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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.
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Steve
That is some very nice handles for sure. Are the chisels cheap to buy?
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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.
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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.
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Are those infused with resin like their production chisels?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Yep out of my budget. That money would buy 300 pen kits for everyone.
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