The workbench drawers have most of my hand tools. Here's the chisels:
The wooden handled ones are Sorby Mortise chisels, and the blue ones
are good old Marples. I really am not that impressed with the Marples.
The edges seem pretty fragile and don't hold up long. I'm thinking
a few key Japanese chisels might be a good investment since I'm always
sharpening or grinding out the edges on the Marples, even though they never
see rough wood that can have grit in it.
Here's the measuring and marking drawer. The marking and bevel
gauges are missing from this shot.
I made a bunch of tool holders to keep things from banging around.
The handplane assortment...
What would I still like to get? A scrub plane, as mentioned,
and a No. 6 are the two that come to mind immediately. A No. 6 would
be nice for face jointing a board. I have the 7 set for a very fine
cut and don't want to change it to flatten the face of a board (the cut
is so light it takes forever to face joint a scrubbed board). It
would be nice to have another plane to fill that role, and if it were lighter
it would help, too: Thus a No. 6. A better rabbet plane (a 93?) and
L-N's small scraper plane would be two more handy items to have down the
road.
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