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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The flanged end of the smaller fitting mates with the bolster almost perfectly. I’d be happier if it was another 2mil wider, but this is pretty good.

That bolster though. A railroad spike. I had to file out the flange a tiny bit just to get it over the base of the bolster.

That’s going to be a slimline fit!