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Stone Carving Chisels: Mallet-Headed Plain and Tooth Chisels and Points for Soft Stone (Holford, 1907)

H. Holford · Public domain

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4. نوفمبر 2026

Stone Carving Chisels: Mallet-Headed Plain and Tooth Chisels and Points for Soft Stone (Holford, 1907)

Soft stone such as limestone and sandstone is cut with chisels struck by a wooden mallet, so their heads are broad and a little rounded. H. Holford's 20th Century Toolsmith and Steelworker (1907) shows a set: plain chisels, tooth chisels with a row of sharp teeth, and points, forged from 3/4 inch octagon steel of 75 points carbon and tempered a very pale blue. He gives no lengths, widths or tooth spacing; those are unknown here. The brine bath is from his chapter on the hardening bath. Source: H. Holford (1907), pp. 21, 131-133, 140-141. Picture: his Fig. 71.

متوسط

A day for a set

التعليمات

Read Holford

"In cutting soft stone of any description wooden mallets are used, consequently the heads of the tools are made broad and a little rounding, so as not to cut or bruise the mallet."

Forge the mallet heads

Use 3/4 inch octagon steel of 75 points carbon. For each tool, upset the head end a little, fuller it in, draw it out, then swage it to its broad, slightly rounded shape between top and bottom swages (Fig. 78). For a narrow chisel, forge the head first; for a wide one, forge the cutting end first. Sizes are not given (unknown).

المواد لهذه الخطوة:

قضيب مثمّن من فولاذ العدد1 3/4 in octagon

الأدوات المطلوبة:

كور الحدادة

سندان

مطرقة الحداد

مِزلجة

فولر (حديد شقّ الأخاديد)

قالبا السحب العلوي والسفلي

كمّاشة الحداد

أبعاد غير معروفة

نظارات أمان

قفّازات مقاومة للحرارة

Forge the chisels and points

For a wide chisel, upset the end to the width of the chisel before drawing it down to a thin cutting edge. Hammer the flat surfaces. Draw the points down to almost a square point (Fig. 72). For tooth chisels, punch the teeth into the edge in a punch machine after the flat surfaces have been hammered, then file each tooth to an extremely sharp point.

الأدوات المطلوبة:

كور الحدادة

سندان

مطرقة الحداد

كمّاشة الحداد

مكبس تخريم

مبرد ناعم

Harden the chisels

Heat the cutting edge very evenly along its whole length and dip it at least one inch into the hardening bath (clean water, best as a strong brine, kept large and cold). Polish it bright by rubbing it across a board spread with fine clean sand near the forge, and draw the temper to a very pale blue, the right temper for all limestone tools.

الأدوات المطلوبة:

كور الحدادة

محلول ملحي مشبع

لوح

رمل ناعم

كمّاشة الحداد

قفّازات مقاومة للحرارة

Harden the points

Dip the points deep into the bath. Draw the temper so it shows at least 5/8 inch back from the point; if it runs so fast that only the very tip is tempered, the point bends and breaks easily.

الأدوات المطلوبة:

كور الحدادة

محلول ملحي مشبع

لوح

رمل ناعم

كمّاشة الحداد

قفّازات مقاومة للحرارة

History and honest limits

Holford sets the soft-stone tools apart from those for granite and marble: soft stone takes wooden mallets, hence the broad heads, and a very pale blue temper. The finest stone carvers' tools, struck only lightly, he hardens without drawing any temper at all. He gives no lengths, widths or tooth spacing; the tools used to make them are ours.