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That’s a pretty nice non-turned turning, and a pretty slick project. Where did you get the badger hair?

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very cool….do you sell these..I would love to get one

-- Todd, Oak Ridge, TN, Hello my name is Todd and I'm a Toolholic, I bought my last tool 10 days, no 4 days, oh heck I bought a tool on the way here! †

I you have a drill press, you have a lathe…sort of. Dowel center acts as the tail stock with the drill as the head stock. Mount your stock to be turned, align a steel rod or even a dowel next to your turning to act as the tool rest, and go for it. You would be suprised at how much you can get done this way. You can even use a rasp as the tool if you can slow it down enough. Lathe tools work better.
For a demo in a speech class years ago, I used a battery powered drill as my headstock and a nail through a board as the tail stock. Used a hose clamp to hold the drill down and went to town. A fun project and it probably did not take 20 minutes to fix the thing.

-- jstegall

Outstanding! Where do you find the badger hair?

Ryan

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I wanna know how did you hold the badger down long enough to pull it’s hair out?

Very nice. I have not seen one of these in about 25 years. What are the dimensions of the handle?

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Thanks for the posts. I bought the badger hair knots at The Golden Nib. Todd – Thanks for the offer, but I don’t sell them, just going to make a few for the whiskered folk in the family. John – Thanks for the tip on turning on the drill press, I may have to play around with that for the limited amount of turning that I’m doing. No country style french table legs on my drill press.
cpt_hammer – In Montana, we have badgers as indoor pets. I just have to collect it out of the vacuum.
ganders – The dimensions of the handle are 2 1/2 inches tall by 1 1/2 inches in diameter. The silvertip badger hair knot was a 24mm size, which a 1” forstner bit worked well for the inset for the knot.

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Rock on man! I like your design. I may have to make my next one a little more like yours. I like the “racing stripe.”