Today I'm working on my tool rest and a handle for a gouge. I ordered a single 1/2" bowl gouge from Hurricane, and it came with no handle.
I can make an aluminum handle, but I would rather use wood because it has a wonderful quality aluminum doesn't have. It's free.
Is there a secret to making handles? I figured I would just make a straightish cylinder with a hole in the end for the gouge. I am not sure how deep the hole should be, or for that matter, what the diameter should be. The gouge has a tiny shoulder on it, so I figure that's as far into the wood as it should go.
I think I have a brass tube somewhere I can use for a ferrule.
How do you get the handle and the gouge together? Do I put the sharp end of the gouge on a piece of soft wood and bang on the end of the wooden handle? I have a shop press.
I can make an aluminum handle, but I would rather use wood because it has a wonderful quality aluminum doesn't have. It's free.
Is there a secret to making handles? I figured I would just make a straightish cylinder with a hole in the end for the gouge. I am not sure how deep the hole should be, or for that matter, what the diameter should be. The gouge has a tiny shoulder on it, so I figure that's as far into the wood as it should go.
I think I have a brass tube somewhere I can use for a ferrule.
How do you get the handle and the gouge together? Do I put the sharp end of the gouge on a piece of soft wood and bang on the end of the wooden handle? I have a shop press.
Making a Gouge Handle
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