On Feb 22, 8:33 pm, "Mike Dembroge"
wrote:
"Father Haskell" wrote in message

ups.com... On Feb 22, 6:56 pm, "Mike Dembroge"
wrote:

It has always struck me as odd that writers and authors always mention
"sharp" when discussing the use of chisels and not other tools.

Then you're not reading enough.

Really? Do you have an example of something in a recent article or
publication where a tool, other than a chisel, was mentioned as needing to
be sharp?

Yes. Bench planes. Card scrapers. Files. Handsaws.
Shovels...

Hatchets. ESPECIALLY hatchets. They're not sharp enough
to bite, they glance, sometimes into pieces of meat belonging
to say, you. Jerry Garcia lost one finger this way. Tony
Iommi from Black Sabbath lost two.

Doesn't leave much else besides hammers.

Is it
really more important for a chisel to be sharp than any other tool?

A dull chisel is far more likely to cut you than a dull plane iron.

A dull tablesaw blade can cause all sorts of problems too. No?

Slightly harder feed, mostly. I'm still using the Systimatic 50
tooth combo that came with my saw 12 years ago, never
sharpened.