Mark Kosmowski
Member
- Messages
- 1,456
- Location
- Central (upstate) NY
It is a bad idea to shape the end of a spindle too close to the 90 degree mark with a skew. In fact, for me, I shouldn't do more than round off the curve at the end to about 45 degrees or so with a skew.
How many attempts to shape my handle end did it take me to learn this? Once? Nope. Twice? Nope. Surely, by the end of three attempts resulting in butchering a bit of my end I learned not to do this. Nope, I tried a fourth time, had the same result of the skew riding up onto the rest of my handle. Then I just cleaned up the mess and decided to take a break.
I've lost about 4" of handle length from my stupidity. I did compare one of my Harbor Freight chisel handles to what is left of the handle I am working on, and it looks like the one I am working on will be just about right, but won't leave any extra.
Oh well. Free wood, utility project, it'll still work, so cheap lesson.
How many attempts to shape my handle end did it take me to learn this? Once? Nope. Twice? Nope. Surely, by the end of three attempts resulting in butchering a bit of my end I learned not to do this. Nope, I tried a fourth time, had the same result of the skew riding up onto the rest of my handle. Then I just cleaned up the mess and decided to take a break.
I've lost about 4" of handle length from my stupidity. I did compare one of my Harbor Freight chisel handles to what is left of the handle I am working on, and it looks like the one I am working on will be just about right, but won't leave any extra.
Oh well. Free wood, utility project, it'll still work, so cheap lesson.