Turn Your Own Tool Handles
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- Опубликовано: 27 сен 2024
- Turn your own tool handle -
Turning a handle is a basic turning skill but there is a big difference between a handle to hold steel and one that'll work with you and enhance your ability to make smooth and crisp cuts. In this video we talk about the three components that make up most tool handles and techniques to mate them together and improve the finished result.
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I love the turning lesson! You have a great way of explaining things that others make so hard to understand.
Hi Shawn, I very much enjoy your tutorials. You have a great voice to explain turning. I am a Novis turner. I am retired and have a lot of Hand and Power tools. I have turned Acorn Birdhouses, Handles for fishing rods. I just bought 3 bowl gouges from Thompson. Now I'll be using your process to handle them up. I'm not too crazy about cutting the brass with wood chisels. Thanks so much!!!
I watched your video this morning. Went to Rockler and picked up a fingernail gouge, a block of cherry, and went to home depot and got a copper coupling. Turned my first handle and it came out pretty good. Can't wait to use it. Thanks.
awesome
31:57 - I shuddered when the skew scraped the live center, lol
Excellent! You covered every aspect of making a handle. The most thorough video I've seen. Thanks so much!
Hey Shawn, I watched this yesterday and followed everything you said and I was able to make a parting tool handle out of black walnut. I was apprehensive about cutting brass with my tools but it worked great and didn't dull my tool. Thanks tons for your videos.
Thank you so much. I have a bunch of old wood and metal files missing handles handed down from my grandfather. I’m going to make some new handles for them now. You are an excellent teacher!
Maybe the best teachers I've ever watched. For sure one of the best.
Probably the best demonstration I've seen.... thank you dude x
Thank you so much for this lesson!
Just another GREAT video. It's a pleasure going back and seeing videos before I subscribed.
I just finished my first ever turning experience. It was to replace the handle on a small brass mallet that came cracked where the head attached. I used a solid table leg as the stock and to make a long story short, I ended up on your channel due to be bitten by the turning bug (interested in pens now). Great content with extremely valuable information.
How to remove any questions about the procedure, this was extremely informative and so glad I stumbled upon this video. Many thanks my friend!!!
Спасибо, за понятные и наглядные объяснения.👍👍👍👍👍
I am glad I found your channel. Excellent excellent explanation of every minute detail. Nice and clear filming too. Thanks a lot. I subscribed.
Terrific tutorial, thank you!
Man, this is cool. I just picked up a small lathe, so I'm getting an idea for things. Your videos are pretty easy to follow, and your projects look great!
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When I was doing my engineering apprenticeship we were shown how to fit file handles by heating the tang to cherry heat then burn into the handle, they never came loose. Great videos.
That's how lots of knife makers do it and why they taper their tangs a little. Drill a small pilot then burn your way down.
Shawn : Thank you so much. You are one of the best teachers out there. I am going to catch-up on your other videos.
I'm turning my own handles for my first set of tools. I made 1 tool out of a pry bar, tapped it and mounted a carbide cutting tip. not I using it to make nice handles for my the rest of my tools. I'm pretty new to turning but your videos are the reason I started. a little long winded but the content is all useful and well thought out. thanks for what you do.
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Great information, thank you!
If you turn a tenon on the drive end , and grip in gripper jaws , your drill does not pull out of tail stock quill , , and shavings can be pulled out of hole easier , and the little left over button in chuck makes nice knobs , and inserts for inlays
Brilliant Video. I have watched many of your videos and you teach so well and inspire.
Something else occurred to me after first comment. Can handles be made safely and successfully from glued up stock (minimum of joints) although a handle disguising itself as a crazy bowl is a cool thought. Local specialty lumber yard rarely carries anything other 4/4" stock. If I want thicker than that I dress in black, go out after the bedtime feeding of the wood stoves and raid the neighbors wood pile.
What a top bloke. I really enjoyed that.
Perfect timing for a great video. I have a whole box of various tools needing handles, and quite a few have square tangs.
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Thompson *does* make great steel.
For anyone wanting to use the brass ferrules, those are for hoses on oxygen / acetylene torches and there is a crimping tool specifically for them
That was great Shawn. I was just about to use some old plastic conduit. Not any more, nice new handles !!! Thanks, Stewart, south west Australia.
I am about to turn my first handle. This has been VERY educational. Thank you so much.
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Nice discussion on what “seems” to be a simple subject. Well done. I think the cause of most steel not being centred in the handle happens due to the bending of a square tang in use. My roughing gouge is at a 15 degree angle after only a few hours use. Carter and Sons does it right with all round tangs. Good advice on reducing hole diameter for square tangs.
Roughing gouges are a beast of a seperate name. That Carter gouge is nice.
Great video. I made a tool to hollow out some little barrels I made. I made a handle for it to match the existing set of cheap chisels I have. Nice to know I did it correctly.
Great new video. Totally agree with you, making your own handles is a super idea. I can chart my progress by the quality of the handle!
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You're brilliant. And you do nice work, too.
I make my own handles to take double ended bowl gouges. The handle is from ash and the ferrule I use 1" I/D stainless tube with a 1/8"wall thickness. I silver solder an 11ga. stainless cap onto the ferrule and drill it to suit the gouge diameter. Once the ferrule is forced onto the handle, I then drill and tap it 5/16 coarse to take a set screw.
I'm glad i watched this video. I've ordered a couple expensive tools only and they show up off-centered and crooked... so i send them back.
Awesome video Professor! Best 49 minutes I spent doing anything today. Keep ‘em coming.
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I know that turning handles are something that I’ll be doing so this was very helpful. Thanks.
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Excellent video. Thank you for your time and for showing this
Months ago i got a cheap tool set 12 or so in a set and the handles were sticks basically until i threw it in a drill and sandpapered some wave in it. Thanks for this great video as always
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@40:05 The struggle is real. Really needed that LOL, thanks.
Yep
I had guessed the cone center was to provide support for when you cut the tenon I never wouldve guessed the real answer! lol
Great timing, I have a little burnisher I want to make my first handle for. Thanks for the video.
That's a good project.
Thanks for a very comprehensive Video. I like you style of presentation. Thumbs UP.
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Beautiful!! Thank you!!
Made my first handles this week, it is immensely satisfying, even though they are far from perfect.
Awesome
Super! There’s always a lot to learn. This is one of the best places to learn it. THANKS!
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Great video Shawn! Thank you for your time and ideas. You are both talented and skilled.
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Hey! I saw that at 31:58!
Thanks for the great content as always!
Excellent video!!!
As always, very informative and well presented. Some types of wood we never see in the UK! Thanks for sharing.
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I love making handles!
quick and fun
Thanks, just about ready to upgrade mine. BTW, got the t-shirt! Looks great.
Thanks. So you're saying the T made you look great too?
Use hack saw to cut off , and deburr with carbide tool
I made a carbide tool, and wanted a bit more handle. I sandwiched the square shaft by gluing different woods, leaving a square center. I put a ferrule on both ends to ensure the different woods wouldn’t come apart in use. Think your way would be easier
Thanks, Ya, glue ups take time.
Great video, as usual!
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Hey man, I really enjoyed this video. It so happens I'm getting ready to turn some handles. I have a Sorby multi tip scraper that I like a lot but a little could use a little more leverage. I'm also wanting to weight it some. Do you have a video on that? Thanks, Joe Traynham
Thanks for the Gear lecture, as everyone of yours. About coating. Would shellac coating makes a better grip than wax which tends to slip?
Very nice and really informative.
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Very nice! Keep up the good work - good training tecquniques, take it from a former trainer.
"There's another way to do it." LOL - good cover!
yep
37:37 Use a file to get rid of brass. Better eye protection is recommended. Brass being non-ferrous makes evil sharp tiny splinters that can't be pulled out with stong magnets. They are nearly invisible sometimes
Maybe you're just not goin' with the brass grain.
Very useful thank you. Really helps But I have a carbide tipped tool I have to make a handle for. How do i hammer this down into the handle. 🧐🤷🏼♀️
In depth and Great video!! Thanks
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The only way to go.. Buy blanks and make you tool handle to fit you hand.. ❤
It may be that the tang is so short that in use the leverage on the short tang rotates the tool steel. A longer tang would help. A epoxy bedded in tang - making the tang larger makes a solid tool.
Tang depth is set from factory as shown via recess.
I was sure I stayed awake throughout the video, but what I didn't hear was how to obtain that tight wedged fit with a round shank. Do you drill 1/32" undersize, or use epoxy, or something else that fails to occur to me?
Spot on. First.
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Awesome work! Well, I've got some tools to rebuild :) Catch ya on the flip side
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Hey Shawn, this is my second time watching this video…the first was just because I enjoy your videos and teaching methods (I have learned a lot from you), but this second time was because I now posses a steel 3/8” bowl gouge for which I need to make a handle. My question is about seating the steel into the handle. Yours in the video had a blunted tip, so you could wack away with a mallet, but mine is an already shaped and sharpened bowl gouge. How do I go about getting that into the handle if I can’t beat on it like you did?
Beat the handle.
Thanks, good job on the video.
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Thats just great job :-) Thanks for sharing.
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Great instruction. Planning to use this as a guide for a garden tool handle since i am thinking of spring on this -13 day! Was the “oil” you put on the wood linseed oil?
would metal cutting tools used on metal lathes work on wood?? one could 'stack' the cutters for different widths.
Just curious but. Why aren’t lathe turning tools LABLED as to what they are. . Unless you know what a bowl gouge and spindle gouge looks like. You will have no idea based on just looking at them. Or am I missing the label ID system ??
Would a bastard file work for removing the threads on the ferrule? And I'd be curious to attempt a burn-in fit like some knife makers do with hidden tang knives. Just personal drive to always "invent a better mousetrap" even if it ends up being to my detriment!
Shawn. I am new to all of this and just setting up my home workshop and am so glad to have come across you and all your wonderful worth effort tutorials. Thanks so much for your sharing and inspiring me. Best Wishes
Do you have a video that addresses how to modify chisels such as a skew and gouge?
You mean shape and sharpen. Check out a video I published on sharpening last month.
@@wortheffort Yes, modifying the shape
Will laminated birch work for a roughing gouge handle?
Birch plywood? I wouldn’t risk it.
Great video Shawn....are you really using Mahoney's Finishes for the handle at the 42:10 point of your video or is it any finishing oil in the bottle....going to make a handle soon....thanks for all the tips in this video.....Cheers.
I LOVE osage too! (Bo'darc)
Really awesome and instructive video--thanks! I am going to re-handle a few of my own tools now that you have made it less daunting. You didn't even put any epoxy in the handle to "lock in" the steel? Is it completely unnecessary? Would it help with vibration reduction?
David Bockel try it both ways and decide.
where can I find straight grained bodark?
Tree trunk?
I can't wait to get my first lathe, I'm new to your channel, I've watched about 15 videos in the last 2 day's, If it's okay with you somewhere down the road, I would like to pick your brain, or take a class or 2.
Sincerely Joe Mutarelli
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Would be easier to just pick up some ferrules. :)
I've always assumed that ferrules are the length they are to ensure a good friction fit, rather than raw strength.
could be
i use birch or ash for my tool hande in france
we don't have those here in Texas. It's always what you don't have.
Great video.... can you supply some info on the Thompson steel you use? Where to buy, etc..
thompsonlathetools.com/
Great video , how did that Pecan taste by the way ? lol
Would a metal file on the brass threads work better?
one way to find out.
Carbide tools would shave the threaded tube better and a Carbide tool - sharp triangle - would cut the threads easily. Brass might not be simple zinc copper.
I think these managed to do the job. Sharp triangle would likely follow threads.
Also, would there be a benefit in hollowing the base of the handle amd pouring in shot to help with vibration?
You likely learned that trick from me.
@@wortheffort I actually learned that one from Mr. Marley in seventh grade shop class. (Do they still even have shop for seventh graders any more?) We made dead blow hammers from rawhide, galvanized pipe tees, and hickory handles we turned from hickory that was harvested from a storm downed tree that had been salvaged several years before. Mr. Marley always claimed that because it had air dried, it was more flexible than kiln dried lumber, and thus better at absorbing shock. We split our blanks with a froe, turned them round, then finished shaping them with draw knives and spoke shaves. The hammers were filled with #8 shot before the brass face was screwed in. It was a nice hammer, but it got lost sometimes during my time in the Navy. I think I just figured out what to make with the grandkids this summer.
Thompson has a V and a U bowl gouge. What's the diff? Which one do you like?
Thompson has a very good article explaining this on his site. I use V for sharpening reasons.
Hi Shawn, I get hammering the steel into the hole for a blunt piece of metal, but how did you do it for the already formed cutting edges, i.e. the skew? Did you just use a block between hammer and steel and if so, how did you keep it straight? 3 hands?
Pound handle not edge.
@@wortheffort Thanks, I will try that.
Hi Shawn,
thank you for sharing!
22:02: Very cool tip for making a parallel Zylinder.
26:54: I didnt know that its possible to drill a hole without a Chuck.
39:26: Why didnt you hold the measuring stick until it fit with one hand and the gouge with the other hand? Is that dangerous?
Thanks. Not that coordinated I guess.
How do you get the sketchup models from your computer to your viewer app?
I don't use sketchup but I do transfer files via Google drive.
My wife says you’re not vain but she wasn’t ruling out obsessive compulsive....😂😂
Same difference. :)