Best Chisels for Cleaning Up Housing Joints in Softwood
What a housing joint asks of a chisel A housing, or dado, is a groove...
Equipment
Best Wide Chisels for Paring Broad Timber Surfaces
What wide chisels are for Wide chisels are useful when the job is removing or...
How to Stop a Chisel from Skating on Hardwood
Why a chisel skates on hardwood A chisel tends to skate when its edge is...
Best Chisels for Cutting Lock Mortises in Interior Doors
Cutting a lock mortise is mostly controlled paring, not heavy chopping. For a typical interior...
How to Protect Chisel Edges in a Tool Belt or Site Bag
A sharp chisel edge can be damaged by a hammer, a loose screw, or another...
How to Fit a Replacement Handle to a Socket Chisel
Check the chisel before buying a handle A replacement handle needs to fit the socket,...
How to Pare a Tenon Shoulder to a Knife Line
A clean tenon shoulder is a small surface with little room to hide errors. Pare...
How to Keep Chisels Sharp During a Full Day on Site
Why chisel edges go dull on site A chisel can lose its keen edge in...
How to Use a Corner Chisel to Square a Hinge Recess
What a corner chisel does A corner chisel cuts the square inside corners left by...
How to Remove Mushrooming from a Chisel Handle Ferrule
Mushrooming on a chisel’s metal ferrule is a rolled lip or raised burr caused by...