UpCycle an Old Chisel
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ต.ค. 2013
- Why buy a new chisel when you can make an old one look new again. In this video I will show you how to take a old plastic handle chisel and make a new wood handle with a classic look.
These videos are intended for your entertainment and only demonstrate the way I do these things. Thus may not be the best way to perform these tasks.
As always, Be sure to read, understand, and follow the instructions that came with your tools, equipment, and finishing materials. Always work safely and wear proper safety equipment and have adequate dust control and ventilation. - แนวปฏิบัติและการใช้ชีวิต
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Thanks Steve
I like to fix and redo things. I can afford to buy new, but things I fixed mean more to me.
I like fixing the old stuff as well. You may have motivated me to get on those old clunker chisels and bring them back to new. Thanks again for a great video.
Those old chisels have great character.
Excellent video. Very impressed with skills presented.
Joanne Taylor Thanks Joanne. I like making things look new.
great work, I will remember this when I scrounge rummages for old tools
Hi Aaron,Glad you liked it.Regards, Cip
Nice! I am inspired to finally up cycle my old chisel.
Greeting s Hizo! I have a lot of old tools from my father and grandfather. New wood handle tools are so expensive. Cheers
cracking video you have taught me a thing or two thank you for taken the time, another satisfied NORTH EAST U.K. viewer.
Glad you found the video useful.
Well done Cip. I'm sure your refurbished chisel will give you many years of good use.
Nice little project! looks very good when you get it finished.
Hi Cip,
Thank you for the informative and instructive video.
Very nice, good job... Cheers
Thanks,
Wonderful! Thanks for explaining so clearly all the steps and precautions you take when doing this. I really enjoyed watching it. Time for me to have a go.
Cheeers from France, Andy.
Merci, Andy
It is fun to improve an old tool and keep it longer. I visited Paris in 2012, enjoyed it greatly. Hope to visit again this year.
Thanks for watching...Cip
Real nice work, thanks.
That handle was perfectly useable. If you want to make work for yourself, well OK then.
Nice work on the handle.
Haven't had a chance to look at more of your videos. I subscribed so I can come back later.
Nicely done. If the ferrule is a touch loose, a couple of center punch marks will hold it. I'd also use a tube cutter rather than a hacksaw. It cuts straighter and leaves a little burr, which can be rolled. Makes a nice finish, in my opinion.
Howdy Kleinjahr! It may be my cutter but it crushes its way through the copper. That is why I cut them with the hacksaw and clean them up with a file. Thanks for the tip. All the Best.
How the heck did i get here? Can´t remember...But you remember me of how sweet it is to work with wood :)
Awesome Video, greetings from Berlin. New Subscriber :)
Very nice Cip. Like the finish. I use that sanding sealer also but I thin it down with lacquer thinner.Love your videos.
I thin the sanding sealer, too. I thin it just enough so that it spreads easily.
Kind regards,Cip Mendez
Upcycling. What a great concept. My first thought was, "No! You are ruining a perfectly serviceable chisel." That thought went away quickly enough when you pulled out that excellent piece of oak. The finished product looks as good as what the professionals were using in the golden age of hand tool work. Very nice work and thanks for the excellent video. Totally gave it the thumbs up.
Thanks for your nice comment. I like to make things new again. The Oak wood was recycled from a piece of an old end-table. I had been save that piece for a good while, finally got to use it.
Cheers, Cip
Cip's Wood Chips
I think I know the feeling. Last year I restored a few old Stanley planes and pair of hand saws back to usability. There is something rewarding about taking something almost ready for the trash bin and making it back into a quality tool.
Some day in the far flung future some lucky person will be handling one of your Upcycled chisels and may even think back on how it got there. Who knows? They might even see your video here and witness you making it for them! Thanks for your time.
InformationIsTheEdge I am in the process of rehandling my plastic handled marples,nothing wrong good well made but the smell of the handles is awfull,apparentley its the manufacturing process so i too am looking for some decent wood,nice bespoke any ideas?
malcolm oxley I am not particularly qualified to know good advice from bad so I'll pass along what I've learned and you can do the research. The gentleman in this video used a very attractive piece if oak, which I believe is white oak. Very solid, dense hardwood that will resist blows from a mallet. Maple is another hardwood that folks like. It's not as dense as oak but less expensive and some like the look better. Personally, I quite like hickory. My Pop grew up on a farm and all of the tool handles that took the most abuse were made of hickory. Axe handles, wheel barrow handles, hammer and hatchet handles. If it took a beating, hickory was always part of it. Some folks like Walnut because it's a bit easier to tool and can have some striking grain patterns. As it happens, I have a few chunks of white oak that have been drying in my basement for a few years. Some trees came down in a bad storm and the power company left them on the roadside. So if it were my project, it would be oak.
Best of luck with your project. I hope you have a good time, learn some cool stuff, feel the satisfaction of doing a job well and have a beautiful upcycled tool when it is all done!
Nice job, sir! :)
Hey looks pretty good to me. Nice chisel
AJ Pierce Yes, it turn out quite well. Thanks for watching Figgy.
That chisel is now a thing of beauty. I think I will need to have a go. I have a lathe that is just an add on for my drill. All I need now is oak. I spent a few days last week sharpening my chisel set, you know, rouge and leather strop. And silly me just didnt remember just how sharp they are when I did a bit of work and done the big no-no fingers in front of the blade. Yup I paid for it. Blood everywhere. But I wontmake that mistake again. Anyway, great video and have subscribed. Greetings from the UK!
Thanks for subscribing. Hope to be in London October.
Cheers, Cip
Would be great to actually meet you in person.
Excellent...Excellent video.
sdcrysto Thank you for watching
Thank you and take care,
Cip Mendez
first class job cip
I enjoy your work, also.
Cip
long sleeves + lathe usually isnt recommended but great video and im sure you could dismiss over half of the negative comments with a little blacksmithing of that tang.
Thank you for your comment. It was very cold in the shop that day. I need to cut those sleeve to 3/4 length. Cheers.
nicely done cips
Thanks, Mac
very nice.
Jaime Gonzalez Hello Jaime! This one of my most popular and most fun to do projects. Thanks for watching. Cheers.
Parabéns, ficou bonito.
Olá Carlos! Muito obrigado
Great job on the handle, Cip! Now it deserves a sharp edge. I use the Jooltool for that; easiest and quickest sharpener out there...
noooo, do it the old fashioned way. Oilstone/waterstone, rub some jewellers rouge on a block of wood, run the bevel and the sole on it and then do the same with a leather strop......RAZOR sharp!
chris randell I agree. A lot of satisfaction from sharping tools by hand. Wood carving chisels need to be many times sharper than a fine razor blade. Tried using my Dremel only once.
Nice handle. I don't think I would have gone to the effort changing a plastic handle I have tones however that I need to do that have got battered wooden handles on. I will use box, fruit wood, or high quality ash. I find oak to temperamental and can too split if there's any amount of moisture in the air. Horn beam is fabulous if you can get it!!!!
Adam Lynch Thanks for the comment, Adam. It is interesting that this video is getting so many comments this week. It is getting difficult to find chisels with wood handles. I thought this would be a inexpensive way to make your own. Kind regards.
heat up the handle hot enough and te handle will just pull off
I enjoyed your video;very informative. I am in the market for a jawed chuck for my lathe. Which one do you have and do you have any recommendations? Thanks.
Howdy SMD! I am only familiar with Nova chucks. They work well and have a wide variety of jaws. Nova is also sold under the name 'Record Power'. Other woodturner use Vic Marc which might be a better brand. A less expensive brand is Barracuda sold by Penn State Industries (.com). Cheers.
Excellent tutorial Cip, what method do you use to get a handle off an old gouge, so you can reuse the handle?
Take care
Mike
Mike Waldt Hello again Mike. For a wood handle gouge, I would clamp the flute end in a vise being careful not to damage the flute; close to the feral. Take a scrape block of hardwood, oak would be would be good, and place the end grain against the feral. With a hammer or mallet strike the block, knocking the handle away from the gouge. Most wood handle chisels are not glued. Plastic handle are often difficult to remove.. That is why I cut them off.I hope that helps. Cheers
Cip's Wood Chips ferrule. jesus christ.
Cip's Wood Chips Thanks Cip appreciate it. cheers. Mike
Glenn Storey It must be wonderful to have such a command of the English language. I see from visiting your channel you have picked a lot of people up on their misspelling, well done. Lucky that the community has such a diligent observer.
A couple of technique thoughts. First to cut copper you should have used a plumber's cut off tool. You would be left with an internal burr which the tool removes as well. Second , removing the handle you should have used a power grinder, if you have. Faster and cleaner cut. The air bubbly inside the original handle was to avoid hydraulic compression when pushing into the handle. Had you drilled the new handle deeper, seating the chisel would have been much easier allowing for air displacement on a tight fit. Lastly, when separating the handle from the stock on the lathe, that is where I would have used the hacksaw. Faster and cleaner cut. Opinions are like noses, cleaned up, here are mine.
NYWoodworker Thank you for your suggestions. These videos are a sharing of how I did the project. There are always many and often better alternatives. Cheers
How many rpm would you say ur running at there? 1800 or so?
Howdy Brad! I turned things much slower than most. I probably turned this at 1,000 RPM. 1,200 max. Thank you for your question. Cheers.
nice handle, but I would have started with a better chisel. A nice socket chisel would probably be easier to rehandle (less steps). The great thing about small projects is you can afford really nice wood, you can get exotic turning blanks pretty cheap.
Greeting Jacob! Thank you so much for your comment, This video got more comments than I ever expected. Which is very pleasing in many ways. I made new handles for my dad's and grandfather's chisel that were damaged or just missing.
I was missing several sizes. Wood handle chisels are expensive. I wanted to see if I could convert a plastic handle to a wood handle. I do have a video on making a new handle for a socket style chisel: th-cam.com/users/edit?o=U&video_id=GOzWiGCXirU Thanks again...Cheers
Jak toczę takie drobne elementy to mam 2200 obr./min. spróbuj tak na pewno lepiej pójdzie , powodzenia .
Cip's Wood Chips I recently got into woodworking. I was digging through my great grandfather toolbox and found a chisel! This was great for me as I was looking at another chisel. Only problem is that the wood handle is split into 3 halves and is bent at an odd angle. I don't want to throw it away but replace the handle. Any ideas?
Robby Helme I made handles for some of my grandfather's old chisels. Take a good look at the old handle, maybe glue it back together to use it as a pattern. Find a good piece of wood and make a new handle. You may as well give it a light sanding and sharpening. I keep mine grandfather's mostly for show.
I would have just built another mallet if that was the only I had…
Regarding the fit of the ferrule. Why not heat the ferrule? If the handle stock is left couple thousands too big, heating the ferrule will oversized it. Drive it on. Repolish it.
great tutorial Cip's,what other wood would you choose other than oak? I have seven to do and i'm not a turner regards malc
malcolm oxley Hello Malc! I am not a expert on chisels. I see many made from Ash a few from Walnut. I think it mostly needs to be hardwood with straight grain. The wood needs to be able to absorb shock without splitting or chipping. Well that is my opinion. Cheers
Cip's Wood Chips well iv'e had a go Cip's7 chisel handles and 18 file handles done totally enjoyed it,thanks again for an excellent tutorial,one of the handles is made from what we call over the pond as privet and it proved to be a really good choice.cheers
with all the timbers you have in the States you could not have used a worse species for a chisel handle. I've never seen a wooden chisel handle made of oak in 45 years of professional woodworking, Ash is the preferred timber in Europe as Hickory is hardly ever seen here but is probably the best for the purpose as its shock absorbing properties are legendary. An Oak handle is not capable of withstanding repeated blows as might be used on a chisel in everyday use and will split before long. if you wanted it to last a bit longer then make it a registered chisel and use the other half of the cut copper ferrule on the end of the handle to prevent it from splitting .Then it might last for more than six months.
Howdy Sam! Very useful information. Thank you for your comment. Kind Regards.
I think you are thinking of Red Oak and if so I would agree. But if he is using white oak then that is a totally different story and a good substitute for hickory which is the absolute best IMHO. But white oak comes in a close second---better than maple and walnut, although some would say not quite as pretty. I think made of white oak it will probably outlast all but the youngest of us and if it does break he can of course just make another :)
That is the problem with youtube... idiots telling people what to do
I'm just getting into lathe work so bear with me, but why are the RPMs set so low that you can actually count them ? And I'm not the Safety Police, in fact I hate them, but I could have sworn your long sleeve cuff touched the chuck, twice ? Perhaps that's why the speed is set so low ;-) Nice handle, I hope I can get that good, oh and I'm glad I don't live in Europe, where they haven't had oak handles on tools for 45 years **eye roll**
Greeting! Yes I am perhaps the slowest turner. I seldom turn anything above 1000 RPM. It was very cold that day. I used Oak because that what I had laying around the shop many people prefer Ash or Maple. Most of the work I do with a chisel requires mostly pushing and maybe a slight tap of a mallet. All the Best to you.
Hey all. Dont mean to be negative but I would like to make you all aware that these plastic handles are moulded around the 'tang' of the chisel. The tang on chisels with woden handles are longer and more pointed for grip. This is not required on a chisel with a plastic handle as the plastic is moulded around the short tang that will likely have some form of groove for the plastic to seat in and grip too. When you cut this handle away the tang thats left is not really suitable for a wooden handle. Its too short and while it obviouslt can be done its not going to be as secure as the origional plastic handle and wont last as long as a short tang with a plastic handle or a long tang with a wooden handle. Unless the handle is damaged or loose leave well enough alone is my advice !
+ScotsFurian That wasn't negative. It just wasn't praise. A broad distinction to be sure. Your advice is sound and well reasoned. On the matter of, 'leave well enough alone' I was in complete agreement! But when I saw the finished product, I was totally on board with upcycling. A good epoxy would likely hold just as well as the groove you mentioned does on the plastic handle. If Cip busted that new handle, he could make another! One has to admit the finished product looks quite good too. So, here I am in middle ground. You make sense AND I dig Cip's upcycled chisel. For now, I'll just enjoy the video.
InformationIsTheEdge
Like life nothing is black and white., I often find myself contradicting myself as there is no right or wrong but there can be better ways of doing things or achieving goals. I like cips aproach and re-use ,i dont like the term upcycling, more hipster fad jargon' as much material as possiable to help both the environment and my pocket. This is not a new idea, the war years were hard and while i am too young to have endured them i know my history well enough to have learned from it. The finished product looks well and will work well enough but to further my philosophy its material, time and energy being used on something that didnt require repairing in the first place ! Totally wastefull in all respectsd apart from asthetics. He mentions that hes worried about smashing up his mallet as the handle has a metal cap for a hammer. To me , having being trained to use the right tool for the job, id use a hammer and not a mallet. Sigh. I really didnt mean for this to sound like a rant but maybe it is. The more i think about it the less i like this video but it would be a good way to repair a plastic handle chisel if it were broken. Silver linings eh !
ScotsFurian I can certainly see the value in your ideas of the right tool for the job and, if I may paraphrase slightly, not fixing what aint broke. Perfectly sensible. I quite liked your post as it made me think in a manner to which I am unaccustomed and as my handle suggests, I dig that kind of thing. Oh, one more thing! I quite like your thumbnail of the homonid from 2001: A Space Odyssey.
+ScotsFurian Not so sure about that tang being to short. I have Lie Nielsen chisels. The tang on this one is longer then mine. Of course mine are socket chisels. Maybe that makes a difference.
4 inch angle grinder with a cutoff wheel would have shortened your labor.
All this work just because the old chisel had a metal top whct could damage the mallet? This film is probably made to show how fine he is turning a new woden handle,. Otherwise he could put a tin plate on one of the sides of the mallet and make it a combine tool.
Execution of idea OUTstanding!!! Fixing what's not broke, not so much, there's plenty of abused/broken tools out there that could use your obvious talent/skill. I understand this is a showcase video for your channel to which I've just subscribed but If you wanted to get rid of metal cap you could have done just that.
+Damian Grouse Hello Damian! Thank you for your subscription and comment. This is a popular video and I got a wide range of reactions. The video was about taking something useful laying around the shop and making it into something more useful to me. When I bought the chisel it was rusty and the cutting edge was dull and chipped, It was engraved with the initials of the local junior college, but good steel. I keep the chisel sharp and use it often. Kind regards.
+Cip's Wood Chips Thanks for your response, It must be hard to keep up with all the comments. My comment was "my two cents worth" and with inflation they don't buy as much anymore. Take care!
nice work but why ruin a perfectly servicable tool when there are tons of barely functional chisels only needing good handles ?
should say use not ruin
Not sure I am all that keen with using your Lathe rails like an anvil. Move the camera instead.
It was a good chisel. There was no need to modify it for your personal preferences. You should have kept it to use it with a hammer instead of a mallet.