, making those round, too.

I could still do that with the fittings, and soften the handle’s arrises, if it feels uncomfortable with them. We’ll see.