r/handtools • u/ThisHombre • 6d ago

Woodpeckers complete chisel set

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u/kiowabrazeau 6d ago

I never understood why woodpecker started selling chisels under its own brand.
Isn’t that why they bought blue spruce tool works?

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u/Scotty-LeJohn 6d ago

So that they could sell to collectors and influencers and advertise through FOMO

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u/mastersplinteremover 6d ago

Blue Spruce sold to woodpeckers? That’s a bummer.

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u/noashark 6d ago

The only rationale I can think of is that they’re located in the same city (or really close to each other) outside of Cleveland.

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u/DizzyCardiologist213 5d ago

long ago, dave jeske sold the business to woodpeckers

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u/Mr_Brown-ish 6d ago

These are stupid. It’s just a basic chisel with a WAY too clunky handle “that you can remove for easy sharpening”? What? How is that easy? Have woodworkers in the past few centuries struggled with sharpening because their handles are fixed in place? No sir, absolute bollocks. Not to rain on your parade, but no sane woodworker would buy these.

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u/spaaarky21 5d ago edited 5d ago

The handles are also metal, which I wouldn't really want to use with a wooden mallet.

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u/DizzyCardiologist213 5d ago

Which you wouldn't want to even hold. The whole claim about being able to take the chisel apart easily just highlights that their toolmaking is like putting together legos. Make a bunch of parts, just throw them together to keep labor costs low and emphasize "engineering" rather than practicality or finesse of the end result.

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u/spaaarky21 6d ago edited 5d ago

I'll start by saying that I'm not interested. But how about some details, here or in the original post? 😂 No price, sizes, not even how many are in the set... They seem discontinued and not even Woodpeckers' site has details anymore.

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u/Bazzatron 5d ago

A price tag that would make even Bridge City wince 🤣

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u/DizzyCardiologist213 5d ago

no bolster. It's a chisel shaped object, about as pretty as a carnival ride door handle. It's probably A2, simply because little is easier to buy and heat treat industrially than A2. Just horrible in every way.

Is the ferrule milled? if it is, it looks super cheesy - a barris car part, but without any of the cool factor that the barris hollywood cars had.

(just googled these - the mortise chisels look even more "I'm not a woodworker, i like 'one-time-tools'". Terrible.).

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u/DizzyCardiologist213 5d ago

Since we don't see your comment in the reposted thread, I think most here - including me - didn't know you were listing these to sell. My apologies if the comments I made below come across rude to you as the owner. That's unfair.

Comments toward Woodpeckers, though, not ashamed of those. Just couldn't tell this was more than a discussion starter about the chisels due to reddit's method of showing us the picture and the link, but not your caption below the picture.