Beautiful Boxed set of 5 Narex Richter Bevel Edged Chisels with a versatile ambidextrous Narex Marking Knife worth £22 included.
The set of 5 includes:
6mm (¼")
10mm ( ⅜")
13mm ( ½")
19mm (¾")
25mm (1")
Made from a new type of steel alloyed with chromium for hardenability and vanadium for grain reduction and enhanced toughness, the steel is heat treated using a cryogenic process to maximise the formation of the desirable martensite crystalline microstructure in the finished steel.
In use, the new Narex steel has slightly less stone drag than Narex's familiar CrMn (which is one of the nicest of all steels to sharpen) so it's pretty close to O1 and PMV11 for ease of sharpening. Edge taking is up there with the very best of them - to the extent that going through the extra grades really pays dividends. But the biggest change is absolutely astonishing edge retention, this stuff takes absolutely ages to show even the slightest hint of dulling and can be brought back to mouth-watering sharpness in moments.
The fine grinding is so good it's almost a mirror finish - on all surfaces, there is no undesirable rounding off of the underside of the edges. The backs of the chisels are almost optically flat, so for the first time ever I would recommend doing nothing to them in preparation and maintenance, just wipe off the wire edge on a soft strop. The edges are as fine as hand ground chisels, barely there at all, making them suitable for the finest precision joinery.
The chisels are fitted with traditional pattern handles made from ash for lightness and strength, extremely smoothly finished and secured with a split-proof ground steel ferrule bearing the Richter logo and smartly trimmed with a thin leather bolster. The chisels are supplied in a beautiful presentation gift box and lightly coated with corrosion inhibiting oil to ensure that they reach you in perfect condition.
Approximate measurements:
Size
Overall Length
Handle Length
Useable Blade Length
SKU
6mm (¼")
254mm (10")
133mm (5¼")
85mm (3⅜")
815007
10mm (⅜")
257mm (10⅛")
133mm (5¼")
89mm (3½")
815009
13mm (½")
260mm (10¼")
133mm (5¼")
89mm (3½")
815013
19mm (¾")
269mm (10½")
133mm (5¼")
100mm (4")
815019
25mm (1")
275mm (10¾")
133mm (5¼")
100mm (4")
815025
Plus an ambidextrous spear point marking knife from Narex made from high carbon manganese vanadium steel for increased toughness to cope with the shallow intersecting bevel angles.
Supplied honed and ready to use, with a turned, stained and varnished hornbeam handle, and brass ferrule.
A marking knife produces a definite registration mark that can be felt with the tip of a chisel when making the final paring cut or seen when planing to thickness.
Overall length: 170mm
Blade length: 38mm
Blade thickness: 3mm
Isothermally hardened to RC61
