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[lrr]

Bill in Buena Park, and I , must be twins that were separated at birth. I use the EXACT same procedures for spindle turning.

But BiBP must have started out with a bigger lathe. One week after I bought my lathe, I went back and bought the 20" bed extension. After adding a 4-jaw chuck, and then needing a Jacobs chuck with bit in the tailstock, I had no room for a piece of wood! With the bed extension, I can turn tall peppermills and use long Forstner bits to bore them, and have space left over between the chucks.

[Bill in Buena Park]

Bill - thanks for the step by step on the handles. What are your thoughts (for square bars) on making the handle of two pieces with void for the bar cut in the halves before glued.

Mike

I was actually thinking about trying (read: experiment with) this the next time I have to mount another square shaft in a handle. Its a totally viable approach, but I'd have to try it to really form an opinion.

The dados in each side would be routed in with a straight bit, and that would potentially leave a little hemispherical "chamber" under the square end of the tool shaft - the shaft should epoxy in the same, just want to make doubly sure that there's enough epoxy to fill that chamber, secure the bottom of the shaft, and have enough to bond the shaft the entire length of the hole.

I tend to think I'd not be able to hide the glue line/grain mismatch caused by material lost to the saw kerf (but that might be an non-issue), so might want to put an accent strip in between to "pretty it up", but not sure I'd like it much unless I added another feature, such as Lee has done with his handles.

[Bill in Buena Park]

Bill in Buena Park, and I , must be twins that were separated at birth. I use the EXACT same procedures for spindle turning.

But BiBP must have started out with a bigger lathe. One week after I bought my lathe, I went back and bought the 20" bed extension. After adding a 4-jaw chuck, and then needing a Jacobs chuck with bit in the tailstock, I had no room for a piece of wood! With the bed extension, I can turn tall peppermills and use long Forstner bits to bore them, and have space left over between the chucks.

Lee,
I would have had the same issue. Within a month of owning my 1018 lathe, I went out and bought the extension bed as well, giving me a little over 38in capacity between the centers. The HF34706 I just added has ~34 inches out of the box (acquired for bowl work primarily), but I'll likely keep using the 1018 for spindles.

[Bill in Buena Park]

Good write up Bill in Buena Park!
I especially like your use of credit cards to clean up glue. Finally a sensable use for them that won't get you in trouble.
capncarl

Cap,
Many years ago I learned to live debt free and without credit from a fellow by the name of Dave Ramsey. I can't agree more this is the best use of the plastic, along with use as a glue applicator, epoxy mixer, accent material for segmented pens, guitar picks...

[MBG]

I was actually thinking about trying (read: experiment with) this the next time I have to mount another square shaft in a handle. Its a totally viable approach, but I'd have to try it to really form an opinion.

The dados in each side would be routed in with a straight bit, and that would potentially leave a little hemispherical "chamber" under the square end of the tool shaft - the shaft should epoxy in the same, just want to make doubly sure that there's enough epoxy to fill that chamber, secure the bottom of the shaft, and have enough to bond the shaft the entire length of the hole.

I tend to think I'd not be able to hide the glue line/grain mismatch caused by material lost to the saw kerf (but that might be an non-issue), so might want to put an accent strip in between to "pretty it up", but not sure I'd like it much unless I added another feature, such as Lee has done with his handles.

After reading your response I'm thinking round hole is simpler and much faster to produce. I recently made a couple of handles, my first, for a Thompson 1/2" spindle gouge, and 3/8" detail gouge (stealth gloat) and bored the holes on the lathe and they came out great.

Mike

[Bill in Buena Park]

...Thompson 1/2" spindle gouge, and 3/8" detail gouge (stealth gloat)...

Thompson - nice! "Welcome to a new level of professional wood turning tools"