Dick Sing video: Turning a tool handle

[Chris DeHut]

In this video, Dick Sing presents the viewers with the techniques to make custom, handcrafted tool handles on the wood lathe. Don't be content with the standard handles if they don't feel just right, make your own and put your personality into those handles.

View: https://youtu.be/Jj1VB6-O5Gg


Cheers!

Chris DeHut

 

[Gary Norton]

My Grandfather was an early employee of Fisher Body early 1900s, which became part of General Motors, I still have quite a few of his tools, some need new handles but I hate to remove the history.
They still work quite well plus I have about a dozen handmade planes from him and his toolbox.
From Wikipedia about Fisher Body
The company owned 160,000 acres (250 square miles or 650 km²) of timberland and used more wood, carpet, tacks, and thread than any other manufacturer in the world. It had more than 40 plants and employed more than 100,000 people, and pioneered many improvements in tooling and automobile design including closed all-weather bodies.