Matt Estlea
Published on 26 May 2018Chiselling is one of those things that looks easy at first glance, yet as soon as you have a go with one your work looks like roadkill.
In this video, I’ll be sharing certain tricks, tips and techniques to help make your chiselling more accurate, cleaner and enjoyable.
Best of luck and feel free to share any of your own tips in the comment section below!
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_________________________________________________________________My name is Matt Estlea, I’m a 22 year old Woodworker from Basingstoke in England and my aim is to make your woodworking less s***.
I come from 5 years tuition at Rycotewood Furniture Centre and 4 years experience working at Axminster Tools and Machinery where I still currently work on weekends. During the week, I film woodworking projects, tutorials, reviews and a viewer favourite ‘Tool Duel’ where I compare two cometitive manufacturers tools against one another to find out which is best.
I like to have a laugh and my videos are quite fast paced BUT you will learn a lot, I assure you.
Lets go make a mess.
From the comments:
Matt Estlea
1 year agoUPDATE
Watch your fingers on the sides of the chisel if you’re going for the pencil grip, they can sometimes be sharp. Firstly, this isn’t a bad thing; in fact its quite useful! Watch this video to see why: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9S6r104pQk
But if you do find you are cutting yourself, try one of these three things:
1: Loosen your grip. No need for a death grip here. Hold it with the same pressure as you would with a pencil.
2: Run a bit of 400 grit sandpaper up the edge of the chisel ONCE. Don’t go back and forth with it, one stroke will be enough to take the edge off.
3: Keep in mind that every time you cut yourself the skin toughens up. So if all else fails, keep battling through it!
