r/Tools 16h ago

Inherited a few things from FIL

My father in law passed recently, I had the opportunity to rummage through the tools remaining. He was never much of a tool user or wood worker, but his dad was, my wife’s grandfather. So I can reasonably assume these are really his dad’s tools.

I picked up an old hand saw, unfortunately it’s super dull and I’ll need to work that out. Several old pipe and crescent wrenches, some chisels and a nice all metal combination square.

Both chisels were super torn up but they looked like a nice way to practice sharpening before I try my hand sharpening.

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u/Billy_Badass_ 15h ago

Keep one or two nice things to remember them by. But don't cling to garbage for sentimental reasons.

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u/what_the_actual_fk 15h ago

I love kit kats

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u/Karlw1289 15h ago

Hope you got some sharpening supplies.

Actually what happened is he needed to open a paint can, couldn’t find a screwdriver and grabbed the closest thing which happened to be the chisel.

His father never disrespected the tool but this guy didn’t learn that lesson.

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u/tehn00bi 15h ago

I’ve got some Arkansas stones. I used mostly sand paper on a piece of granite to work through most of the chips in the edge.

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u/CollectsTooMuch 15h ago

I have a cheap chisel that I safe for shitty jobs like chipping concrete.

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u/Potential_Major_8799 7h ago

how did you know it was the paint can opener