Replacement chisel handle

Very nice looking handle. I’d almost be afraid to whack it, even with the hoop on the end ;)

-- "Give me your poor tools, your tired steel, your huddled masses of rust." Yep, I ripped off the Statue of Liberty. That's how I roll!

Great project to share with your son. Turned out terrific.

-- mtnwild (Jack), It's not what you see, it's how you see it.

Very beautiful chisel handle. I’m sure you were having fun tuning up the chisel too.

-- masrol, kuala lumpur, MY.

Yep, you can imagine what the steel looked like after being abandoned for years in the unheated garage.
rusty pitted dinged dirty ugly ugly ugly.

I showed Perry how to lap the pits out (they weren’t too deep) on a surface plate with some emery paper.
I think we burned up three or four hours just on that. Then we had the sharpening lesson and the obligatory shaving of the arm hair test. Then he immediately wanted to “chisel wood”. So we did.

-- Here I post the good, for the rest has become firewood.

What a great way for a father-son play day that he’ll never forget. Good job on bringing that chisel back to life.

-- Gary, South Central Wisconsin. So much to learn, so little time!

The rusty pitted dinged dirty ugly ugly ugly chisle is now a happy chesel with a new young friend.

-- Ron in Osseo, Minnesota

A very nice handle and a good finish. What is the idea in fixing the brass ferrule at the far end of the handle?
Sharad

-- patanjali

What a great father-son project. It turned out beautiful, and you don’t have to hang it on the refrigerator.

In response to Sharad’s question.

A ferrule (a corruption of Latin viriola “small bracelet,” under the influence of ferrum “iron.”) is a name for types of metal objects, generally used for fastening, joining, or reinforcement. They are often narrow circular rings of metal, or less commonly, plastic.

That’s the Wikipedia definition. I think it fits.

I have some Sorby chisels that have a similar brass ring at the top and some older Swans Underhills and Witherbys that have steel rings. The purpose is to limit the “mushrooming” and/or splitting under heavy mallet use. In reality this one probably won’t get whacked that hard, but the brass looks cool.

-- Here I post the good, for the rest has become firewood.