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Review Summary I went up to woodcraft and got my set the other day already have a set of the butt chisels. For more related content, subscribe to our newsletter! They are hit and miss as wood river chisel mallet 88 malelt workmanship goes but they are all OK but I am just picky so I cherry picked through them. Keep the Wood River chisels, let them be the daily-user "beater" chisels and don't worry too much about them. Learn more wood river chisel mallet 88 Amazon Prime. Get it as soon as Wed, Mar

Happy wife - happy life, as they say. I understand where you're coming from but if you have young babies you probably have time in your life to buy other chisels on down the road. You said they were an improvement on what you already have so keeping them sounds like a win win situation to me. The wood River chisels get pretty strong reviews, I say keep them and down the road you may decide to upgrade and you can use the Wood River for your beater chisels.

I've got 4 wood river butt chisels, they do what they are designed to do, I don't spend hours using them, but they hold an edge, as well as my Narex chisels. Oh-ho-ho, Hee-hee-hee, Ahh-ha-ha-haaaa. I'm an amateur compared to some of the Neanders out there and these are just what I don't keep at the bench. Seriously though. I have an old set of Marples that are probably about the same quality.

I still reach for them as often as not for general work. I'd probably keep 'em. It's freeing to have some tools that aren't Cadillacs in the shop. Keep the Wood River chisels, let them be the daily-user "beater" chisels and don't worry too much about them.

It's great to have a set that you really don't care how bad they get treated. If you use your "beater" chisels daily, when do you use your good ones??? By that standard, I must feel very "free" I have a lot of non-Cadillac tools. I am slowly upgrading the junk I acquired in my 20's with higher quality stuff. I was planning to use the Harbor Freight el-cheapos as my "beater" chisels for scraping glue or rough carpentry. The new chisels were intended to by my good ones.

I'll PM you my address, so you can get rid of those 'low quality' WoodRiver chisels! It's a paradox, isn't it? In my case, not everything is a jewel box, so I use the beaters when "good enough" is good enough.

The other day I was making my own wood mallet and I needed to trim a bit of wood from the handle. Worked fine and I moved on to the next step. Would a high-end chisel in top condition have worked better? Would it have made a visible difference in the end result? If I was handcrafting dovetails in expensive hardwood, then yes, I'd prefer using a really good chisel. Right now most of my work is of the "good enough" variety and the Marples daily users fit my work habits just fine.

I own both Narex and WR. Both are good enough for me. The Narex has side bevels that are much smaller. But the WoodRiver keep an edge just as well, if not better. I'd be happy to have a nice set of wood river chisels.

I'd definitely keep them and even cherish them, especially if they were a gift from someone you love. You are lucky to have a wife thoughtful enough to give you such nice chisels as a gift.

You are right. As I review my original post I realize how petty and trivial it must seem. If I spent half as much time building projects as I do researching tools and techniques, I'd have a lot less Ikea junk in my house!!

I am sure these chisels will be just fine. Thanks for all of the replies. I definitely didn't mean to imply that you were being petty or trivial.

I just wanted to provide some perspective. I think it is easy to go overboard on tool purchases and to undervalue sentiment behind a nice thoughtful gift. If the chisels were a terrible value for the price, I might feel differently and not want my wife to have wasted her money, so asking the question isn't a bad thing. Since they are nice serviceable chisels at what seems like a fair price, to me keeping them is a no brainer.

Most or even maybe all of my chisels are probably not as nice as those though. Do you use it often? Threadjack Alert. I use a fair amount of figured material so I may do more card scraping than the next guy.

I find card scraper holders fairly useless. The scraper plane is a super-refined scraper holder with a large, flat reference sole and fine adjustments. It comes in handy but, it is not used on every project.

For scraping on larger panels it helps me avoid card-scraping irregularities into the surface. It also excels at cleaning up glue lines but, this activity increases your sharpening interval. The iron is stout and with a good hook on it you can get a very nice surface right across things like curly or birds eye maple. Sharpening requires the same basic skills as putting a hook on a card scraper. I only mention this because others have asked if a scraper plane is easier to use than a card scraper.

After some discussion we found that what they were really asking is "will this solve the troubles I have sharpening my card scrapers"; it will not. Pica - Pocket With Carpenter Pencil. Pica - Dry Longlife Automatic Pen. Pinnacle - 6" Double Square. General Tools - Square Head Protractor. Mallet and gave it a lightly textured, cool aluminum handle, which provided the heft and feel we were after, along with a kinder-to-your-tool nylon head.

Our mallet is not just for carvers but also for anyone who needs to lightly drive a chisel or set a joint. Trim dowels or dovetails, do detail carving, tighten up a chair joint or close a gap in almost any joint with a light tap or a hard smack.

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