Using a wood chisel
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How?
Please explain
Please explain
Still drinking from last night or just started again?
It would be shoved up their rectum
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Wouldn't that also be improper use of a wood chisel?
I see your point, but then they would see mine (or more properly the chisel's)
Obviously, they didn't apply a mist coat.
Andy
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If course that's improper use of a wood chisel. Any decorator knows that high quality wood chisels are actually designed to open metal paint tins. 
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Have you any idea how annoying it was, back in the days before diamond honing stones and the like, and when we actually used chisels a lot more (partly because they were yet to invent the multitool and routers were mega expensive), to come back to your toolkit and find that someone had borrowed your prize, freshly sharpened and honed 2in chisel to open a paint can - and returned it with a wrecked edge? It could take you 30 or 40 minutes work on a coarse stone to grind the chip(s) out before you even started grinding and honing proper
If course that's improper use of a wood chisel. Any decorator knows that high quality wood chisels are actually designed to open metal paint tins.
I once employed a fellow decorator who used one of my filling knives as a scraper. I was so peed off. It took me days to sand back the dent free sharp edge. My filling knives are as sharp as a "stanley blade".
That said, until recently, I had a really bad habit of using my belt sander to sharpen my chisels. I now use a Record wet wheel to sharpen them... https://www.recordpower.co.uk/product/10-wet-stone-sharpening-system-package-deal
I wish I had purchased one years ago. It is so much easier to get a decent finish with a sharp chisel. And yes, from time to time I use them to remove high spots in paint.
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These days I use a Sorby ProEdge belt grinder which makes the job a lot easier a switch less chance of drawing the temper.
I know what you mean about stopping knives, though. Whilst I don't use them that much I'm lothe to let others use mine because they invariably come back covered in gobs of rock hard two pack and with the odd dent or two in the edge as well (gawd knows why, using them to open cans or as a screwdriver, perhaps?). It's all just a bit pointless trying to explain to some spotty herbert that to even buy a potentially good 'un you have to persuade the shopkeeper to let you go through the box until you find the one with just the right amount of flex in it - and that to fettle it you need to hone off the square edges and round the corners off before setting it to work - where after a year or two in use it'll probably be a belter. Until it gets so thin that the blade cracks, and you start all over again
I know what you mean about stopping knives, though. Whilst I don't use them that much I'm lothe to let others use mine because they invariably come back covered in gobs of rock hard two pack and with the odd dent or two in the edge as well (gawd knows why, using them to open cans or as a screwdriver, perhaps?). It's all just a bit pointless trying to explain to some spotty herbert that to even buy a potentially good 'un you have to persuade the shopkeeper to let you go through the box until you find the one with just the right amount of flex in it - and that to fettle it you need to hone off the square edges and round the corners off before setting it to work - where after a year or two in use it'll probably be a belter. Until it gets so thin that the blade cracks, and you start all over again
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Yes and that.
I don't know how many time - the same person, I've had to explain the difference between a scraper and a filling knife .... "But they look the same" comes the reply
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