A corner chisel is a woodworking tool built to cut sharp internal corners, most often to finish out a mortise or a hinge rebate after a router or a drill has already removed the bulk of the waste, since both of those methods leave rounded corners a corner chisel is then needed to square off. Its function parallels the square mortising chisel used on a dedicated mortising machine, applied instead as a hand tool.
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OriginDescended from the wheelwright's and millwright's V-shaped bruzz chisel, used to hollow out mortises in wheels and wooden beams 1 Connections
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1. Special Purpose Chisels (Classic Hand Tools)
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The origins of this tool are from wheelwrights and millwrights who used a v shaped chisel to hollow out mortises in wheels and wooden beams
Corner chisel (Wikipedia)
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A corner chisel is a tool for cutting sharp internal corners in wood, often used for mortise joints or hinge rebates.
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A corner chisel is a tool for cutting sharp internal corners in wood, often used for mortise joints or hinge rebates.
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