The most recent edition of "How It's Made" shows two stories of
interest to woodworkers: The first shows how they laminate and finish
wheels for expensive boats. A lot of scarf joints, router work,
glueing, clamping and a weather resistant spray finish. The second
shows the forging of chisels starting from high carbon steel rod
stock. Process shows hardening, tempering, grinding and sharpening.
They hollow grind and put on a micro bevel. Not a bad investment of
half an hour. Anyone else see it?
Joe G

I saw the chisels. They sure do bang them out. It was interesting to see
how theya re doen. It was more automated than I had thought.

GROVER wrote:
The most recent edition of "How It's Made" shows two stories of
interest to woodworkers: The first shows how they laminate and finish
wheels for expensive boats. A lot of scarf joints, router work,
glueing, clamping and a weather resistant spray finish. The second
shows the forging of chisels starting from high carbon steel rod
stock. Process shows hardening, tempering, grinding and sharpening.
They hollow grind and put on a micro bevel. Not a bad investment of
half an hour. Anyone else see it?
Joe G

On Apr 7, 10:46 am, "GROVER" wrote:
The second
shows the forging of chisels starting from high carbon steel rod
stock. Process shows hardening, tempering, grinding and sharpening.
They hollow grind and put on a micro bevel.

What brand?

On Apr 7, 11:56 am, "Father Haskell" wrote:
On Apr 7, 10:46 am, "GROVER" wrote:

The second
shows the forging of chisels starting from high carbon steel rod
stock. Process shows hardening, tempering, grinding and sharpening.
They hollow grind and put on a micro bevel.

What brand?

They didn't feature the brand, but the chisels had the look of the
Stanley brand with thier amber plastic handles and a metal protective
disc on the top of the handle for striking. The show is produced in
Canada so maybe its a brand only distributed there.
Joe G

On Apr 8, 12:30 pm, "GROVER" wrote:
On Apr 7, 11:56 am, "Father Haskell" wrote:

On Apr 7, 10:46 am, "GROVER" wrote:

The second
shows the forging of chisels starting from high carbon steel rod
stock. Process shows hardening, tempering, grinding and sharpening.
They hollow grind and put on a micro bevel.

What brand?

They didn't feature the brand, but the chisels had the look of the
Stanley brand with thier amber plastic handles and a metal protective
disc on the top of the handle for striking. The show is produced in
Canada so maybe its a brand only distributed there.
Joe G

Probably Stanleys. Marples uses the same process, with
additional finish.

Of all the shows I've seen myself, almost none of the products they show
being made are well-known brand names in the USA.

Nevertheless, it's interesting to see how they're actually manufactured, no
matter what brand they are.

"Father Haskell" wrote in message
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On Apr 8, 12:30 pm, "GROVER" wrote:
On Apr 7, 11:56 am, "Father Haskell" wrote:

On Apr 7, 10:46 am, "GROVER" wrote:

The second
shows the forging of chisels starting from high carbon steel rod
stock. Process shows hardening, tempering, grinding and sharpening.
They hollow grind and put on a micro bevel.

What brand?

They didn't feature the brand, but the chisels had the look of the
Stanley brand with thier amber plastic handles and a metal protective
disc on the top of the handle for striking. The show is produced in
Canada so maybe its a brand only distributed there.
Joe G

Probably Stanleys. Marples uses the same process, with
additional finish.

On Apr 8, 3:10 pm, "HDRDTD" wrote:
Of all the shows I've seen myself, almost none of the products they show
being made are well-known brand names in the USA.

Nevertheless, it's interesting to see how they're actually manufactured, no
matter what brand they are.

"Father Haskell" wrote in message

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On Apr 8, 12:30 pm, "GROVER" wrote:
On Apr 7, 11:56 am, "Father Haskell" wrote:

On Apr 7, 10:46 am, "GROVER" wrote:

The second
shows the forging of chisels starting from high carbon steel rod
stock. Process shows hardening, tempering, grinding and sharpening.
They hollow grind and put on a micro bevel.

What brand?

They didn't feature the brand, but the chisels had the look of the
Stanley brand with thier amber plastic handles and a metal protective
disc on the top of the handle for striking. The show is produced in
Canada so maybe its a brand only distributed there.
Joe G

Probably Stanleys. Marples uses the same process, with
additional finish.

Greenlee used to make a nice copy of Marples Bluechips, green
handles instead of blue.

HDRDTD wrote:

Of all the shows I've seen myself, almost none of the products they show
being made are well-known brand names in the USA.


That's because it is a Canadian program.

Nevertheless, it's interesting to see how they're actually manufactured, no
matter what brand they are.


Presumably the production process is similar to how the equivalent items
used to be produced in the US back when the US actually produced stuff.
Presumably the production process is similar in China, minus the quality
control, equipment maintenance and worker safety.

Pete C.