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Axminster starter chisel set
http://www.axminster.co.uk/recno/1/p...-Set-21761.htm
"What chisels to get" is a perennial question and the usual answer is to avoid sets because they're a bad choice. Here's a set that's a good selection, good quality, and a decent price (for the UK) - £62. 3/4" Roughing gouge 3/8" Bowl gouge 3/8" Spindle gouge 1" Oval skew Diamond parter 3/4" Round nose scraper Handles are nicely shaped ash and the tools are a good length. Gouge grinds are less than perfect (competent, but simple) and you'll probably benefit from re-shaping the wings to personal taste. The "bowl" gouge is a particularly nice hefty tool, some inches longer than the spindle gouge. Axminster also sell these as separate chisels and IMHO it's worth buying a second one of them. Sharpen one as a bowl gouge, the other as a finger-ground spindle gouge and you have an excellent large spindle for turning chairlegs and similar sized pieces. The downside of some cheap sets is too many useless scrapers. This one just gives you the one, that's OK for bowl work. For box hollowing though you might find a square-ended scraper useful too. The skew is something of a compromise. It's a fine tool, but a 1" oval isn't the most commonly useful size. Perhaps this would be better as a 3/4" ? The oval shaping is nicely done and makes it much more flexible for rolling large beads - however 1" is big and there just aren't that many things you really need it for. For big cylinders a flat 1" skew is a bit more stable to use. For most beads a 3/4" or 1/2" is easier to handle. |
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