Comments on: Make Your Own Edge Guards

By: Ed Burns

Ed Burns — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 16:18:30 +0000

Plasti Dip works great on the wooden handle of a hammer too.

By: pmrii@aol.com

pmrii@aol.com — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 09:46:15 +0000

Great approach but you have one MAJOR safety issue in the video clip. Why in the world is someone in the workshop with flip-flops on? That is so dangerous, especially while handling sharps.

Phil Rasmussen, US Army-retired
The Mountain Woodworker
Hendersonville, NC
http://www.mountainwoodworker.com
pmrii@aol.com

By: BillT

BillT — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 19:15:05 +0000

I made some like these using Gorilla tape. The first wrap tightly around the chisel with the adhesive side facing out (that was tricky), and then a layer around that, with adhesive facing in.

Works pretty well, but it’s tricky to make them snug enough that they won’t slide off too easily, without making them so snug it’s hard to get them back on the chisel.

By: tirebob

tirebob — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 02:59:23 +0000

I finally found some Plasti-Dip (here in Calgary it seems really tough!) and I have to say it works like a charm! I am might pleased with the result and I have to admit I am now looking for devious way to use this stuff to mess with stuff all over the place!

Great tip… Thanks!

By: tman02

tman02 — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 21:03:11 +0000

Chris -

Thanks for the tip and video. I looked for the chisel tip protectors at the Woodworking Show earlier this year, as I’ve had them for years and some of them are broken, and no one had them nor had seen them in a long while.

I’ve done this and it works well. I just had trouble getting the tape started, but after that it went well. I double dipped them to “cover up” the edges of the tape wrap. They aren’t very pretty but they do the job.

Thanks again.

By: keithm

keithm — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 18:09:48 +0000

A few other options:

* Electrical heat-shrink wrap. Get an assortment cheap at Horror Freight. Fold it back on itself while still pliable.

* Heat an old plastic milk bottle with a heat gun until it turns transparent. Push the tool in and spin around like you are doing a candy apple. Remove and press into a neat blob with gloved hands

* Scrap leather sewn with a “Speedy-Sticher”

By: Capie

Capie — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 19:04:44 +0000

Yes, Chris, I also latched onto your bussiness card idea, but found it a bit un-long-lasting. Currently using plastic from 1 litre icecream containers (cut out in a fat capital “T”), cut and bent to suit the chisel size, and then warp it up with “electrical tape”. The type that the layers fuse into one another (not insulation tape). Takes a few minutes to make but it’s rugged and will last a long time. Doesn’t slip off either. I don’t think we’ll have the Dip thing anytime soon in South Africa….

By: NHSchreiner

NHSchreiner — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 16:29:57 +0000

Megan, that wasn’t Katy. Chris just experimented with the blue can on his toe nails. By the way Chris, if your tools are as sharp as you say, I would not walk around the shop in flip flops.

By: wklees

wklees — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 22:50:37 +0000

What’s the stuff that Lie-Nielsen puts on his accessory/extra blades? It works great! It is soft doesn’t stick to the blade and seems to hold up to knocking around the toolbox. You can see through it so you get a better idea of what you’re holding than an opaque material. Perhaps you could get him to offer it up for purchase.

By: billlattpa

billlattpa — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 22:45:53 +0000

In a pinch I use friction tape. It’s cheap and being an electrician I have plenty of it laying around.