I recently sharpened some chisels and was about to put them in a box with other tools for transport when it occurred to me that shaking them around with the other tools was likely to damage the sharp edges I'd just created.
I came up with a quick solution. This is so easy and simple that I nearly didn't post it but I hadn't seen it before so maybe others haven't.
For these pictures I took a chisel from the pile on the shelf - these are my chisels that suffer varying degrees of abuse depending on the job. I also have sharp ones somewhere else.
Here's the pile of chisels, one with a moulded plastic edge protector.
Here's an old handbag.
I cut two scraps from the handbag.
I stapled them together.
I closed the staples up with a hammer and trimmed the edges to tidy it up a bit.
I also squirted a bit of oil in to try and inhibit rust. As long as the leather is not too thin and the pocket not too wide the chisel doesn't reach the staples at the bottom so they don't touch the cutting edge.
Russell
