Clean handles

[nz_carver]

ok hope some one can help

now with a line of carving tools thats as big as mine i worked out it takes a lot to look after thems

now i use around 95% Pfeil
the other 5% are a mix
now i love the Pfeil

BUT i worked out that even with clean hands and clean work, the handels on them get all dirty and your hand starts to slip

now i now i dont just do it for me other people i know with thm it do the same

now i did think sanpaper at 1st to clean them but over time id end up with no handle at all

so is there anyone that can help wht can i use to clean them thats not going to stuff them up???

[underfoot]

the handels on them get all dirty

geez nz, do you iron your sheets too?
chisel handles MUST build up a healthy patina before you can be taken seriously

oh yeah, cotton gloves prevent ' BSHTWCHSSAHDRWNB' syndrome
(black stains on high tannin wood due to a combination of holding steel chisel with sweaty acidic hands because you drank too much red wine the night before) syndrome

[Frank&Earnest]

Touche'. I do not iron my sheets but I have slept in ironed sheets all my life.

It is therefore appropriate that I feel the same way about Pfeil chisels. Being a traditionalist, I dip them in linseed oil and build up the "patina" (crud for the uninitiated)
For the impatient young, polyurethane might be a solution?

[artme]

[underfoot]

For the impatient young, polyurethane might be a solution?

no no no,
have you ever seen the wood hand rails in old schools?
its the patination of years of sweaty adolescent hands, no polyeurethane can reproduce that.
the correct surface finish for chisel handles is a combination of sweat, various wood gums,a little blood etc, all applied by years of use.

anyway, I'm off to shampoo my chainsaw.

[movay_2008]

There is a product by Feast Watson called woodclean. For a window cleaner I mix 10% ammonia, 10%metho and 80% water. You might try that at a higher concentration with a bit of fine steel wool, but give it a bit of oil after.

[Frank&Earnest]

no no no,
have you ever seen the wood hand rails in old schools?
its the patination of years of sweaty adolescent hands, no polyeurethane can reproduce that.
the correct surface finish for chisel handles is a combination of sweat, various wood gums,a little blood etc, all applied by years of use.

Of course, I suggested polyurethane as a means to avoid the patina, if that is what the impatient youth wants. Me and my cryptic expression, again!

no no no,
anyway, I'm off to shampoo my chainsaw

adding conditioner, no doubt?

[Artesano]

..chisel handles MUST build up a healthy patina before you can be taken seriously

ooops...I' ve just looked at mine- the bastards are CLEAN !- and some of them have 10 years of use...12, now that I think about it...I'm innocent, Your Honour , never cleaned them !

.....I'm off to get them dirty right now

[Frank&Earnest]

ooops...I' ve just looked at mine- the bastards are CLEAN !- and some of them have 10 years of use...12, now that I think about it...I'm innocent, Your Honour , never cleaned them !

.....I'm off to get them dirty right now

Scrape off the polyurethane coating, will you?