Blue Spruce chisels

[SteveS]

Blue Spruce Toolworks allows the buyer to provide their own wood for handles. I have some stock left from a large afzelia burl slab and needed some chisels for dovetail work.

[Arlin Eastman]

Steve

That is some very nice handles for sure. Are the chisels cheap to buy?

Arlin

[SteveS]

Depends on how you define cheap. I paid $330 for those four including shipping. Normally I wouldn't pay that much for chisels (my bench chisels are cheap Marples) but I wanted some specifically for cleaning up hand cut dovetails and my paypal account had lots of money in it.

[Arlin Eastman]

Yep out of my budget. That money would buy 300 pen kits for everyone.

Arlin

[KlausK.]

Outstanding! The well known Blue Spruce high quality chisels and this wonderful handle wood are going together in a perfect way. The tool and the wood deserve each other.

Klaus

[Mike Brady]

Are those infused with resin like their production chisels?

[SteveS]

AFAIK, they do stabilize the handles, but don't know if they use the same process as their maple handles. They are paring chisels so they aren't meant to be used with a mallet. I suspect that these burl handles wouldn't stand up to that type of use.

[AHill]

Very nice! I have a pair of cocobolo fishtail chisels from Blue Spruce. Almost too nice to use, but I still pull them out of the box just to look at. Dave Jeske is a true artist with his chisels. Great attention to detail, both on the handles and the machining of the steel.

[TroutVictor]

I too gave into temptation and got the skew chisels in coco bola. Looked so nice I went for the set of butt chisels. They work really well and are beautiful to look at. Just a joy to hold and use.

[Steve N]

Dave made me a pair of fishtails with Spalted Maple with his infusion process, they are near and dear to me. I had an XYZ fishtail that just never stayed sharp, some kind of junk metal. Never a problem with these 2.