I did paperwork this morning, organizing lumber invoices as well figuring out and paying a few small, lingering medical bills, shared a late brunch my wife made us, and changed and headed over to the shop planning to stow away ladders, planks, and misc stuff from the just-completed job. Instead I fooled around with my mortising machine as I'd not used the long-sought-after part I finally obtained that allows the use of the smaller hollow chisels.
I'd been wanting to mortise out a block to hold the old beater chisels I salvaged, reground, and resharpened from my carpenter toolbox and keep in the shop so I don't have to go to the truck when I need a chisel. Lacking a decent piece of material I ripped and ploughed out a PT 4x4 which will at least suffice for now and keep the chisels together and protected.
The PM2 was a little lacking in cleaning out the machined mortises as that PT yellow pine is kinda stringy and holds its moisture, so I grabbed the new Stanley Sweetheart socket chisel set that I hadn't used yet and got all the raggedy-ass material out of the cuts with the eighth-, quarter-, and half-inchers.
The factory edges on the Sheffield steel still need some refinement and stropping to get rid of the grind-lines and burr, but the half-incher was still plenty sharp enough to open up my thumb quite cleanly.
The chief is such a nice carry for a large folder. A compression lock version would be amazing 
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