tools with tangs in a interchangabe tool handle

[Ed Jarvis]

What king of adhesive will work in a adapter for holding a tool with a tang ?

 

[Steve Chaplin]

Epoxy works well. You can also hold square tangs in a collet.

 

[Ed Jarvis]

Where can I get a collet for square tangs?

 

[Sam Fleisher]

What kind of an adapter? A square tang scraper works fine in the Thompson handles which are similar to the adapters from Drozda. http://www.cindydrozda.com/html/Handle_Adapters.html

Just have to tighten the set screws on the flat.

 

[John Walls]

I picked up a couple, one from Boxmaster which is now owned/sold from D-Way. I have several scrapers and a skew with flat tang and they work great. I've also used handles I've made, drove it in the wood to fit a square into round hole, pulled them out and put epoxy in the hole, drive tang back in. So far they have all held.

 

[Gerald Lawrence]

Maybe not what you are looking for but the only one with square hole I have seen.
No telling what the size of the opening is.

Set with extendable handle

Single handle with tool

 

[robo hippy]

Ed, this is the method I use:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HCjFdcfyaQ


Another method I have seen is to drill a round hole, then use sections of a dowel to plug the sides of the hole. Both work, but I think my method is easier. Difficult to rip a round dowel. You can also just fill the sides with epoxy.

robo hippy

 

[Steve Chaplin]

Where can I get a collet for square tangs?

Here is one collet system, there are others too.

Collett Handle Systems – Robust Tools

 

[Lance Mirrer]

Sorby currently lists a Sovereign Tang Collet Adapter for square scrapers etc. (Link below)
I have adapters from them that are actually rectangular. Will post pic later.

Sovereign Tang Collet Adaptor (SOV-CT) - Robert Sorby Ltd

The SOV-CT ensures a firm fit for our many flat tang tools. Tools that fit this collet include square end scrapers, hardwood scrapers, round nose scrapers, diamond/side scrapers, curved scrapers and box scrapers, oval and standard skews, the standard and fluted parting tools and the spindle and...

robert-sorby.co.uk

 

[Rusty Nesmith]

What kind of an adapter? A square tang scraper works fine in the Thompson handles which are similar to the adapters from Drozda. http://www.cindydrozda.com/html/Handle_Adapters.html

Just have to tighten the set screws on the flat.

The ones Cindy Drozda sells are Thompson.

 

[Lance Mirrer]

The ones Cindy Drozda sells are Thompson

The handles Cindy sells are Thompsons. The adapter look like Holusak's, bit I couldn't find him referenced.

Packard Woodworks: The Woodturner's Source: Hosaluk Handles

 

[Rusty Nesmith]

The handles Cindy sells are Thompsons. The adapter look like Holusak's, bit I couldn't find him referenced.

Packard Woodworks: The Woodturner's Source: Hosaluk Handles

When I talked to Doug Thompson on the phone looking for adapters because they were not on his web site any longer, he said Cindy was selling them for him.

 

[Jonathan Harkins]

The ones Cindy Drozda sells are Thompson.

Yes, and they work well.

I've been using one in a tight fitting Osage Orange handle since picking it up at SWAT this summer. Friction fit only, no epoxy. Works great and easy to swap tools in / out.

It was new technology to me and I didn't want to go overboard untried. In hindsight. I wish that I had picked up a few more of them.

 

[Lance Mirrer]

When I talked to Doug Thompson on the phone looking for adapters because they were not on his web site any longer, he said Cindy was selling them for him.

Sound like you have a much better source than my old eyes!!! I didn't realize Doug sold those adapters. I did look at his Website before answering.