Description

CARP starter set of chisels

This small set of chisels are great to start with. Ideal for making pens. Or other small work. The chisel set is made of top HSS M2, the handles are European beech. The set contains a 28 mm roughing gouge, a flat chisel, a parting tool and a 10 mm spindle gouge.

Handle

A handle for a woodturning tool is sometimes long and sometimes short. Depending on the function of the chisel. A scale gouge or roughing gouge needs a long handle, a profile gouge needs to be manoeuvrable and so a short handle is useful. Furthermore, it is useful to easily recognise the handles when they are hanging in the rack.

CARP chisels

Carp’s chisels are made of hardened HSS M2 steel. They are forged and/or milled, then hardened to 63-64 HRC, then ground and polished.

Harden

How good a chisel is depends largely on the hardness and toughness of the steel. So a lot of attention is given to hardening chisels. This is a lengthy process. It starts with heating the steel. This is done in absolute vacuum. Then the chisels are hardened in 3 steps, before undergoing another process of heating and cooling. Here, temperatures of up to -185 degrees are reached (in liquid nitrogen). Quality is strictly monitored. Between 5 and 10% of each batch of chisels is tested for hardness and toughness.