hand forged chain damascus socket chisel

You filthy bugger. Now you need to make a set. Simple words don’t really cover it.

-- Shooting down the walls of heartache. Bang bang. I am. The warrior.

Thanks Fridge. I really want to make a set and a nice box to store them, but I probably logged 10 hours or more into this thing over the last week and a half… it would take a while. The actual forging took about 2.5 hours, and about killed me with my weak arms.

I never actually measured the width until just now, but the blade ended up at 13/16” wide. So I guess I’d be making an unusual fraction size set :) .

-- Allen, Colorado (Instagram @bobasaurus_woodworking)

Fantastic!

13/16”, lol. I have seen a number of oddball chisels over the years. Probably guys ground to to a specific size for some long lost reason. 100 years from now and someone will be puzzling over this one.

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OMG!!!!! Amazballz, Allen, truly.

-- I came - I sawed - I over-built

This is awesome, Love this. Congrats and thx for sharing.

-- Ken, "Everyday above ground is a good day!"

That actually is pretty dang impressive! And the finished piece has a certain elegance to it.

-- I just got done cutting three boards and all four of them were too short. (true story)

Too cool for words! Great job on both the forging an the handle.

-- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is.

This is an amazing work of craftsmanship, you did a fantastic job. The look of those links in the final product creates an awe inspiring effect.

-- "I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The point is to bring them the real facts." - Abraham Lincoln

Looks fantastic!

How did you bend the “socket end” so you’d have a nice round taper for the handle to fit into it?

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Whoa, that is really cool. Keep pumping that iron.

-- Bondo Gaposis

This is extraordinary velding job!

-- Ivan, Croatia, Wooddicted

+10 to all of the above Allen! Wicked cool.

-- "The only limits to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today." - FDR

Looks fantastic!

How did you bend the “socket end” so you d have a nice round taper for the handle to fit into it?

- JoeinGa

My guess is he used the tip of the horn to bend around.

-- Nick, “I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it.” – Vincent Van Gogh

Very cool.

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Beautiful work, Allen. I missed seeing the O1 in the original billet, so was wondering how you got the clean bevel to cut with.

Nice job shaping the socket!

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