What CHISELS do you NEED?

hello everyone I bet you can't guess what today's video is going to be based on that's right honing gun nope not making that mistake again this video will be based on chisels different types they're different uses and hopefully give you a clearer understanding by the end of the video so let's go anyway if you didn't get that reference at the start with introducing the wrong tools be sure to watch my told your video where I introduced marking gauges as honing guides no idea how I did it but anyway getting into this video disclaimer before I start I don't have any Japanese chisels here because I haven't used them before and I wouldn't do them justice if I try to explain them to you so I'm going to leave them out here let's do your own research on that and also all of this stuff I'm gonna gear towards furniture making again not focusing on carpentry here but if you are a carpenter you might get some tips anyway so carry on watching so with that in mind get in close and let's see what we got here sooo because we obviously have so many chisels here I'm going to do a quick rundown of all of their names and then I'll talk about them all in more detail so firstly this is a paring chisel then we've got some firmer chisels here we've got a mortise chisel we've got a corner chisel we've got a fishtail chisel we've got two skewed chisels here we've got a micro chisel we got bevel edge chisels all the way through to here and we've got bevel edge chisels that are based more towards carpentry over here so let's talk about the paring chisel to start with so you're probably looking at this and thinking Christ that's a bit excessive isn't it yep pretty much but for good reason the reason this is so long is because one it's preparing so say if you had a groove that you wanted to clear out in the bottom you would be able to go all the way through to that and you'll be able to have a much father reach than you would with the standard chisel also having something this length means that you could use it to pare down Tenon's for example if you're fitting it into a mortise if you don't have something like a shoulder plane you're relying on a chisel using this gives you a bigger point of reference and you can also find the angle that you hold the handle with a smaller chisel like this it's a bit harder to get those precise adjustments but something over this length you can get really really micro adjustments okay a pair and chisel is very useful to have I don't actually have one in my kit but looking at this one I really want one now it's just it's like a sword so next one's thermo chisels now if you've read your granddad's garage affirmative is probably what you're most likely to find in there now before the days of power tools these would have been used to maybe chop out hinges chop out locks and things like that they have a very robust build on them the handles are made of beech so you can whack it with a hammer so they're good all-rounder tools when it comes to carpentry but furniture making you'll find uses for them occasionally but they won't be quite as versatile and I'll show you that later on these are some modern-day firmer chisels made by kerschen and you'll see here that these actually have bevels on the top of them so that sometimes throws a bit of people off when they think that all they need to get a bevel a chisel for furniture making this one has beveled edges it's shiny I'll buy that but this is actually still a fir material and you know that by how thick these sides are generally having flat spots that thick on the side of a chisel can be limiting for furniture making so that's firma chisels they used to be sort of the norm but now they're kind of a little bit outdated but people still find uses for them I still find uses for them great for opening paint pots this one I didn't say that next one what is chisel so mortise chisel as you can see is a bit of a chunky monkey it's kind of got a similar shape to a fur material in that obviously flat on top and the sides are Square to it but look at the thickness difference so as the name would imply a mortise chisel is used for chopping out mortises so it's a really robust build on it you can absolutely whack this thing you're not going to experience any power loss when you're hitting it with a hammer cause obviously this is just so thick and also the fact that these sides are square to the cutting faces and they're also a large bearing surface means that once you start getting further down into that mortise it's going to help it locate side to side which is obviously great because no one wants a bendy mortise so that's pretty much what and what is chisel is chop it out mortises so the next ones let's look at corner chisels fishtail chisels and skew chisels so a corner chisel as the name would imply they after chopping out a 90-degree corner so this is really handy especially in the modern as well because when you're ratting out hinges for example and you want to chop that corner out and just get the final 90 degrees in there where the router bit hasn't been able to get right into the corner pop one of these in there whack it once and then you've got a perfect 90-degree corner and you've finished off the round over left by the router so they're handy in applications like that it's quick and easy you can't really get it wrong also if you're doing a shallow water it's not anything too heavy where you need them to rely on these but shallow mortises I sometimes drill them out having something like this would be handy if I actually owned one to clear out those corners left by the round drill bit so call it chisels next one is the fishtail chisel so fishtail chisel comes into its own when you're doing lap dovetails because the shape of it allows you to get right into the back corner of all the sockets and you can clean out all the waste in there that might prevent the tails from bottoming out in them so they're pretty handy in that respect and obviously you can use them for other skewed applications the only thing you've got to watch out with these is that you can't really overuse them because I'll see that fishtail isn't a massive length from there so you can't you can't re grind this to start with you're going to be wanting to work with secondary bevels on this mainly and really prolong the life that tool just use it for that final nipping out of the corner so that's pretty good you call it a limited use but they're handy to have these ones here are skew chisels and in a similar application these are very good at again cleaning out the corners of dovetail sockets on lap dovetails so you can get right into the corner on the right hand side with this one then it's corner on the left hand side for this one and obviously these are standard chisel shape so you can grind these all the way down you're not limited by the steel that you have on the end of this fishtail chisel so that's skewed chisels and they also have other uses as well they can be a bit of a nightmare to sharpen but if you watched my video on comparing the Leigh Neilson honing guide with the Veritas honing guide you'll know that there are options out there to sharpen something like this accurately without doing it freehand or I said it oh dear right next one's bevel edge chisels so without ruining the end too much bevel edge tools are probably the most versatile ones out there obviously if you get a specified mortise chisel that's gonna be better for mortising but you can still do like mortising with a bevel edge chisel similarly you could also do pairing with these you don't necessarily need to get a paring chisel but the paring chisel has character sticks that are better for that task over something like this so the ones we've got here this one here is a micro cheese and this is by Ashley Isles I got this when I was making a small model at Reich Atwood it's just a really really tiny blade on that and it actually has bevel edges on it still so characteristics of these they have bevel edges on them which doesn't seem like a massive deal for people who are just starting off but when you come to dovetailing the fact that you have those tapered edges on there means that you can get right down to the baseline when you're cleaning out the tails for example whereas the square corners on a furnitures all would bruise the edges of the tails and then show up in the finished joint so that's kind of the main advantage with a bevel edge chisel one thing you need to look out for these is that a good quality bevel edge chisel the bevels come down to a fine point on the end if not a complete point like they do on these very tough ones whereas once of a lesser quality will come to a much thicker point they'll still call them bevel edge chisels but you'll just start bruising the corners when you're cutting dovetails for example so when it comes to buying these check to see how small that flat spot is on the side here ideally you want it to be as small as possible I will be covering this in my next toward your video so next one's butt chisels yeah it's a great name isn't it but chisel yeah so these are pretty much exactly the same as a bevel edge chisel but as you can see they're smaller so not really many advantages these have over standard chisels other than being able to fit into smaller spaces so perhaps if you've assembled a carcass and you haven't cut out the hinges yet you need to be able to get your chisel inside that carcass and still have enough space to hit it on top with the hammer something like this would allow you to do that in most cases whereas something like this may not fit inside that carcass and if it does you're not gonna have a lot of room on top here to hit it with the hammer so that's pretty much all the butt chisel does it doesn't chisel out butts it's just full confined spaces next one's let's look at these carpentry chisels here so you can usually define carpentry chisels by two things firstly the handles on them are made from this like plasticy rubber sort of thing and secondly on the ends of them they have got metal caps on them so as you'll be able to see on these stanley chisels the metal on the end goes all the way through the handle and right the way through to the blade which makes these great for absolutely whacking with a hammer because you lose absolutely no energy whatsoever by hitting that it's transferred straight through to the plate whereas if you were whacking something like a wooden handle chisel with hammer firstly you might end up splitting the handle especially if you're using a metal hammer generally these are okay with wooden mallets especially if they've got split proof handles on them but if you're whacking these with a metal hammer you're gonna start damaging the end of it it's gonna start mushrooming over and you're gonna lose a lot of power in it having a carpentry chisel you've got metal end on it goes straight through and you can absolutely whack these things so we've got two types here these ones are from Stanley these ones are accidents the branded ones and as you can see these both have bevel edges on them and they are both sold as bevel edge chisels now I'm gonna say this now it's not going to be in at all dual video because I might as well get out of the way if you're getting into furniture making you're see told to buy bevel edge chisels do not be fooled by the stanley ones here because look at the size of the flat spots on the side of them like I said earlier if you're gonna try and dovetail with these you're gonna Bruce the hell out of your dovetails with that so these will be good for carpentry don't get me wrong on that but don't be fooled by the name on them they have beveled edges on them but they're just not quite there these ones on Axminster come down to a relatively fine point it may still be a little bit limited when it comes to furniture making but you could probably work around that so when it comes to buying your first one let's start narrowing them down though so it's obviously going to be a quick process because I kind of gave away what the final results going to be so start with paring chisel don't really need it to start with at least you might find uses for it later so firmer chisels they've kind of been outdated by bevel edge chisels so that's know if you're doing stuff around the house you might still find use for Thermo chisels but me not necessarily as a furniture maker so obviously the stanley ones here didn't really rate them as bevel edge chisels so we're going to get rid of them I can't click me and magic apparently so let's move these ones in so starting off you don't really need a corner chisel either so and now when it comes to clearing out the back of dovetail sockets for example you've kind of got the choice here between fishtail and skew chisels for me I would probably go for the skew chisels because first they've got a wider sweep on them so you could get into steepness cues and also they're gonna last a bit longer as well so fish church is always nice to have so in most cases I would probably say that a skew chisel is more versatile but do your own research on that one now we're sort of getting into difficult ground because it depends on the sort of work you're doing if you think you're gonna be doing lots of hand more thing for example you're awfully going to need a mortise chisel for me I haven't actually needed one because I've had access to mortises and stuff in the past and in all honesty I was drilling out mortises and then for cleaning up with my bevel edge chisel so it is much better to have a designated mortise chisel cannot argue against that but I wouldn't say get them to start with I would say buy them when you actually need them or when you're going to be doing a lot of more things so let's get rid of them now like I said earlier skew chisels they're good to have if you're doing lots of lap dovetails they're pretty versatile but in terms of starting off you probably don't need them again unless you're gonna be doing lots of dovetailing which if your furniture making you probably will be that's why I've left them in this late but to start with you don't really need them so I'm gonna get rid of them and whoopee-doo look at that we're left with all the bevel edge chisels so let's get these centered see yeah as you would expect I've been left with bev less chisels because they're usually the most versatile for furniture making so we've got a couple here that I can still get rid of micro chisel that's if you're gonna be doing lots of fine model making and really really fine joinery iets buy it specifically for one use and that is what I would recommend you doing you don't really need them to start off so and but chisels again you might need them but I would probably say that something of this or size it's more of a standard size it's a bit more versatile so get rid of these as well and there we go after all that I've been left with standard bevel edge chisels the most versatile of them all but question is next which brand do you get so that I'm afraid will be covered in a future video being a tall jewel and that will be out next and that will be covering all of the bevel edge skills that I have here things to look out for and what I would recommend you buy now some of you might ask what sizes you should get start with and again this is very dependent on what sort of work you're doing what I would advise you is looking at what sort of kits that manufacturers have available so Lee Nilson for example supplied chisels in sets of five and usually that's a good set that will cover the most tasks for you with me my set of standard chisels ranges from six millimeters so a quarter inch all the way up to a three quarter inch of or 19/20 millimeters same and that's pretty much covered most uses for me so any questions I'll see Chuck and below and hopefully that's clear things up for you [Music] [Applause] 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Channel: Matt Estlea

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Length: 14min 7sec (847 seconds)

Published: Mon Oct 23 2017