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#1 ·
New Carving and Turning handles

Move over Grinling Gibbons. Have tools will carve. Have carved. But I don't like the mishmash of handles that happens in an aggregated set. So I gathered up some dead ash trees and split out some blanks and turned a set of new handles. These are all my Addis tools that deserve good handles. I fooled around until I made one I liked and was comfortable in my hand. Then I had to change the size to fit in the drawer! Not much, so they are still comfortable. Notice that there are flats prominent to prevent rolling around. The ends are nicely rounded and push very comfortably. The blade end of the handle has a nice from that keeps the tension hand in position comfortably too. This handle makes it easy to sense tiny rotational movements because of its larger diameter. All in all, I put a lot of thought into them. Ah madem and Ah likes em.

I have a chunk of basswood that I am laying out a Gibbons type of vertical vegetation display set in a carved urn. It will take the better part of a year to complete because I cannot work full time at it. But I will post updates from time to time.

One of the destination drawers:

Food Cuisine Animal product Wood Ingredient


Just finished turning. Notice the split piece representing the source of the wood.

Wood Natural material Tool Gas Composite material


DanK
 

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#2 ·
New Carving and Turning handles

Move over Grinling Gibbons. Have tools will carve. Have carved. But I don't like the mishmash of handles that happens in an aggregated set. So I gathered up some dead ash trees and split out some blanks and turned a set of new handles. These are all my Addis tools that deserve good handles. I fooled around until I made one I liked and was comfortable in my hand. Then I had to change the size to fit in the drawer! Not much, so they are still comfortable. Notice that there are flats prominent to prevent rolling around. The ends are nicely rounded and push very comfortably. The blade end of the handle has a nice from that keeps the tension hand in position comfortably too. This handle makes it easy to sense tiny rotational movements because of its larger diameter. All in all, I put a lot of thought into them. Ah madem and Ah likes em.

I have a chunk of basswood that I am laying out a Gibbons type of vertical vegetation display set in a carved urn. It will take the better part of a year to complete because I cannot work full time at it. But I will post updates from time to time.

One of the destination drawers:

Food Cuisine Animal product Wood Ingredient


Just finished turning. Notice the split piece representing the source of the wood.

Wood Natural material Tool Gas Composite material


DanK
Beautiful, I wish I could turn like you do.
 

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#3 ·
New Carving and Turning handles

Move over Grinling Gibbons. Have tools will carve. Have carved. But I don't like the mishmash of handles that happens in an aggregated set. So I gathered up some dead ash trees and split out some blanks and turned a set of new handles. These are all my Addis tools that deserve good handles. I fooled around until I made one I liked and was comfortable in my hand. Then I had to change the size to fit in the drawer! Not much, so they are still comfortable. Notice that there are flats prominent to prevent rolling around. The ends are nicely rounded and push very comfortably. The blade end of the handle has a nice from that keeps the tension hand in position comfortably too. This handle makes it easy to sense tiny rotational movements because of its larger diameter. All in all, I put a lot of thought into them. Ah madem and Ah likes em.

I have a chunk of basswood that I am laying out a Gibbons type of vertical vegetation display set in a carved urn. It will take the better part of a year to complete because I cannot work full time at it. But I will post updates from time to time.

One of the destination drawers:

Food Cuisine Animal product Wood Ingredient


Just finished turning. Notice the split piece representing the source of the wood.

Wood Natural material Tool Gas Composite material


DanK
Wow… Absolutely Wow… I have a set of six chisel handles I'd like to turn, but resist because making them match is beyond my confidence rating. Your work is inspiring!
 

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New Carving and Turning handles

Move over Grinling Gibbons. Have tools will carve. Have carved. But I don't like the mishmash of handles that happens in an aggregated set. So I gathered up some dead ash trees and split out some blanks and turned a set of new handles. These are all my Addis tools that deserve good handles. I fooled around until I made one I liked and was comfortable in my hand. Then I had to change the size to fit in the drawer! Not much, so they are still comfortable. Notice that there are flats prominent to prevent rolling around. The ends are nicely rounded and push very comfortably. The blade end of the handle has a nice from that keeps the tension hand in position comfortably too. This handle makes it easy to sense tiny rotational movements because of its larger diameter. All in all, I put a lot of thought into them. Ah madem and Ah likes em.

I have a chunk of basswood that I am laying out a Gibbons type of vertical vegetation display set in a carved urn. It will take the better part of a year to complete because I cannot work full time at it. But I will post updates from time to time.

One of the destination drawers:

Food Cuisine Animal product Wood Ingredient


Just finished turning. Notice the split piece representing the source of the wood.

Wood Natural material Tool Gas Composite material


DanK
I've developed something of a wood handle fetish since buying my lathe and I'm working my way up to your skill level, well done.
 

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#5 ·
New Carving and Turning handles

Move over Grinling Gibbons. Have tools will carve. Have carved. But I don't like the mishmash of handles that happens in an aggregated set. So I gathered up some dead ash trees and split out some blanks and turned a set of new handles. These are all my Addis tools that deserve good handles. I fooled around until I made one I liked and was comfortable in my hand. Then I had to change the size to fit in the drawer! Not much, so they are still comfortable. Notice that there are flats prominent to prevent rolling around. The ends are nicely rounded and push very comfortably. The blade end of the handle has a nice from that keeps the tension hand in position comfortably too. This handle makes it easy to sense tiny rotational movements because of its larger diameter. All in all, I put a lot of thought into them. Ah madem and Ah likes em.

I have a chunk of basswood that I am laying out a Gibbons type of vertical vegetation display set in a carved urn. It will take the better part of a year to complete because I cannot work full time at it. But I will post updates from time to time.

One of the destination drawers:

Food Cuisine Animal product Wood Ingredient


Just finished turning. Notice the split piece representing the source of the wood.

Wood Natural material Tool Gas Composite material


DanK
Wow, Nice job thanks for sharing
 

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#6 ·
New Carving and Turning handles

Move over Grinling Gibbons. Have tools will carve. Have carved. But I don't like the mishmash of handles that happens in an aggregated set. So I gathered up some dead ash trees and split out some blanks and turned a set of new handles. These are all my Addis tools that deserve good handles. I fooled around until I made one I liked and was comfortable in my hand. Then I had to change the size to fit in the drawer! Not much, so they are still comfortable. Notice that there are flats prominent to prevent rolling around. The ends are nicely rounded and push very comfortably. The blade end of the handle has a nice from that keeps the tension hand in position comfortably too. This handle makes it easy to sense tiny rotational movements because of its larger diameter. All in all, I put a lot of thought into them. Ah madem and Ah likes em.

I have a chunk of basswood that I am laying out a Gibbons type of vertical vegetation display set in a carved urn. It will take the better part of a year to complete because I cannot work full time at it. But I will post updates from time to time.

One of the destination drawers:

Food Cuisine Animal product Wood Ingredient


Just finished turning. Notice the split piece representing the source of the wood.

Wood Natural material Tool Gas Composite material


DanK
Wow Dan, I'm impressed you have been a busy beaver! That will be a sharp set! ( pun intended)
An interesting form for a carving handle. A cross between the pfiel and the usual smoth handles. I can imagine the hexagon shape wold add control to the grip.
 

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#7 ·
Brass ferrules arrived

Today I received the brass flare caps that will become the ferrules. The handles all have several coats of oil finish and just glow with an invitation to pick them up. These caps were $0.59 each! The cheapest big box price was $1.19.
http://www.installationpartssupply.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Category_code=fittings-brass-flare-cap#.UUO3GPV1N8F Says they're back ordered, but I got them within two weeks. After contacting them, they told me they normally don't stock them, but will be happy to get as many as I wanted.
Auto part Metal Fashion accessory Artifact Wood

So, now to find the time to fit things up. Would you turn off the hex shoulders or leave them?
DanK
 

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Brass ferrules arrived

Today I received the brass flare caps that will become the ferrules. The handles all have several coats of oil finish and just glow with an invitation to pick them up. These caps were $0.59 each! The cheapest big box price was $1.19.
http://www.installationpartssupply.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Category_code=fittings-brass-flare-cap#.UUO3GPV1N8F Says they're back ordered, but I got them within two weeks. After contacting them, they told me they normally don't stock them, but will be happy to get as many as I wanted.
Auto part Metal Fashion accessory Artifact Wood

So, now to find the time to fit things up. Would you turn off the hex shoulders or leave them?
DanK
Nice looking handle. Maybe try rounding one, and compare it to see if you like it. I bet they would be fine either way. But they sort of play off the octagonal london type pattern.
 

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Handles are finished and mounted

I finally finished the carving gouge handle project. These are mostly Addis blades a couple Buck Brothers This represents about half of my total collection, so I am well equipped to move ahead on some SERIOUS carving projects. The other half consists of newer Pfeil gouges and some miniature gouges and chisels. As noted before, I'm planning a Grinling Gibbons style carving and this is a major step towards beginning work. I have some experiments to perform to test procedure and material. The design elements need to be sketched out to work the details satisfactorily. I'll post progress pictures now and then in a new blog series.

Dishware Body jewelry Circle Wood Jewellery


Anybody interested in the old handles?

Musical instrument Wood Idiophone Jewellery Circle
 

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#15 ·
Handles are finished and mounted

I finally finished the carving gouge handle project. These are mostly Addis blades a couple Buck Brothers This represents about half of my total collection, so I am well equipped to move ahead on some SERIOUS carving projects. The other half consists of newer Pfeil gouges and some miniature gouges and chisels. As noted before, I'm planning a Grinling Gibbons style carving and this is a major step towards beginning work. I have some experiments to perform to test procedure and material. The design elements need to be sketched out to work the details satisfactorily. I'll post progress pictures now and then in a new blog series.

Dishware Body jewelry Circle Wood Jewellery


Anybody interested in the old handles?

Musical instrument Wood Idiophone Jewellery Circle
Nice carving set up…nice handles too!
 

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Osage orange gloat--handle stock?

I have the distinct privilege to have been in the right place at the right time. One of my "hobbies" is to operate farm equipment, so I've become good friends with a large farm operation not too far away. They agreed with the neighbors to take out an ancient common hedge patch and recover about 20 acres of farm ground. I stumbled into the operation as it began and asked what was to become of all those giant hedge trees. Well, they were just going to burn them, and the fires had already been started. It turns out an acquaintance of mine was running the bulldozer and giant backhoe. I flagged him down and asked if I could harvest some of the trees he was going to burn, so he sort of reluctantly agreed. (People like me hold up their operation and make more work for them). I marked the ones I wanted and he kindly set them aside so I could cut them up. Then he went so far as to push the cut logs into piles and pushed all the brush over to his fire. I couldn't keep up with them, so I only got 2/3 of what was out there.

I'd never seen such in all my wanderings around the country. The cut logs average about 20" in diameter and range from 6' to 12' long. If you know anything about osage orange, a 6' straight piece is just plain uncommon, let along a 12' piece! I just delivered 24 giant logs to the sawyer, and there are 21 more smaller logs not going to be sawn. This is the operation in a small window of good weather and very hard frozen ground:
Sky Tire Wheel Vehicle Car


They don't look so big until you get closer:
Tire Wheel Sky Vehicle Car


Here you can see what I mean about not straight. You have to put them through a straightener before you can deliver them to the sawmill. So the loaded logs had been through the "straightener", and these are next. The "straightener" is a 16" Stihl chain saw cutting at the curves to get maximum straightness. Some of these logs were over 30' long before "straightening".
Sky Wood Plain Grass Landscape


I don't have pictures of the remaining 21 logs, and as of tonight they remain in the field. I might have been able to retrieve them, but I ran out of daylight. They have to be hauled through a deep ravine and conditions have to be just right for that to happen. I spent all day Wednesday using a "Clydesdale" (JD8400) to drag these logs through the ravine and across the field to the closest road. According to the weather forecast it is going to be awhile before I can retrieve them.

So, if you need mallets, handles, or material for outdoor stuff (this stuff does not rot) let me know. Based on what I've had to give to harvest this treasure, it's going to be something like $10 bd ft., still about half of what you pay any where I've been able to find the rare stuff.
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DanK
 

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Osage orange gloat--handle stock?

I have the distinct privilege to have been in the right place at the right time. One of my "hobbies" is to operate farm equipment, so I've become good friends with a large farm operation not too far away. They agreed with the neighbors to take out an ancient common hedge patch and recover about 20 acres of farm ground. I stumbled into the operation as it began and asked what was to become of all those giant hedge trees. Well, they were just going to burn them, and the fires had already been started. It turns out an acquaintance of mine was running the bulldozer and giant backhoe. I flagged him down and asked if I could harvest some of the trees he was going to burn, so he sort of reluctantly agreed. (People like me hold up their operation and make more work for them). I marked the ones I wanted and he kindly set them aside so I could cut them up. Then he went so far as to push the cut logs into piles and pushed all the brush over to his fire. I couldn't keep up with them, so I only got 2/3 of what was out there.

I'd never seen such in all my wanderings around the country. The cut logs average about 20" in diameter and range from 6' to 12' long. If you know anything about osage orange, a 6' straight piece is just plain uncommon, let along a 12' piece! I just delivered 24 giant logs to the sawyer, and there are 21 more smaller logs not going to be sawn. This is the operation in a small window of good weather and very hard frozen ground:
Sky Tire Wheel Vehicle Car


They don't look so big until you get closer:
Tire Wheel Sky Vehicle Car


Here you can see what I mean about not straight. You have to put them through a straightener before you can deliver them to the sawmill. So the loaded logs had been through the "straightener", and these are next. The "straightener" is a 16" Stihl chain saw cutting at the curves to get maximum straightness. Some of these logs were over 30' long before "straightening".
Sky Wood Plain Grass Landscape


I don't have pictures of the remaining 21 logs, and as of tonight they remain in the field. I might have been able to retrieve them, but I ran out of daylight. They have to be hauled through a deep ravine and conditions have to be just right for that to happen. I spent all day Wednesday using a "Clydesdale" (JD8400) to drag these logs through the ravine and across the field to the closest road. According to the weather forecast it is going to be awhile before I can retrieve them.

So, if you need mallets, handles, or material for outdoor stuff (this stuff does not rot) let me know. Based on what I've had to give to harvest this treasure, it's going to be something like $10 bd ft., still about half of what you pay any where I've been able to find the rare stuff.
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DanK
You are a lucky man Dan. One look at my projects will tell you I love the stuff. I wish I was closer but I know how heavy it is and shipping would kill me.
Please enjoy it for me. :)
 

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#40 ·
jig to speed things up

The turned handles that I use in my shop start with an octagon blank that has taken up to 3 hours to prepare an accurate one. This jig is designed to reduce that time to mere minutes. I start with a split blank and in just a few minutes with this jig end up with a perfect octagon blank. The jig will also accommodate a taper up to 30" long. What you can't see in the picture is a runner that runs in the miter slot.
Wood Gas Composite material Engineering Machine tool

Wood Machine tool Gas Engineering Tool


Dank
 

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#41 ·
jig to speed things up

The turned handles that I use in my shop start with an octagon blank that has taken up to 3 hours to prepare an accurate one. This jig is designed to reduce that time to mere minutes. I start with a split blank and in just a few minutes with this jig end up with a perfect octagon blank. The jig will also accommodate a taper up to 30" long. What you can't see in the picture is a runner that runs in the miter slot.
Wood Gas Composite material Engineering Machine tool

Wood Machine tool Gas Engineering Tool


Dank
What a time saver and a great jig idea, thank you for sharing
 

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