Object number
51/349
Collection
Description
This mortising chisel, used for cutting mortices to create joints in wood, has an octagonal handle and a sharply bevelled blade. The flattened end of the handle shows that it was used with a mallet. It was used at R. Middleton & Sons' wheelwrights workshop in Eddington, Hungerford.
Physical description
1 chisel: iron blade; wooden handle
Archival history
MERL 'Catalogue index' card – 'This mortising chisel was used at the Middleton’s wheelwrights shop at Eddington (Berks). // The octagonal handle is fitted into the tubular shaft of the blade. The end of the handle which is slightly flattened by a mallet is 1.3 inches wide. It is 1.1 inches wide at the joint with the shaft and 6 inches long. The shaft is 3.5 inches long and narrows to a neck immediately above the blade. The blade is 4 inches long, .7 inches wide and .5 – .35 inches deep, being narrower towards the bevel than at the neck. The blade is sharply bevelled to a slightly curved edge. // See 51/363.'
Production date
1860-01-01 - 1869-12-31
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