<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Ah, tang I understand.<div>Thank you.</div><div>John Ross<br><div><div>On 2013-01-19, at 7:44 PM, "Joseph Garrett" <<a href="mailto:joegarrett@earthlink.net">joegarrett@earthlink.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">
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<div>John,</div>
<div>You being from the "neighbors to the North", perhaps you call them something else.<G></div>
<div> Where the handle starts on the chisel, it is a cone shaped "socket" that a similarly shaped wooden handle is inserted into. It's a force fit, usually with a slit/wedge in the tip of the pointed handle. Look closely at the photo of my set an you'll see how/where the handle is. The chisel in the middle is NOT a Socket Chisel! It is a Tang Chisel. i.e. the chisel has a tang that installs into a handle, usually by driving it into a hole of the handle. Hope that helps.</div>
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<div style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><b>From:</b> <a title="jrpiano@bellaliant.net" href="mailto:jrpiano@bellaliant.net">John Ross</a> </div>
<div style="FONT: 10pt arial"><b>To: </b><a title="joegarrett@earthlink.net" href="mailto:joegarrett@earthlink.net">joegarrett@earthlink.net</a>;<a title="pianotech@ptg.org" href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</a></div>
<div style="FONT: 10pt arial"><b>Sent:</b> 1/19/2013 3:21:00 PM </div>
<div style="FONT: 10pt arial"><b>Subject:</b> Re: [pianotech] Socket Chisels (salvaged)</div>
<div><br></div><font size="2">I must have forgotten, but, what is a 'socket' chisel?
<div>John Ross</div>
<div>Windsor, Nova Scotia<br>
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<div>On 2013-01-19, at 7:01 PM, "Joseph Garrett" <<a href="mailto:joegarrett@earthlink.net">joegarrett@earthlink.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
<blockquote type="cite">Ron, <br>Here"s a couple of photos of the set The one on the left is my bridge<br>chisel w/the rounded corner. The next three are the most recent<br>aquisitions. The little short one, (which I, incorrectly labeled as a 1/2"<br>in my past post), 3/4" is the one I got from my Son.<G> Btw, it has been<br>earth hardened, (notice the "pock marks").<G> Holds a good edge. The one in<br>the middle is not a socket, but was acquired at a National Convention. It<br>was used in a Sharpening Class, by Joel & Priscilla and sold to me after<br>the class was over. It's the youngest one in the bunch and isn't the<br>quality of the others, in terms of the quality of steel and edge holding<br>ability.<br>Best,<br>Joe<br><br>Joe Garrett, R.P.T.<br>Captain of the Tool Police<br>Squares R I<br><a href="http://gpianoworks.com/">http://gpianoworks.com/</a><br><span><Wood Chisels - Socket Type.jpg></span></blockquote></div><br>
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