Skilsaw
6th May 2019, 05:19 PM
I was given this old dynalink 4 speed wood lathe by my stepfather who bought it new back in the late 90's and never used it, a couple of months back when I started getting back into wood work he offered it to me and today it got dropped off after I finally made some space to put it which is on an old work bench that was already in the garage when I first moved in to the property. Last time I did wood turning was back in 1990 in my last year of school. So once we got the lathe mounted and bolted down it was time to start it up and put some wood to it for its first time. So here is its first project a chisel handle for an old paring chisel I didn't succeed in replicating it accurately but was happy with it anyway.
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Starting to shape the handle
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This is the old handle that I was trying to replicate
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A bit of wire burning to break things up a bit
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A couple of coats of shellac followed by some beeswax polish to finish it off
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Lesson learnt here I should have drilled deeper with the last drill bit all it needed was another 5mm but nope I stupidly drove it home so I used some polyurethane glue to repair the small split and clamped it tight, it is the same glue I use for repairing plane handles and this chisel is only for paring so will never be struck with a mallet.
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Starting to shape the handle
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This is the old handle that I was trying to replicate
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A bit of wire burning to break things up a bit
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A couple of coats of shellac followed by some beeswax polish to finish it off
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Lesson learnt here I should have drilled deeper with the last drill bit all it needed was another 5mm but nope I stupidly drove it home so I used some polyurethane glue to repair the small split and clamped it tight, it is the same glue I use for repairing plane handles and this chisel is only for paring so will never be struck with a mallet.
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