Jim Koepke
12-05-2008, 1:52 AM
Almost all of my chisels have been bought off of the great auction site or have come from garage/estate/yard sales.
Often they come with broken handles or no handles. Some come with replacement handles that are kind of yucky. So having recently bought an old lathe dirt cheap, I have been experimenting with making my own paring chisel handles that are sized for my hand.
The rose wood and the wood that I do not know what it is was given to me by an old friend who left things to me when he passed on.
One is made of iron wood donated to me by a fellow Creeker, Thanks again.
The red heart was bought for me by my wife for the purpose of making handles.
She also let me have some purple heart, but I have to cut and rip that before it can be turned. The unknown wood was hard enough to rip since I only have hand saws currently. Hope to try and get current applied to an old band saw in the shop, but that is another story.
The first picture is of the handles made, the second is some of the handles that inspired this shape to be chosen. From left to right they are Buck Bros, Marples, file handle, Buck Bros. File handle and a G&D Cinn. I forgot to include the Swan chisel that has a similar shape handle and the last image is of a witherby handle from some witherby stationary.
The wood on the home made handle second from the right is unknown, but very hard, cuts nice on the lathe. It had a brownish patina before being cut, but a light blond look when fresh wood was exposed. In the picture, a coat of oil and wax has been applied and it darkened a little. It has a nice look to it. All the other handles have one or two coats of a tung oil mixture.
Soon, my plans are to start making some for the chisels that get hit with a mallet. Anyone have suggestions on what kind of glue to use for the leather washers?
jim
Often they come with broken handles or no handles. Some come with replacement handles that are kind of yucky. So having recently bought an old lathe dirt cheap, I have been experimenting with making my own paring chisel handles that are sized for my hand.
The rose wood and the wood that I do not know what it is was given to me by an old friend who left things to me when he passed on.
One is made of iron wood donated to me by a fellow Creeker, Thanks again.
The red heart was bought for me by my wife for the purpose of making handles.
She also let me have some purple heart, but I have to cut and rip that before it can be turned. The unknown wood was hard enough to rip since I only have hand saws currently. Hope to try and get current applied to an old band saw in the shop, but that is another story.
The first picture is of the handles made, the second is some of the handles that inspired this shape to be chosen. From left to right they are Buck Bros, Marples, file handle, Buck Bros. File handle and a G&D Cinn. I forgot to include the Swan chisel that has a similar shape handle and the last image is of a witherby handle from some witherby stationary.
The wood on the home made handle second from the right is unknown, but very hard, cuts nice on the lathe. It had a brownish patina before being cut, but a light blond look when fresh wood was exposed. In the picture, a coat of oil and wax has been applied and it darkened a little. It has a nice look to it. All the other handles have one or two coats of a tung oil mixture.
Soon, my plans are to start making some for the chisels that get hit with a mallet. Anyone have suggestions on what kind of glue to use for the leather washers?
jim