Good information. I love how your chisels slice thru the wood with ease. There's sharp and then there's Matt Cremona sharp!

I end up making a lot of my own specialty chisels. Started because I was broke, kept doing it because I like them better. When regrinding chisels, keep an eye on the heat when you are removing a lot of material. You don't want to kill the temper. For making your own, you can pick up O-1 tool steel for pretty cheap and use a grinder to shape as needed. Harden and temper, sharpen and enjoy. Once you get a handle on things, it only takes an hour or two to make a chisel from the blank...which means you might find your chisel collection growing very fast as you decide to make task specific chisels more and more.

Thanks for a great tutorial. I will be attempting my first real dovetails on my wife's 9ft craft/sewing cabinet. Your videos always give me the courage to go to where I have never been before. 99% works (after a few mistakes). Thanks Greg

Between the crisp cuts on the dovetails and the sweet wooden chisels, I'm hungry now! Great explanations. This might explain a lot of the slop in beginner's dovetailing!

Matt, just as always a great informative video. Thanks for the information, Paul

Good stuff, as always. For the extreme inside corner of half blinds, I find a small carving knife really useful for severing the fibres and cleaning out that last little bit. An Xacto knife would do it too.

Great chisel tips, Matt. As a carver I never have a problem finding small chisels to use.

Excellent tutorial on various types of chisels.

Another great tutorial! Thanks

Great video Matt,I have been trying to build up my confidence to do some dovetails!

Tons of great info, Matt! Thanks for sharing.

Great information Matt! I might have to grind down the older big box store chisels I have for this purpose.

Nice explanation and demo of this subject. Thanks for taking the time!

Left hand and right hand carvers skew chisels . They are thin bodied and quick to re sharpen . Mine are old addis chisels. A good cabinetmaker saws right on the line when he has marked his pins so that saves time trimming and fitting .

Thank you for sharing this valuable information.

I think a carving skew will work to get in to the inside corners. Thank you!

Great ideas and information. Thanks Matt.

Keep up the great work!!

Well put Matt...this video is a keeper. Can't wait to make a Fish Tail chisels.

Excellent information and video Matt. Thanks.

Thank you

Great video!

Glad to see I'm not the only one who "gets by" with small chisels instead of fishtail/skew chisels for half blinds. Are the "round back" chisels actually supposed to be paring chisels, or what was their "intended" role? I'm a big fan of my Ashley Iles chisels, I have and use the bevel edge chisels.

good info as always - it has been a long process but I am expanding my chisel arsenal slowly but surely

Matthew Cremona I have never cut a dovetail yet. I watch you do it and it really soothes my OCD. Amazing work...lol

Quality video right there. Well done.

Modifying chisels is a great idea! I hadn't thought of that.

thanks

Excelente información, gracias por compartir. Soy nuevo en esto y me gusta tu trabajo

Nice job Matt. Now I'm waiting for a video tutorial explaining new diaper changing techniques. :)

Thank you for this information Matt!!! I think I will tackle my hubbies chisels to change the angles on them :) As always you make it look so easy.

I love my Ashley Iles ELLIPTICAL DOVETAIL chisels . None better .

I now understand how handy the smaller chisels can be. Thanks for the up close demo on the the half blind dovetails. Why the thin or small pins other then asthetics? Is there an advantage to smaller pins on dovetails?

I just got my father's old chisels! I can't wait to crack them open and play with them, twenty years later.

***** haha! Getting by is good enough for me. The round back chisels are intended for dovetailing.

thank you Matthew. good to see the family growing congratz. question please what is a quiet air compressor ??? what the brand, type please

good stuff matt! grinding a chisel is a good idea and money saver i bet. are there different sized specialty chisels for the different angled dovetails (1:6 1:8)? idk if that made sense..lol

Time to go grind a fish tail into one of my chisels....This is gonna be fun!

I don't have a hand cut dovetail journey, but it was interesting. ;)

Silly newbie question: Why not make the space between the tails a little bigger so that expensive or modified chisels aren't necessary?

Off topic, but a technical question: Are you using a wireless mic system? Perhaps the Azden or Audio Technica? Your audio sounds great! Thanks.

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Do you know of any comparison tests between Blue Spruce and Lie-Nielsen chisels?

Dear Santa, please watch Matt's video and gimme :) for those skew chisels could you use a turning skew or would the bevels on both sides be a problem ?

Hey Matt, any thoughts on the Iyoroi Blue Steel Umeki-Oire Nomi chisels? Those are from the same site that the Ashley's are in. I've been waiting on the Ashley Round backs but they have been out of stock on the ones I need and they say they don't know when they'll get them. They have all the ones I want on the Iyoroi Blue Steel. Anyway, just wondering what your thoughts on those are. Can't really find a good review on them. Thanks man.

would cutting a bit of the corner of the dowetail to make it fit in the half blind socket with out super sharp inside corners be considered cheating? ;) it would inside the joint it'll be hidden once assembled

Where do I pick up those sweet wooden chisels

who is Ron?

Lie Nielsen fishtail chisel