Jim Koepke
02-27-2009, 12:02 AM
My acquisition of a pre-lateral #6 was mentioned in another thread. It does not need much lateral adjustment, but since there was a little extra time and I felt like a little recreation on the lathe a custom blade whacker was made.
The handle is one of my first chisel handles, made of myrtyle. At the time, my concept of how to turn and what size was wanted was all in limbo. It was a touch big for a paring chisel. The head is from a piece of scrape that someone said was probably lignum vitae.
The handle was chucked in the lathe and the taper for the chisel socket was straightened out. Didn't give it much thought, but when it came off the lathe it calipered to 1/2 inch. So, put a #8, dowelling bit, in the brace and bored a hole in the head. Tried the head on for size and now it won't come off.
Don't you just love when that happens?
jim
The handle is one of my first chisel handles, made of myrtyle. At the time, my concept of how to turn and what size was wanted was all in limbo. It was a touch big for a paring chisel. The head is from a piece of scrape that someone said was probably lignum vitae.
The handle was chucked in the lathe and the taper for the chisel socket was straightened out. Didn't give it much thought, but when it came off the lathe it calipered to 1/2 inch. So, put a #8, dowelling bit, in the brace and bored a hole in the head. Tried the head on for size and now it won't come off.
Don't you just love when that happens?
jim