Pros & Cons
Pros
Chisels come in a storage box and have protective covers on the edges. They are sharp out of the box but need some fine-tuning. Sharpens great and balanced great.
Highlights
Quality
Nice sharp tools helped me to get the job done without too much trauma
Good set the backs were nearly 100 flat so didnt need more than 30 minutes work each to bring them inline on diamond plates
From here i will likely just accrue random high quality chisels here and there over the years
Screws fell out of the hinges and were missing
Price
Time will tell if that holds true but for the price these represent very good value for money and the wooden case is a lovely bonus
Shipping
Arrived promptly and well packaged in marples wooden box
Packaging/appearance
These irvin marples chisels are of high quality and come packaged in a wooden storage box that holds them securely although in ... Read More
Had looked everywhere for a chisel set that came in the nice wooden box as a gift
The box had to be repaired that they came in
These chisels come in a storage box and have protective covers on the edges
Overview
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Helpful InsightsBETA
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
They are sharp out of the box but need some finetuning
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
The box had to be repaired that they came in
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Screws fell out of the hinges and were missing
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Could do with a 1 34 or 2 chisel as well and it would have been excellent
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I decided to buy another larger old ward chisel separately for bigger mortices like sash locks and for hinges
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I checked the bevels with my starrett and they all came at about 2324° out of the box
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
So i used my shapton ceramic stone to grind a secondary bevel of 23° more then i finished on a strop at super fine grit for a very small tertiary bevel
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
The first chisel i tried to sharpen took a gouge out of my ceramic stone due to a burr from the factory machining process