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I am making the drawers for the bed side tables. These are hand cut dovetail drawers. I wanted to put the slenderness of these chisels to the test, so I am making Houndstooth half blinds at 7 to 1 ratio. That makes the small pins very fragile and easy to fracture. The chisels were great and held an edge... they were immediate favorites and I used them to pare and also to chop using a medium carvers mallet with a light touch. To make things more difficult one edge is a half overlay front so the saw stroke is really limited. This is almost only possible with a pull saw, so the lip is not scared with the forward push strokes. It is an advanced dovetail, but the same techniques are used as for regular half blinds. I don't suggest anyone try these to start with, but in a short while , with practice it is very manageable. The chisels are
perfect for dovetails, period! I added my 1/16" Two
Cherries and a coupe of wide Japanese chisels for the long
stretches on the pin board. They are comfortable and even
with these tiny dovetails were in control and a real pleasure to
use. I have many different chisels and these are the best
I found so far for fine joinery.
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