Marples Firmer Chisel Review By: I.Ball
Category: Old Firmer Chisels
Manufacturer: Marples
Tool Type: Firmer Chisels
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This William Marples Boxwood Firmer Chisels Review covers a range
of popular and successful firmer chisels made by William Marples / Marples
over a lengthy period in the 20th century.
The Marples chisels were made to the standard format of traditional
chisels with best quality cast steel blades, brass ferrules and hardwood
handles, boxwood in this case.
There were two types of Marples firmer chisels produced in this style,
one is just referred to as 'Marples firmer chisels', the other is the
'Marples bevel edge firmer chisels' which are often referred to just
'Marples bevel edge chisels'.
Boxwood handles are usually considered the best chisel handles due to
the boxwood being very strong and as such they are very hard to damage.
The handles have had a few different logos on them over the years including the
famous Marples transfer printed logo; this particular logo consisted of 'Marples,
Sheffield, England' along with the Marples Shamrock logo.
Marples produced a whole range of various types of chisels including paring
chisels, firmer gouges, paring gouges, cranked chisels, and other specialist chisels.
The William Marples / Marples brand of tools which this review refers to were made
in the 20th century; I need to confirm the dates but very, very roughly I reckon 1920's - 1970's.
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