Bay Area Dave wrote:
sorry to drive you nuts, Dave! I THOUGHT you had said that I was
using a mallet on a chisel type that shouldn't be struck with one. If I
got you wrong, I'm sorry.
There IS the possibility that I got one really crappy sample of a
Marples chisel, too, and had I tried another it might have fared better.
In any event, it wouldn't work for MY intended purpose so it's just as
well that I returned it.

Fair enough. I've got a couple sets of the Blue chips and haven't had
any problems with them. From the responses it sounds like the quality
control is slipping and they turned out a bad batch. I've got an old st
of Bucks (mad in USA) that are nice too. Makes me wonder if the slip in
quality had to do with the Record or with Rubbermaid. Record's used to
metal, hmmm.
Dav in Fairfax
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