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droogs wrote:When we were on holiday in the Czech Rep a couple of years ago, I wanted to visit Narex in brystice but SWMBO wouldn't let me as I would have had to leave here behind when coming home to meet the weight allowance. She was right
novocaine wrote:Chris101 wrote:Stop it.
Yer ok. walks away mumbling like a scolded teenager.
Trevanion wrote:(He didn't test the extraordinarily expensive £100 each IBC or Blue Spruce chisels for example) on the market today...
TrimTheKing wrote:
I have a full set of six Blue Spruce paring chisels I bought back in 2008, cocobolo handles, truly beautiful things and a joy to use. I spoke directly to Dave Jeske (Blue spruce founder) to see how I could get them as cheaply as possible and eventually bought them direct from him and had them delivered to a hotel in Philadelphia where my wife was on business for a week, thus saving delivery and import duty costs.
Now here's the good bit, despite them being ridiculously priced for chisels, and by that I mean a lot to pay for ANY chisel, not that he's overpricing them, (we'll gloss over that) I bought when the $ value was on its knees compared to the £ so I just checked back and I paid £285 all in for them, the set with the beech handles, which is cheaper, is currently £540 on Classic Hand Tools!!!
TrimTheKing wrote:I have a full set of six Blue Spruce paring chisels I bought back in 2008, cocobolo handles, truly beautiful things and a joy to use. I spoke directly to Dave Jeske (Blue spruce founder) to see how I could get them as cheaply as possible and eventually bought them direct from him and had them delivered to a hotel in Philadelphia where my wife was on business for a week, thus saving delivery and import duty costs.
Now here's the good bit, despite them being ridiculously priced for chisels, and by that I mean a lot to pay for ANY chisel, not that he's overpricing them, (we'll gloss over that) I bought when the $ value was on its knees compared to the £ so I just checked back and I paid £285 all in for them, the set with the beech handles, which is cheaper, is currently £540 on Classic Hand Tools!!!
AndyT wrote:It's pleasing to see that they are proper bevel edged chisels, not just firmer chisels with the corners knocked off. (Someone gave me a current production Irwin Marples which falls into that "why did they bother?" category but I am sure there are plenty more.)
Andy Kev. wrote:Talking of high prices for expensive chisels, have a look at these Japanese paring chisels:
https://www.fine-tools.com/usu-nomi.html
If you allow the cookies to be enabled, you will get to see which ones have sold out. Once you've got past the first lot, let your mind boggle at the second lot and at the fact that the two most expensive of them have also sold out!
Andy Kev. wrote:Talking of high prices for expensive chisels, have a look at these Japanese paring chisels:
https://www.fine-tools.com/usu-nomi.html
If you allow the cookies to be enabled, you will get to see which ones have sold out. Once you've got past the first lot, let your mind boggle at the second lot and at the fact that the two most expensive of them have also sold out!
Woodbloke wrote:What you pay for is the fancy blacksmith's work with those über-expensive chisels. They actually work no better as 'users' than the ordinary ones. I have a similar set of those less expensive ones from Workshop Heaven which will take and hold a superb edge, but which are only used light and delicate hand paring. The fancy ones do look pretty though - Rob
Trevanion wrote:As you say Rob, the pattern steel backer is purely cosmetic and adds no other function to the chisel, the laminated carbon steel that does the cutting is the same on both chisels but the fancy chisel is £400 more
I remember someone saying that pattern steel (Damascus) tools and utensils made in Japan very rarely stay in Japan as they are quite a lucrative export to "Westerners" whilst Japanese people focused less on the tools doing the work and focus more on the quality of work being done and would simply use the very plainest and humble of tools and utensils.
AJB Temple wrote: ....often be from prestige makers such as Aritsuga or now hard to find Shigefusa. These are crazy money now.
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