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TOOL HANDLE x HANDLE (TOOL) xx TOOL Firewood handles. Learn to use the lathe skew by making tool handles from inexpensive firewood. Use a golf ball as a file handle. Jig for drilling wood handles to accept the metal tang of a tool. Tip: Soak loose tool handles in engine oil to cause swelling. Wood turning your own lathe chisel tool handles is good practice for spindle turning. Garden tool check-up. Repairing broken tool handles. Fixing a stripped thread in a blind hole. Make your own wooden tool handles from straight-grained ash logs. Part 1. How to split billets from a green log, air dry the billets, and shape the handle. Make your own wooden tool handles from straight-grained ash logs. Part 2. How to secure a wooden handle to a tool head so it will never come loose. Non-slip grip for a tool handle is made from whipped cord. How to remove and replace the handle on a sledge, axe, maul, etc. (2 articles). How to repair broken handles on garden tools, remove rust, mend holes in a hose and repair a leaky outside faucet. Tip: Protect the handle of your ax or splitting maul with a piece of rubber hose. Tip: Use a copper pipe cap to protect chisel handles. How to replace a handle for a hammer, maul, sledgehammer, shovel or file. Tip shows how old paint brush handles can be used for shop-made spatulas, putty knives and scrapers. Tips on wrapping the handles of garden hand tools for both identification and protection. Tip: Use two-part epoxy to securely glue a replacement tool handle into place. Tip on installing a framing-hatchet handle on a framing-hammer head. Tip: Use layers of rubber bands to keep tools from sliding off a roof. Tip on wrapping the handles of hand-held power tools with tennis-racket grip tape. Tip on reinforcing wooden tool handles using heat-shrink tubing. Tip: How to make your own tool handles from an old mop, broom, or shovel handle. Uses metal end of a shotgun shell for ferrule. Tip: Use copper tubing end caps as ferrules for tool handles. Making ax handles from quarter-sawn tree logs about 42" long. Tips on how to fire-harden hickory tool handles. Tip: Use molten lead to form a pattern of the socket when replacing missing chisel handles. Tip on using dogfish sharkskin to cover tool handles. Tip: Form ferrules of any size on shop made handles using copper wire and solder. Homemade tool for truing the ends of shop made copper or brass ferrules. Steel pipe makes a better handle for high-speed steel bowl gouges. How to fabricate them. Method for securing hardwood handles to socket chisels when the taper is undersize. Tip on using copper pipe caps as ferrules on custom tool handles. Making and modifying wooden tool handles for improved comfort and control. Ideas for planes, chisels, handsaws, etc. Tip on fitting a tanged tool to a handle. Tip on wrapping tool handles with rope embedded in hot glue. Tip for applying a rubber or plastic handle over a wood or metal shaft. Tip suggests adding rubberbands to tool handles to provide an improved grip. The cutter's edge. A good axe is only as good as its handle. How to make your own axe handles from green ash or hickory. How to replace a wooden handle on a shovel. How to make plastic handles for files, screwdrivers and knives using Clear Cast liguid plastic. Tip: How to pry the broken end of a gouge out of the wooden handle. Tip: Use a sharpened washer as a wedge for an axe handle, hammer handle, etc. Tip: Tighten hammer handles by soaking in water and glycerine mixture. Tip: Burn a broken wooden handle out of a splitting maul or sledge hammer head by placing in woodstove overnight. Uses for dry corncobs. Includes clothes brush, pot & grill scrubber, seed-starter pots, lawn darts, tool handle, and tobacco pipe. How to remove the broken-off stub of a handle from the shaft of a shovel. Tip: Heat metal ferrules before trying to put them onto wooden tool handles. Tip: Making your own brass ferrules for the wooden handles of chisels. Tip: Convert round chisel handles to octagonal handles to prevent the tool from rolling off of a bench. Simply plane the round handle to an octagon shape. How to replace a broken tool handle in seven easy steps. How to refinish or replace handles on garden tools. How to hand-hew handles for hammers, axes, hatchets, etc. Tip: Use old engine oil to recondition the handles and metal ends on garden tools. Tip: Soak wooden handle tools like pick or mattock in a solution of turpentine and linseed oil to prevent the handle from coming loose. Tip: Wrap nylon-fiber strapping tape around tool handles to prevent breakage. How to put a new handle on an old shovel. Lengthen the life of sledgehammer and maul handles by wrapping with fiberglass. Save broken handles from sledge, axe, or ball bats. Use the wood to turn replacement handles for other tools. How to replace a broken handle on an axe, splitting maul or sledge. How to temporarily repair a cracked handle on a hammer. How to replace a hammer handle. Create custom handles for your tools by gluing blocks of scrap wood and turning them on a lathe. Make a file handle from an old paintbrush handle. Reuse old rubber stamps. Convert them into tool handles, lamp pulls, or small sanding blocks. How to maintain garden tools. How to sharpen edges and repair handles. Tips on applying tape to tool handles to provide a comfortable non-slip grip. Now is the time to recondition garden tools. Covers rust removal and handle replacement. Another way to recycle. Clever ways to use old garden hose in the shop. (1) Tool holders for screwdrivers, chisels, awls, lathe tools, etc. (2) Tool shields and handles. (3) A holder for starting nails and brads, and for holding cold chisels and punches. (4) Drill bit depth step. (5) Door stop. (6) Holder for scroll saw blades. Replacing an axe handle. Tip on setting new tool handles without damaging the temper of the steel tool. How to replace a hammer handle. Make your own finely crafted tool handles designed to fit your hand. Instructions given for file handle, palm handle, traditional handle, barrel handle, ferrules, and hoops. Repairing and maintaining long-handled garden tools. Covers basic steps for replacing a broken handle and for sharpening edges on hoes and shovels. Tip: How to attach the head of a mattock so it says on the wooden handle. How to replace the handle on a garden tool. Auxiliary handles for power tools make them easier to handle by arthritic woodworker. Tip on using heat to expand brass ferrules before fitting them onto tool handles. How to turn table legs. The do's and don'ts of spindle or between centers turning. Part 2. Coffee table legs and tool handles. Tip shows how to make a punch to indent a ferrule (cut from tubing) to keep the ferrule from coming loose on the handle. How to turn hardwood tool handles. Various handle shapes are illustrated. Simple friction drive method for holding small turning blanks. Use of the device is illustrated on an assortment of small item. (1) Light pulls. (2) Gun barrel for a model naval cannon. (3) Tool handles. (4) Chess pieces. (5) Chimney pot for a model house. Tip on cutting tool handle ferrules from thin-walled pipe using a woodworking lathe. Tool handle repair. How to reinforce an open tote-style handle or a closed saw-style handle. Tip proposes improving the grip on a smooth-handled tool by covering it with cord. Timber topics. Part 12. How to select wood for making tool handles, with emphasis on European ash and North American hickory. Chiseller's delight. How to restore rusted chisels and equip them with new wooden handles. New life for old tools. How to make and install new wooden handles on your chisels. Tip: Place a bicycle handlebar grip on your hammer handles. Tip on truing up short pieces of brass tubing or copper tubing for use as tool handle ferrules. How to make ferruled handles for tools from blocks of scrap wood and pieces of water pipe. Tip shows how to add an extra handle to the free end of a file by using a piece of garden hose. Tip: Apply a small metal screw-on cap to the end of a wooden chisel handle to prevent splitting. Tip: A coil spring inserted into the handle of a chisel will keep the tang securely held. Should also work for files and other tools with tangs. Tip on making tool handle ferrules from copper-pipe couplers. | |||||||||
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