In a message dated 10/10/2000 11:25:41 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
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<< Expensive chisels would be kept in a cloth pouch w/ possible a leather
bottom
 where the sharp ends go. Less than expensive, workday chisels, wrap a few
 layers of masking tape on the sharp ends. Don't use duct tape unless you want
 to spend a lot of time trying to get it off the chisels. Or, make a sleeve
 out of cardboard & tape, or any other handy, though not abrasive, material.
  >>

The prob with the cloth pouch is that the cloth absorbs atmospheric moisture
and keeps the damn chisels wet, and ya get rust.  At least in my basement.
Or is it methane from the masonite cows?

Ralph