Welcome, Par.

And Marv wrote:
> You could keep keep a eye out for Swedish chisels manufactured by
Eskilstuna
makers such as E.A.Berg and Jernboulaget.

I just have one Berg chisel that I ground to use as a skew, but it's great
-- if a judgment based on one tool means anything.

I just have to add that I also went down the Japanese tool path for a
while. Had a few chisels, saws, etc. And though I wouldn't give up my
dovetail dozuki saw for anything, I sold my japanese chisels and have
drifted back to western-style ones. Some japanese chisels are truly things
of beauty, and the steel seems very fine. But I couldn't justify the cost
-- the good ones are so expensive. I also came across a few that weren't
quite straight, and had a mortise chisel that had a parallelogram-shaped
cross section rather than rectangular, causing it to twist as you chopped
down into the mortise. Considering, this was not an inexpensive tool, I
wasn't too happy.

Moreover, Japanese chisel are usually metric, which isn't handy here in
the U.S., though I suppose in Sweden that might be better than old
American or English chisels in inches.

-- Bob in Eugene

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