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Are these tools any good?

I haven't done any turning since high school, but the bug is biting me again. To add to the itch, I recently was given a set of twelve decent-looking tools; the donor has had them about twenty years but never used them. The handles are a bit short for heavy facework, but OK otherwise--stained hardwood of some sort and nicely shaped, with brass ferrules. The tool steel appears to be HSS (orange sparks from the grinder); it's of a rather silvery gray color and the sole marking on all the tools is "-AD-" stamped into the steel.

Anybody recognize the stamp? Worth the effort to regrind to usable shapes, or pitch 'em and get my checkbook out?

John Wadsworth, in Delhi, NY

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Any HSS tool is worth keeping and regrinding (IMHO).

Peter Teubel Milford, MA

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Denis Marier

Denis,

  1. No, the "-AD-" is the only visible mark. From what I've seen of other Addis tools, I rather doubt that these rise to that level of finish quality.

  1. The grinding wheel used was a 60-grit Norton white wheel. Other tools marked "HSS" also give clusters of orange sparks; some cheap tools I would not suspect of being HSS give long white spark trails.

It seem that the proof of the pudding will have to be in the eating; I'll regrind a gouge or two and a couple of scrapers and see if I can tell the difference between my rusty technique and any shortcomings in the tools.

Thanks to all who replied,

John Wadsworth, in Delhi, NY

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