How To Make Lathe Tool Handles

To assemble the tool you absolutely want to have the ferrule in place before setting the tool in the handle.

How to make lathe tool handles. I first reduced the diameter of one end until the ferrule would just tap on tightly. Now youre ready to mount the tool to your new handle. Use the tailstock hand crank to feed the drill bit into the handle.

Now that you have the ferrule set glue if necessary test the fit of the spacers and tang in the tool handle. -use a piece of copper pipe as a ferrule when the tool inserts into the wood handle. Making your own tool handles on the lathe is a really fun projects.

There are a lot of videos of guys showing how they make their own tools watch them and you will get some good ideasthen perfect a process that matches your needs and abilities. Put on a full-face shield and set the lathes speed between 400 and 600 rpm. The next part was the most difficult.

It amounts to turning a spindle drilling a hole to accept the tool and then using epoxy to hold it in place. Push the tool into the handle. There should be little or no ghosting at the ferrule end.

Im going to be making some handles for a couple of different kitchen tools however you could use the same concepts to make handles for chisels files knives - or whatever you need. A file on it with the lathe run-ning about 1000 rpm. Place the handles pilot hole against the bit bring up the tailstock and lock it.

Time to mount one of the billets in the lathe and make a handle. Turn on the lathe and check to see that the handle runs true. Ad Easy to Use - Laser Fits in Spindle 4-Axis 00002 resolutn Fast Setup.