Show us your modified tools!

**ElizaLeahy** · 27th March 2009, 08:58 AM

Lots of talk about modified tools - but how about showing them?

Can we please see them from several angles, and maybe tell us how you made them?

Thanks!

**robutacion** · 27th March 2009, 12:49 PM

Originally Posted by ElizaLeahy

Lots of talk about modified tools - but how about showing them?

Can we please see them from several angles, and maybe tell us how you made them?

Thanks!

Eliza,
Gees... how long do you want this thread to be?

Are you interested on any modified and hand made tools (gouges, chisels, etc?) or you are looking into modified, hand shaped to cut specific designs in the timber?

Just trying to "trim" down the tool types you are after!

Cheers

RBTCO

**ElizaLeahy** · 27th March 2009, 05:07 PM

Both!

Tools modified to make particular cuts and tools made out of other tools.

Give us newbies something extra to add to our "to do" list.

**hughie** · 27th March 2009, 06:33 PM

Liza,

Theres that much on the subject I am thinking of writing an Ebook on it.

**Ad de Crom** · 27th March 2009, 07:33 PM

Eliza, think you mean own made stuff, isn't it.
Made for my hollowing rig HSS tooltip, as well as the hollowing rig itself with a range of 300mm. Also a own made multi facenet scraper.
Do all my hollowings with my hollowing rig.
Ad

**BobL** · 27th March 2009, 07:59 PM

Tool rests and Chuck Jaws

More chuck jaws

Steady

Apricot handled skew.

Apricot handle parting tool.

Carbide tool tipped rougher.

Have made a few more but no pics.

**Skew ChiDAMN!!** · 27th March 2009, 08:04 PM

Oooer! Talk about opening a can of worms!

**new_guy90** · 27th March 2009, 08:54 PM

Originally Posted by BobL

Tool rests and Chuck Jaws

More chuck jaws

Steady

Apricot handled skew.

Apricot handle parting tool.

Carbide tool tipped rougher.

Have made a few more but no pics.

oh god this thread is going to get heaps of these Carbide tipped tools

..... sorry but i think they should be in the same boat as an old file, could work but be very careful!!!!!! oh and Bob yours is not a turning insert but a milling insert but if it works then cool

damn i entered this thread on a pet hate!!!!!!!!!!!!!! anyway nice tools everyone i liked the apricot tool handles and the chuck jaws

as for me all i have made is a thin parting blade out of an old saw blade, also have an old power hacksaw blade i can use latter for it oh and on that point the Japanese wood turners make there own tools and i have seen them use old saw power hacksaw blades as scrapers. i also had a small file that i ground to a special scraper worked well but i never abused it and don't really need it anymore now i have a detail gouge (made a handle for it) and more tool steel.

yeah got to love home made tools good thread

Patrick

**Skew ChiDAMN!!** · 27th March 2009, 09:38 PM

Well... now that I have my Ripsnorter from Hughie, I can honestly say I have more hand made Oland tools than commercial bowl gouges.

But to throw a few other concepts into the mix...

I've made some sphere-turning tools of various sizes, which are basically just steel pipe wedged onto the end of the handle. The whole of the edge of the pipe is used when cutting... they make an ear-jarring noise but gives a nice finish and a near perfect sphere every time.

Concrete nails make for great detailing tools, just driven into the end of a handle and the ends sharpened to whatever profile you want. With the tip bent into a right-angle, they're great for cleaning up undercuts or small vees where larger tools don't quite fit...

Chatter tools: just broken hacksaw blades fitted into a slot cut into the end of a handle. (Errrm... with the teeth ground off, first!) And a texturing tool made from an old idler sprocket.

No photos... not w/out going into the shed and conducting a search and rescue.

**TTIT** · 27th March 2009, 11:26 PM

Originally Posted by Skew ChiDAMN!!

Oooer! Talk about opening a can of worms!

Ain't that the truth - easier for me just to point to this page

**hughie** · 28th March 2009, 08:05 AM

Ain't that the truth -

Yup! probably half of my turning gear are in house designs if not more, not too mention gadgets to attach on to the lathe etc

Heres a few from the collection, if we all contributed it would the biggest and longest thread ever by far. This forum has a lot of very innovative and inventive members who have amazing abilities in lateral thinking.

You could call it it a think tank for wood turning.

https://www.woodworkforums.com/f8/cole-jaws-2-a-41169
https://www.woodworkforums.com/f8/diy-lathe-70958
https://www.woodworkforums.com/f8/protractor-sharpening-jig-73053
https://www.woodworkforums.com/f8/el-cheapo-tool-rest-71166
https://www.woodworkforums.com/f8/3-1-thread-chaser-61142
https://www.woodworkforums.com/f8/hole-punch-sanding-discs-66063
https://www.woodworkforums.com/f8/longworth-chuck-polycarbonate-54412
https://www.woodworkforums.com/f8/home-lathe-53366

**joe greiner** · 28th March 2009, 08:10 PM

**Sawdust Maker** · 29th March 2009, 08:24 PM

Originally Posted by hughie

Yup! probably half of my turning gear are in house designs if not more, not too mention gadgets to attach on to the lathe etc

Heres a few from the collection, if we all contributed it would the biggest and longest thread ever by far. This forum has a lot of very innovative and inventive members who have amazing abilities in lateral thinking.

You could call it it a think tank for wood turning.

https://www.woodworkforums.com/f8/cole-jaws-2-a-41169
https://www.woodworkforums.com/f8/diy-lathe-70958
https://www.woodworkforums.com/f8/protractor-sharpening-jig-73053
https://www.woodworkforums.com/f8/el-cheapo-tool-rest-71166
https://www.woodworkforums.com/f8/3-1-thread-chaser-61142
https://www.woodworkforums.com/f8/hole-punch-sanding-discs-66063
https://www.woodworkforums.com/f8/longworth-chuck-polycarbonate-54412
https://www.woodworkforums.com/f8/home-lathe-53366

Hughie

you've got an unfinished tool in there
10 demerits

**hughie** · 29th March 2009, 11:40 PM

you've got an unfinished tool in there
10 demerits

oops! I claim immunity on the grounds of "no permanent abode"

**Grumpy John** · 30th March 2009, 06:22 AM

Here are some centres I modified for .

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