This weekend I revived my father’s cold chisel. Not a spectacular device, but amazingly useful.
A cold chisel is traditionally used by blacksmiths to cut into cold steel – mainly for cutting thick steel sheet.
(A “hot chisel” is used to cut iron and steel while still in the forge or soon after)
My father had used this for various projects over the years – he probably bought it some time in the 50’s or 60’s – and I recently came into possession of it. Banged up well and truly – mushroomed on the top, and dented at the cutting tip.
I used an angle grinder to remove the mushroomed top, and the bench grinder to shape the hardened tip.
Blue “hammered finish” paint was the best finish for this project as it hides the dents and scratches really well, as well as being a very traditional finish for tools like this.
Davo's Weekend Workshop 