How to Use a Chisel, Tips and Tricks for the Beginner to Intermediate Woodworker
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Chisels are great for so many things. Especially because they can be used for rough or fine stock removal. I think there’s a tendency to watch instructional videos from some really great carpenters and think you need to have these absolutely perfect mechanics to use a chisel correctly. Well, that’s just not true and to be honest, a chisel is a really simple tool to use if you follow a few basic strategies. Obviously the more practice you get the better but there’s no reason you can’t get amazing results in the early stage of your journey.
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Timestamps
Intro 0:00
Types of Chisels 0:31
Sharpness Above All Else 1:09
Tricks to Keep Your Chisel Sharper LONGER 2:06
Some Sharpening Tips for The Real World 3:42
Sharpening Systems and Jigs 4:49
Sharpening on a Bench Grinder 7:24
Chisel Use and Safety 9:26
Tips While Chopping out a Mortise 11:58
Tips for Chiseling 90 degrees Across and With the Grain 15:54
Chamfering and Edge Profile with a Chisel 20:25
Final Thoughts 21:32
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Timestamps
Intro 0:00
Types of Chisels 0:31
Sharpness Above All Else 1:09
Tricks to Keep Your Chisel Sharper LONGER 2:06
Some Sharpening Tips for The Real World 3:42
Sharpening Systems and Jigs 4:49
Sharpening on a Bench Grinder 7:24
Chisel Use and Safety 9:26
Tips While Chopping out a Mortise 11:58
Tips for Chiseling 90 degrees Across and With the Grain 15:54
Chamfering and Edge Profiling with a Chisel 20:25
Final Thoughts 21:32
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The irony of wearing a band-aid is not lost on me. I wish I had a good story but it was a not Chisel related accident. I swear 🤣🤣
I acquired my chisels, did the treatment for the first use... I noticed that when preparing the back and the chamfer, the sides are sharp too... should I break these sides so I don't have to use a band-aid?
If it cuts clean and good just get to chiseling eventually youll be able to answer your own questions@@vanderlei9728
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Using your channel as a poor man’s woodworking class. Beautiful detail, multiple views, redundancy of basics. All good. Thank you.
Nick Offerman teaches that every tool in the shop is essentially just a form of chisel. A saw is a bunch of tiny chisels in a row, a plane is just a chisel with a flat guide, even a drill bit is just a spiral shaped chisel.
or a chisel is just every other tool, but flat and with an handle 😂
A chisel is just a saw blade but just one long tooth on a stick.
What sort of chisel is a hammer? 😉
@@TrevorDennis100 a hammer is the butt end of a chisel
@@TrevorDennis100 a very heavy, dull one
I have watched a lot of wood working videos over the last several years, including a lot on chiseling. I have to say this was the most useful I have seen on the basic techniques and you teach it in a way that takes the pressure of the beginner woodworker to not try to be perfect. This is one of your most useful videos, and you have a lot of them! Thank you.
Damn good teacher! Focuses on detailed instruction, & isn't concerned with trying to be a comedian like a lot of content creators. Thanks!
Thanks Jonathan, these tip and tricks vidoes are really helpful for a new woodworker like me... keep em coming 👍👍
You brought back my Shop class in Junior High School... our teacher spent hours teaching us how to sharpen plane blades and chisels with a wet stones. Great videos, I watch one or two woodworking videos each morning with my Coffee... getting back into woodworking after a couple of decades off... I shouldn't say that because I do a lot of home repairs to my house and also I have done mission work as well, rough work framing, roofing, plumping, electrical... etc!!! . When I say I'm coming back I mean doing some cabinet work in the house... been fixing my shop/garage up... in other word's finding my tools and organizing. Made French Cleats on one wall and expanding, built two sleds... book case next week I hope! Again Great videos... PS: I like that sled stop you came up with... saw it was out of stock... I'll keep watching for it! Keep up the good work!
Learned a ton, thanks for going over this.
Bottom line: It’s hip to be square.
Love the tutorial. There are few things better than the feel and sound of a sharp chisel paring away end grain.
Really enjoy your instructions, easy to follow, clear and informative.
Love your instruction. I always learn something new/useful. Thank you.
Great post! Very informative and love the slow grinder idea for the honing. Thank you for sharing!
Man, I really like all of your videos because you do a great job making a beginner woodworker like myself understand the process,as well as keeping imperfections as a learning tool. Thank you so much.
You have a knack of taking the stress out of woodworking great tips and review thanks
Nice video Jonathan, chiselling is where i’m not the most confident, so thanks for the tips. 👌
Thank you so much for this video! I think it is the most helpful woodworking video I have ever watched!
Nice! Definitely different techniques than how I’ve been doing it all these years after learning how in 7th grade woodshop class. Thank you!
I watched your video on sharpening your chisels, and what a difference it made. My chisels are scary sharp, making them pleasant to use now. It was well worth the 2 hours it took to sharpen them all.
Between you and Rob Cosman I’ve learned more ways to take my woodworking to a higher level. Thanks you for all that you teach, excellent material.
Great introduction to the all important and versatile chisel.
Great video Jonathan! Chisels can be intimidating at first, but are so very useful.
Thanks Jona !! You're def a master!! I've learned a lot from your tut!!
I have some of my granddads old chisels and just got a new little set, i found a nice stump cut of wood on the side of the road and just started getting into working on wood. I have always loved and respected wood working. Something i learned real quick though is respect that chisel and wear closed toed shoes. Went to get a bench grinder today i had to order it though, i cant wait.
Love it! The tips on the mortise are awesome!! Thanks again for making the really helpful videos!!! Walking the chisel and slicing the corner was something I already did but had no Idea that it was an actual "thing" lol. And I always had trouble rounding over the corners with chisels, but This gives me a lot of good new info to work with!!
Keep up the videos!!!
Outstanding
Thank you for sharing your knowledge
Learned quite a bit in a short period
I appreciate you taking the time. So many don't care about this topic. Those of us who do, downloaded it.
Always informative and helpful. You have a gift for conveying the information. Take that from an ole retired "shop" teacher! Stay well and productive.
Fantastic tips, Jonathan! Thanks a bunch! 😃
I'm going to practice a lot with my scraps. 😬
Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊
My birthday was this weekend and my brother got me a really high end German set of chisels, I've otherwise only had the cheapest you could buy. This video is perfect timing!
Another great JKM instructional vid! Thanks man
So much knowledge I watched it twice. Thanks for sharing JKM
Thanks for the info! Great video as always.
Love your channel!
I need to work, again, on my chisel sharpening techniques. In Grade 9 woodshop class, I got to be the official chisel sharpener, especially repairing the mistakes other classmates made, because I had been doing it with my father for 4 or 5 years before that. Now that I have some of my grandpas old chisels, I need to get them back into fine fettle to be used again. I'm saving up for slow grinder, or barring that, definitely a variable speed grinder. Great information as always.
I was just looking at your new sharpening jig. Ordering now.
Great video as always thanks for sharing
Great video as always!
Brilliant - brilliant- so appreciated
Thanks 👍👍
Nice video! Keep them coming!
Great video! As a novice woodworker, I know to keep the soft squishy bits away from the sharp end… but in a moment of… well, just not thinking I guess, I failed in that age old mantra… I acquired my first woodworking scar from a chisel that I just wasn’t quick enough to stop myself. I started a quick little cut, realized I was doing it wrong at the very same moment the chisel slipped… fortunately no ER visit but lesson learned… the hard way. I learned a lot from this video!! Thanks.
Great details & quality
My dad taught me as a kid 60 years ago that sharp knives and sharp tools were the safest... I have unfortunently proved this to be correct on a few too many occassions
Great video. Always enjoyed listening to you explaining what you’re doing in your videos you can tell you have a lot of passion. I appreciate being able to come to your videos whenever I wanna learn something new. 👊
Amazing technology ❤️
excellent video
Great tip about only going half way across and then spinning the wood in the vise. I always worried about tear out. I recently invested in mortise chisels. Wow! What a difference in required effort!
Nice work. I love it 💞💞
Thanks for easing my fears about not getting it perfect! I have a lot more confidence now.
My wife recently got me the set of 3 japanese chisels off Amazon. They took a bit of work but they're ridiculously sharp and I use them for the final chops. They do dull fast but they also sharpen fast.
Helpful stuff.
Thanks 😊 very helpful
Thanks so much for talking about and showing chisel placement. I'm always slightly crooked or misplaced. I can get 90 degrees but there no guarantee it will be exactly the right place so I have avoided mortise and tenon joints. This could be life changing. haha.
I like how he's got a bandaid on his finger. Yes folks, chisels need to be sharp! Nice that you have a slow-speed grinder, along with I have Veritas and I agree with you on it. I also have some diamond wet stones... water is important for cooling and cleaning. I think I spend more time sharpening than actual woodwork. But man, when a chisel rolled off the bench... yikes! Great Tips!
Great video. Could help but chuckle at the appearance of the bandaid amid all the safety talk. Excited to try your honing jig!
I just ordered myself 2 good chisels now I know where to start. My other ones tend to used as glue scrapers and pry bars.
Rubber hammer are great when I use chisel. They prevent some of the step back you explained when you hammer it and it go back of where you want to go. I, too, use to put my chisels straight into my fist to have the most control possible on the trajectory. Nice video. A lot of good things I've learned.
I'm probably just strange but I did develop a technique where I do anchor chisel into my fist that is anchored to the piece I work with and use the chisel on the other side and slide i horizontally. It act like a planner if you look at the blade... i just slide the wood always away from the line. even when I hammer it I always go that way so the angle is going forward instead of backward and I'm always sure I don't take away the wood inside. Then I can do the same to the point/line and make it square. It's really effective and precise but you have to work your angle over. When you work the other side you really have to have a fine and sharp edge to be precise. That's why I want to fine sharpen all my chisel and use both ways. Dependent of the angle you want or the grain of the wood you have to know both.
Good information. I also work with leather and strop my leather cutting tools every time I use them, this cuts way down on how often a stone is needed.
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Even though I'd already digested most of these tips/tricks ... the ONE I most often fail to comply with is sneaking up to the line. Thanks JKM. $0.02
I have made several chisel 'shooting boards. Made them so I can clamp to the side of a piece and the right angle piece goes across the end of the mortice, or across like that shouldered piece you did here. Also made some at dove tail angles. Now, I need to figure one like the guide on the rabbit planes for how wide you want your rabbit.
If I have to flatten out a portion I use a wide 2 inch chisel. The greater width gives me a bit more control so I don't have one edge dipping down. Also, if the tip of the tool is too hot to the touch then you need to dip it to cool it off.
I dig it
Now I'm new to chisels but ive been sharpening knives for years and when i strop i always flip the blade between every stroke/ pass to ensure as straight of a edge as possible.
Chisels have one edge, knives usually have two.
When you're doing the paper test remember that paper has a grain. Even a very sharp knife has trouble cutting across the grain so it won't be representative of the sharpness of the tool, do the sharpness test parallel to the grain. On standard printer paper the grain seems to be running in the long direction.
I never knew that. Thanks
Great video, but not exactly what I was looking for. My Ag Principles class is working on making a birdhouse out of wood. I've already sawed a 5 inch piece of wood and a 7 inch piece with a 45 degree angle. Now we're on to chiseling down the length of the 7 inch piece of wood, but the thing is we have to chisel down the middle. We have no training other than one short instructional video that isn't even this one. I have no idea how to go about this, and quite frankly I'm nervous because my partner has already got himself and me cut twice each. I'm afraid to cut myself even once because I don't want to have any more than I already have.
Rats. I just ordered a sharpening jig from TayTools and I wish I had seen yours sooner. I’m not unhappy with the one I got after one session….. but I’d love me some Katz-Moses tools
I carry the few tools around the property to do chores as needed in a bucket..... reach in for a screw driver,..... find a draw knife.....
For Safety, I like Shawn Graham's teaching that a chisel is a two-handed tool. You should never hold the chisel in one hand and your work in the other.
Any thoughts on CBN wheels when grinding the primary bevel?
ah my goal is to make all the furnitures in my home wood and all without using nails at all :D
6:43 "It's great to be square" - Jonathan Katz-Moses, 2022
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My first real edge tools, bravo narex!
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Another great video. I'm gonna check out your jig. Thanks. Hey Jonathan, I bought the jig but the free sharpening setup block pdf is not included in the email receipts or shipping notices. I also looked on your website again and could not find this pdf. So if you can tell me how to get the pdf, I would appreciate it. Thanks.
Cutting paper with a sharpened edge will dull the edge. Just drag your finger over it, you can feel if there is a burr and how sharp it is. You can see the shine on the edge if it's sharp.
Do you use the smooth side or rough side of the leather for your stropping?
Diamonds stones cost have come way down. You can get a decent double sided one for around $50-$60. There are some even cheaper that i'm doing a long term test on now to see if they stand up
Great video 👍🏻! I have a question about the grinder sharpening. With successive heatings and quick coolings, aren’t you making the edge of the chisel brittle and more prone to wear?
The point is not to let the edge get to a critical temperature. If it blues you have ruined the temper. Light straw is a touch over 200°C and I would have thought that OK. Something Jonathan did not mention is CBN wheels have the advantage of not heating the chisel so much. Because they are metal, they draw the heat away.
can u use the same whetstones for kitchen knives?
Great video, as always. By the way, your "Narex Angled/Skew Chisels I mentioned and like for getting in super tight dovetail corners" Link doesn't work.
Hello, can the Scary Sharp Sharpening System be used for sharpening card scrapers as well? Thanks in advance.
If you’re going to use a brass hammer on wood then you might as well use steel. Both are much harder than wood and will dent it just as easily as the next.
Quick tip. Keep a bottle of super glue on the bench. Closing that cut quickly and completely makes healing faster. Trust me
I went through a bunch of this advice and sharpening classes, wish someone told me to buy a Tormek, Katz should cover this, sharpening like this is a huge waste of time.
What’s the pad to buff the chisel you used at the beginning? Couldn’t understand what you were saying and quickly glanced over
Thanks for the great content as usual!
Time stamp?
Great tips, Jon, thanks!
When you say “use your hand as a …” are you saying “break” or “brake”? I could see either interpretation but I want to know what you intended.
Brake. Good question
Where is the PDF for the Katz Moses 2 in 1 sharpening jig? I bought one and I don’t see it in the links in this video, or the website underneath the 2 in 1 sharpening jig product page or even in the Plans sections on the website.
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Hey Jonathan, I’ve gone through almost all of your videos now, bought myself some narex richter chisels, will be buying your dovetail jig and a coping saw soon, but I was wondering where I could find that little brass hammer that you use? I just made my own Thor style hammer, but that little hammer looks like it won’t damage the richters. Thank you again for everything you have taught me!
It was a custom job. We have one coming out soon
Gotcha! Well I just made a huge order and got the ryoba, dovetail saw, apron, dovetail jig etc. really excited to start trying dovetails. Thank you again for everything!
I like to use my 1-2-3 blocks to guide my chisel. Always machined to 90* perfect.
That's a good idea I'm have to try that glad you posted that.
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I've heard that your ballot should be the same material as your chisel heads; i.e. wooden mallet for wooden handled chisels. True? Or is brass soft enough to not be a problem?
Screw drivers are also chisels too.
One thing I struggle with and on which no one seems to go over is: How do I get a good clean bottom on a mortise? Especially on small mortises. I get my sides clean and well, but the bottom is rather bumpy and I can't see a good way to get that clean other than scraping around with my chisel, which dulls them pretty fast and leaves by far not the best results.
Any advice on this? I'd be very thankful!
You should get to final depth with you router or router plane if you're a hand tools guy. If it's not a through mortise who cares? It could be ugly as all hell but no will ever see it again once you put glue in there
Let's gooooo
I had no idea chisels are supposed to be that sharp
"how often are you gonna be giving it more than half an inch deep, right"
We know exactly what you're talking about, Jonathan.
What I do not understand, is why the Japanese chisels do not have a secondary bevel like the western ones and what is the difference for best result. Thanks.
14:40 I noticed that you have a plaster around your finger... Most probably you cut your finger in the kitchen?... Just kidding, I'm a subscriber and I love your videos!!!... Shit happens, regardless how careful we are!... I agree, the sharper any cutting tool, the safer!... a Blunt cutting tool is dangerous since you need to use force in order to get the job done! 😉🖐️🍻👍👍👍