[Woodcarver] Double beveled chisels..as recommended by Chris Pye

[Ivan Whillock]

Some clarification of terminology might help in the discussion of double and secondary bevels.  

In wood carving lingo a tool with a "double bevel" has a bevel on both sides of the tool, as with most caver's chisels.  A single beveled tool  has the bevel on one side of the tool, as with a carpernter's chisel--which gives it a self-jigging function (follows a straight wall along the unbeveled side).  And, of course,  most gouges are single beveled tools.

A "secondary bevel" is the term used for the short bevel near the tip,  located  on  the same side of the tool  that is already beveled.  
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