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Held in this way great control can be exerted and much force applied.
For paring the surface as flat and smooth as possible, the chisel should be reversed, that is, held so that the flat side will act as a guide.

Held in this way the chisel has no equal for paring except the plane.

Paring with the chisel is the method used in cutting stop chamfers.

(See p.

185, Chapter VIII.) By holding the cutting edge obliquely to the direction of the grain and of the cut, the effective "sliding cut" is obtained, Fig.