Quoting John Ruth 
> John Ruth
> Still somewhat saddened when finding a quality socket chisel with  
> the socket mushroomed into unusablity or entirely absent

Hey, if you can get it cheap, buck or two, grab it!  Galoot Darrell  
LaRue has made a few spears from them for the SCA sport of thrown  
weapons, basically throwing anything that will stick into a log round.  
  Ken Wright and I have been dipping our toes into it and incidentally  
greasing the galoot slope for the guy who hosts the local practices in  
his back yard.  Between the three of us we could probably recycle a  
number of abused chisels into a new and different life. ;-)

Might even start a fad in the kingdom given enough abused rescue chisels.

Esther
Who had a lovely pennsic but managed to break a Darrell turned mallet  
whopping a hachet into splitting some supposedly green ash.  It is a  
strange thing to see a handle at a serious angle to the head and  
realise lengthwise fibers are bending and breaking.