Sorby Registered firmer chisels The Registered (or Shipwrights) firmer chisel refers to a chisel with straight sides, thick body, round neck bolster, and a leather shock washer. The ash handle has iron ferrules and iron hoops to prevent mushrooming. Used primarily for timber framing, they are somewhat less sturdy than a mortising chisel, but work pretty well for that purpose.
These Sorby bench chisels have beveled sides, octagonal boxwood handles, leather shock washers, brass ferrules, and brass hoops to prevent mushrooming.
My standard mortising chisels are also Sorby made with boxwood handles, a leather shock washer, and a thick body.
Marples boxwood handled beveled bench chisels These general purpose bench chisels have beveled sides, bolster with tang construction, and boxwood handles.
Wyeth socket handled
chisels Wyeth Hardware was a general
mercantile company in St. Joseph, Missouri. In the latter
1800's and early 1900's they supplied farmers and ranchers of
the central and western plains with tools and hardware, much
like Sears Roebuck. Also, like Sears, they put their name on
tools manufactured by existing suppliers of that era. (Thanks
to Peter Shull for the Wyeth history)
I don't know who made the Wyeth chisels but they are the best steel I have ever sharpened and used. The chisels take a keen edge and are very tough. The socket handles are made of ash with leather washers on the end to absorb shock. Most of the Wyeth chisels in my assortment have beveled sides and I have sharpened them to a low angle to use as paring chisels. I own several other socket chisels but the Wyeth are my favorites.
Stanley plastic handled chisels The ubiquitous, found at every garage sale, plastic handled carpenter's butt chisel.
Miscellaneous chisels include a timber framer's corner chisel, Crown skew chisels, and a Marples cranked neck paring chisel.
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