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   Sardog | Jan 27, 2006 02:33am | #1

   Rod

   Soak the chisel (Not the wood handle) in lacquer thinner overnite.

   A tight bottle works good with something around the top to prevent evaporation.

   The coating will either dissolve or slough off by morning.

   Don't try the stone route till you remove the coating, it will clog up your stones.

   Jeff

    

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   rod | Jan 31, 2006 06:40am | #7

   I put the chisels in acetone for about 2 hours and they were free of the coating. So thanks for the tip. Maybe a shorter time would have worked just as well. I never thought of using a card scraper. Now the backs need to be flatened. The first one shows that it wont take too much time to do. Thanks for all the replies.Rod

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   Kleck | Jan 27, 2006 05:12am | #2

   as Jeff said, remove the coating. If you don't it makes a mess on a DMT stone, too. DAMHIKT.

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   EdHarrison | Jan 28, 2006 02:42am | #3

   I agree with SARDog but my experience with two cherries (11 chisels, 4 carving tools) is that the lacquer comes off in about 2 minutes when dipped in lacquer thinner.  I remove the lacquer from both the wood handle and the steel shank.  I finish the wood handles with BLO and wax.  The sticker on the handle is FOD (Foreign Object and Debris - i.e., trash, not saved). Good luck, Ed

    

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   tcbaldmtn | Jan 30, 2006 11:08pm | #4

   I just use a card scraper to take off the coating it only takes a couple of seconds.

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   EdHarrison | Jan 30, 2006 11:46pm | #5

   I like to call up my ex and just sort of casually drop the news that I just bought a corvette and now have a 22 year old girlfriend, while at the same time asking her if she's going to qualify for Earned Income Credit on her tax return this year.  Then I just wrap the chisels and the phone receiver together up in a towel, wait a few minutes, unwrap them, and the coating is just blistered off with very little effort on my part.   

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   John_D | Jan 31, 2006 02:00am | #6

   Is it cold in here, or is it just you?  <g>My goal is for my work to outlast me.  Expect my joinery to get simpler as time goes by.

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   DCarr10760 | Jan 31, 2006 02:23pm | #8

   Wow, that's a great idea!  But you have to be careful,  if your ex is anything like mine, besides taking off the laquer, the handles would be carbonized and the tool steel would be annealed!

   David