Where are you physically?
Summer is here and there will be tool meets across the country.
Chisels such as these can be obtained by the wheelbarrow at any tool meet.
Or rather chisels very much like this.
Single gouges too. People collect sets in mint condition and matching sets bring high dollars, but single orphans especially in the "even sizes" and not shiny mint? Often go cheap.
Check the events calendar.
http://mwtca.org/http://www.eaiainfo.org/ The roll will have to be made, it looks like. It doesn't look like any of the standard patterns still being made and finding another just like it will be hard. There are plenty of patterns of chisel roll available just not this exact, looks like an Army pattern maybe?
If you wanted faithful replicas of the handles, those might need to be made too.
There are lots and plenty of otherwise suitable leather capped handles, but maybe not exact copies?
I am not understanding.
To my eye the only chisel you are going to have any trouble at all replacing is the super long 1" chisel. The rest, in this condition, seem common as dishwater.
The top chisel in your pic I would call a socket paring chisel. It appears to have the mini bevels along the sides common in this pattern. It does look like 7" of usable blade.
Next is a standard beveled bench chisel. 5" of blade
Next, bench or firmer chisel. 4" of usable blade remaining would be no trouble in a 2" chisel
And last, a true framing chisel. The harder one to get.
Underhill and others made chisels this long in this width, but the sockets are bigger and the blade much thicker. Shipwright chisels with beer mug sockets, they are often called. This one looks like a framer alright. But 1" framers are less common than wider framers.
I guess am still unsure of the request here.
Was there something extra special about these particular chisels I am missing?
Seems like most could have been rounded up in a trip to any good swap meet and a casual circuit perusal of the antique shops in the area, last weekend.
You'd have been done by now? They might have gouged you on the price some, but you'd have them.
yours Scott
