Turn Your Own Tool Handles
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- 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.
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.
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!!!
Shawn : Thank you so much. You are one of the best teachers out there. I am going to catch-up on your other videos.
Excellent! You covered every aspect of making a handle. The most thorough video I've seen. Thanks so much!
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
Excellent video. Thank you for your time and for showing this
I bought an iron without a handle today, now I know what to do this weekend and how. As always, very informative Thank you so much.
Great video. Learned a lot. Very useful information. Keep up the good work.
31:57 - I shuddered when the skew scraped the live center, lol
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!
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.
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Great video Shawn! Thank you for your time and ideas. You are both talented and skilled.
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I am glad I found your channel. Excellent excellent explanation of every minute detail. Nice and clear filming too. Thanks a lot. I subscribed.
Very well done video! You’re a great teacher! I’ll be making some new handles shortly! Thank you for sharing! 👍👍👍😎🇨🇱
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very informative,great stuff-keep up the good work
I am new to turning and learned a lot. Will save me lots of money making my own handles. Thanks!
Just another GREAT video. It's a pleasure going back and seeing videos before I subscribed.
Brilliant Video. I have watched many of your videos and you teach so well and inspire.
Awesome video Professor! Best 49 minutes I spent doing anything today. Keep ‘em coming.
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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!
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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Thoroughly enjoyable and immensely informative. Thanks!
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Probably the best demonstration I've seen.... thank you dude x
The best "Handle" video I've seen Shawn. Thanks for sharing.
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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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Wonderful video....entertaining and informative... thanks for sharing!
Maybe the best teachers I've ever watched. For sure one of the best.
Thank you so much for this lesson!
Super! There’s always a lot to learn. This is one of the best places to learn it. THANKS!
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Terrific tutorial, thank you!
Great information, thank you!
What a top bloke. I really enjoyed that.
Beautiful!! Thank you!!
As always, very informative and well presented. Some types of wood we never see in the UK! Thanks for sharing.
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Thanks for the great content as always!
Watching again. Live Oak handle for my new scraper. Rectangle tang in round hole. Thanks!!
Спасибо, за понятные и наглядные объяснения.👍👍👍👍👍
Very nice and really informative.
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I am about to turn my first handle. This has been VERY educational. Thank you so much.
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Excellent video!!!
I know that turning handles are something that I’ll be doing so this was very helpful. Thanks.
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You're brilliant. And you do nice work, too.
Ojalá tus videos fueran traducidos al español son lo mejor enhorabuena
Great timing, I have a little burnisher I want to make my first handle for. Thanks for the video.
That's a good project.
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.
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?
Great video, as usual!
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How to remove any questions about the procedure, this was extremely informative and so glad I stumbled upon this video. Many thanks my friend!!!
Thanks for a very comprehensive Video. I like you style of presentation. Thumbs UP.
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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.
In depth and Great video!! Thanks
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Very nice vid. You keep it interesting.
This dude is too freaking cool! Those handles look great!
Thanks much. Tech note: you can just use pipe instead of a threaded fitting. Even "light" copper tubing is plenty strong enough. A type M copper, 1" size, will hold 3800# of pressure. The heat/fit trick works just fine there as well.
returning to San Marcos. I like it better.
@@wortheffort It's a choice. Many look for simpler means.
now that was a a good video! Thank You for making this video......
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Great educator. Please keep going
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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.
Thats just great job :-) Thanks for sharing.
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This is awesome. I know what I'm doing this weekend. I made my first bowl and acorn last weekend. Dude your channel is awesome. Thanks for sharing your knowledge
Make a mess.
Thanks, good job on the video.
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I don't yet turn, but if I ever do decide to give it a go, I know exactly where I will come for great information. Great video
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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.
Nice vid mate 👍
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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.
good video man!
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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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I like making my own tools and of course tool handles. Favorite wood for handles: Osage Orange. Big enough chucks can be found around here being sold as firewood. You can also find the South American relative usually called Argentine Osage. Don't buy the Guatemalan "Mora" It's not the same. Walnut is my least favorite material. Too soft, stains my hands. Copper or brass tube & fittings are easily made into ferrules. Put a slight bevel on the inside so they can be driven onto the handle.
Tool steel is available online in a wide variety of sizes. Generally available in an easily machined state and can be hardened & tempered to suite after shaping. Water, oil and air hardening varieties are available. I use O-1. Tempering can often be done using your wife's oven (when she isn't looking.) If you are a scrounger, Cheap!, you can use leaf springs or even coils if you have a basic forge. LP tube forges can be made easily or purchased.
Push the limits & have fun.
I think it is like a fulcrum of pressure when it is to narrow. Might allow more vibration and expansion on the inside of the wood between grains. When it is longer it has greater grip on wood and shaft. Like when a person, like myself, is waring a thick belt or waistband.
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
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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Awesome work! Well, I've got some tools to rebuild :) Catch ya on the flip side
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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.
Good video. I've made a few handles. The hardest to fit was the one I cut from flat bar myself as the tang was slightly off centre. It seems ok in use though. I used a 22mm copper pipe offcut for the ferule which removed the need to machine any metal. I also used some epoxy. It seemed like a good idea but I totally get your method tang fitting method and will give it a try next time.
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Nice video! I like Ash and White Oak, and Apple is beautiful and strong if it doesn't crack on you during the drying process.
Thanks. Fruit woods are best.
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
@40:05 The struggle is real. Really needed that LOL, thanks.
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Thompson *does* make great steel.
I love making handles!
quick and fun
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.
Made my first handles this week, it is immensely satisfying, even though they are far from perfect.
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I recently (waiting for delivery) ordered a length of brass tubing from an online metal supplier.
Cost for 2 feet was $22 .75" OD and .094" wall thickness. I figured I would spend the same amount on a piece of copper from convenience when what I wanted was brass.
I like Osage Orange/Bodark for tool handles and mallets ... wish we had more of it around here (NE Wisconsin).
Always what you don't have. I'd like maple.
@@wortheffort I would be happy to do a wood exchange, what grows well in Virginia that you would like to have?
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.
Idk if you know or not but an old blacksmith I know told me to hit the bottom of the handle to seat the tool it seems counterintuitive but it really works great
Newton's First Law
"There's another way to do it." LOL - good cover!
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Spot on. First.
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I had guessed the cone center was to provide support for when you cut the tenon I never wouldve guessed the real answer! lol
Than you so much for sharing this info,you are one hell of a good teacher,do have a question about the wood though,does the wood have to be dried before use of could i use green wood,specifically pecan?
Osage has heft and feels so good in the hands! I’ve made several handles and I’ve had a lot of difficulty centering the hole for the chisel. Even using a drill bit in the lathe was difficult. Guess just need more practice as I’m new.
That always helps.
Bodark.....I have never heard it called that. I had to use my google fu to make sure....Also know as "hedge" and "Osage orange" in Missouri. :) I have made some tool handles from it and was amazed how well it turned. I was able to get a sheen with no finish. Beautiful once it changes color, but I hate the yellow at first.
Bodark is a corrupted pronunciation of Bois d'arc, another name for that wood.
Corrupted? We kicked those French out a long time ago. So we can pronounce it any way we want. :)
Thanks for the Gear lecture, as everyone of yours. About coating. Would shellac coating makes a better grip than wax which tends to slip?
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?
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. 🧐🤷🏼♀️
Xclnt! Thank you. Timely ...
Always a pleasure watching and learning from you. You’re a great instructor and good at videography!
I’m not a turner but have a Shopsmith. I need to make some handles for files and for a few very old wooden hand clamps that were given to me. So I wish you would have shown us how to make the holes specifically for the threaded rod and the tapered files.
Again, Thanks for your videos!!
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
What the brand and model of that jaw? I'm interested in getting one. Great video... Thank you!
Use hack saw to cut off , and deburr with carbide tool
Hey! I saw that at 31:58!