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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Another caveat is, without first cutting threads with a die, you don’t have much control of the fittings path. It ended up askew at shoulder by a mil, made looking worse because the arrises on the fitting are chamfered on the corners, which you can see here.

That won’t look so bad later when handle is tapered to ferrule and epoxy fills in. But it’s not perfection :)