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If you have ever cut a half-blind dovetail then you know how challenging cleaning out the pin socket is, especially in the corners. Not happy with the skew and fishtail chisels available, I designed and made my own half-blind chisel and they work great!
These chisels are made from our Rob Cosman IBC 5/8 inch bevel edge chisels with custom fit cherry handles.
Dovetail-shape makes accessing the back corners of the half-blind socket easy.
Sides of the chisel tip are angled to easily fit into the corners of the half-blind socket.
One chisel does both corners verses a left and right set of skew chisels.
Pushing through endgrain is tough; unlike skew chisels, our half-blind chisels keeps your line of force straight making it easier to push through the endgrain.
My students love them! Try it once and you will never want to cut half-blind dovetails without it.
This chisel is expensive but it does the work of 2 skew chisels with a better angle of attack. Much more efficient than changing from chisel to chisel during dovetails.
This chisel looks odd but works superbly to make half blind dovetails. Disclaimer: I am not an expert at half blind dovetails, I do not have any fishtail chisels to compare to this, and I hate skew chisels so much I got rid of mine after a few decades. I think this beast is extremely effective, bordering on mandatory for tough woods. Even the fat handle is effective though I don’t find it graceful in appearance. Watch your fingers when you use it. I make guards for my chisels and this thing eats chisel guards for lunch; I softened the shoulder corners and edges that are the result of precision grinding but don’t have any woodworking function I know of.
Your tools make it easier!
As always, fantastic product and what a game changer.
Got a few tools from RC and the quality is second to none
Extremely happy. Can't wait to start building with them
Thanks Rob and team
