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Flea Market Chisel
Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2015 9:05 pm
by escalador.evan
Picked this chisel up last winter at a flea market and its a great chisel. The Kanji is pretty hard to read, good luck!
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Re: Flea Market Chisel
Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2015 9:45 am
by Chris Hall
Took the liberty of resizing the picture. Please keep pictures to 1000 pixels wide at most.
A bit difficult to read, not at all sure I am identifying the characters correctly.
The top two are '登録', meaning '(trademark) registered'. 100% certain those ID's are correct.
Below that looks to be '圧', meaning 'pressure'. Not sure.
Then '新' meaning 'new'. 80% certain.
At the bottom it is not very clear. Possibly it is '佑' meaning 'located in, residing'. Not sure.
Will think it over more...
Re: Flea Market Chisel
Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2015 9:17 pm
by Chris Hall
Okay, think I have this id done.
The first character: '左' , hidari, means 'left'.
That was one of the characters I was considering but it was really hard to tell exactly what it was.
Then the middle character is '新' shin, meaning 'new'
Last '作' saku, meaning 'made (by)'
Adds up to 'Hidari Shinsaku', which is simply a brand name. I was helped in the ID by So Yamashita, and he tells me the smith's name for that brand is Miyawaki, and the chisel is likely more than 65 years old. Likely to be White Steel #2. Supposed to be pretty good!