Hyde Tools 02400 3" Stiff Black & Silver® Chisel Scraper

fist for power over a broad field; index finger down the spine when you're shaving residue and want the bevel controlled. Angle: low — 15–30°; the edge shears, it does not chisel in. Bevel awareness: this is a single-bevel tool, so which way you turn it matters — bevel down to slip under a coating, flat-back down to shave flat. Edge care: dress the chisel edge square and keen on a mill file when it dents or rolls; a chisel lives or dies by its edge, more than a square blade does. Steel: carbon hones keener and holds it on dry work, but wipe it dry after any wet or solvent job — leave stripper sludge on it overnight and it blooms rust. That single maintenance fact is the entire reason the stainless 01440 exists.