Sharpening your chisel before its first use, meanwhile, can give you cleaner and more precise cuts with minimal effort. A properly honed edge also provides better control.

Chisels are an ideal tool on which to begin your sharpening education, especially if you have some that are really beat up, such as those purchased at a flea market.

Sharpening Chisels . Both new and used chisels need to be sharpened in order for them to work properly. This primer provides a thorough run-through of one way to sharpen chisels using a grinder, ...

A bench grinder is all you need to turn rusty old hardened-steel tools, like cold chisels and punches, into useable workhorses. By Roy Berendsohn and David Agrell Published: Oct 14, 2013 7:00 AM EDT ...

The next time one of your cold chisels gets dull, don’t sharpen it. Take it to the grinder and square off the damaged end. Years ago I had an old chisel that slowly kept getting more and more ...