Chisel types and uses! Take a close look at how to select chisels for stonework!
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- Опубликовано: 8 апр 2022
- There are many types of chisels out there, but these are the three that I use the most. Pointed, tracer, and pitching tools to work very hard natural stone into shape.
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For details on these specific chisels check out www.miconproducts.com
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carbide made such a huge difference to stonework - i carve in ancient reclaimed sandstone - old houses fell down into the sea!!! love all my carbide tipped tools but still find my all steel pitcher gives me the best results - it was jst a commercial cheepo but does the bizz!! those tools in the vid look really great!!😊😊😊
I'm just getting into working with stones (back patio with rundle flagstone) and your videos are really getting me interested in how to work with stone. There are a lot of videos around how to make things work but your videos are really next level. Thanks for taking the time to make these
That last one you showed is the most handy to own if your on a budget and can only afford one to start of with, all these chisels are much harder to use then showed in this video, the thicc boy just breaks stone off so easily compared to the other ones if your just starting off and finding it difficult
Love it thank you!
Great video!
Thank you for this video. I was just mudlarking in the Thames river and found what a friend was sure is a small pitching chisel. After seeing your video, I feel confident that is what it is. I will be submitting this to a Finds Liaison Officer to see if they want to record it for the British Museum.
Whoa that is SO COOL!!! I’d love to see a pic of that.
@@HardscapeCanada It could be as old as 2000+ years old but I suspect it is a bit newer than that. My guess would be 1000 years to a mere couple of centuries.
Great video. Hopefully I will be able to locate a supplier out here on The Rock!
I use whatever I can find at yard sales for typically about 25 cents a pop. Use, them, sharpen them when needed, throw them away. I have buckets of them, every size shape you name it. I have 1 carbide chisel and I never touch it, I like the old steel ones.
For tracing very thick stones, is a wider or narrower tracing chisel better?
Hey Kevin! Do you recommend using gloves and if so what type? Thanks in advance....
Hey yes absolutely, my favourite are nitrile ones from Watson called Blackhawk. They are black with grey nitrile on the palms
@@HardscapeCanada Thank you very much my friend!!1
What about the drill chisel?
What chisel should I use for strip stone wall. Some pieces are slightly larger than others and I need to take a little off. Thanks
I would suggest any of the tracers, sounds like the square edge one is your best bet. You can check them all out here: www.miconproducts.com
What weight round hammer do you use ? Thank you.
I find 2.5 Lbs ideal for long term use
Thank you.
What tool do you hit these with?
A 2lb club hammer! Size up or down depending on your size/ strength
Hey Kevin, what are your thoughts on the masonry chisels from Home Depot /Rona? I’m looking to do some stone work in my backyard that I’d love to try on my own. Would you say Irwin or Stanley will work well? No carbide tips.
Hey I think a standard cold chisel will work fine to begin with, if you are going to do a lot of it then a carbide chisel will certainly make your life a lot easier!
Depends on the type of stone you will use too!
@@HardscapeCanada I thought cold chisels are for metal. Obviously I know nothing. Do you have any recommendations for budget carbide-tipped chisels? Or good big box chisels. I’m in Canada, if that helps.
To answer your other reply, the rock is field stone from around the neighborhood which I think is a gray limestone and some other beige stone which I believe is not quite as heavy.
What’s a recommendation for I don’t know the best one for stone
What kind of stone? For walls or patios?
Stone masonry is an entirely new thing to me, but I'm going to attempt a DIY patio of cleft Pennsylvania Bluestone (sandstone), cutting the stones to size with a Rebit tracer and fettling the edges with a pitching chisel. What is the appropriate grinding wheel material to choose for sharpening the Rebit tungsten carbide tracer chisel?
Hey I’ve had my chisels for years and haven’t sharpened them, and they work great still. I’m not 100% sure but I believe you can take them back to where you bought them (Micon tools in Vancouver?) and they will sharpen and send them back to you
@@HardscapeCanada Thanks for that info. I had no idea how often they had to be sharpened. I thought they might need it even during the project!
When needed, just keep touching them up as you work with a few strokes on one of the cheap chinese diamond plates [3 to 5 dollars each]
Get them sharp then keep them sharp
We've got a concrete drive an inch higher than the sidewalk. When you drive over the sidewalk there is a real bump to get up onto the concrete. I want to cut off the 90° edge of the concrete to give it a gentler 45° bevelled edge. Can that be done by chiselling at 45°, or would every blow simply cut vertically down, which would leave us with the same one inch bump?
Hey, chiselling would work but would leave a really rough edge as concrete doesn’t take to chiselling very well. You could also shave it down with a grinder and diamond cupping wheel for a smooth finish, but would be a lot of work. Or see what your local rental store has for you.
@@HardscapeCanada Thank you HardscapeCanada, your thoughts are very helpful. I know next to nothing about this kind of work.