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In the "what's on your lathe" topic I mentioned that I had a piece of brass to make some ferrules. I made around 20 1"od and same for 3/4" od ferrules. Mostly hacksaw and file work and it sure made me wish I had a small metal lathe like Dan. A while back I turned some mallets for a local wood carver and he mentioned he'd like to have a set of handles as well. That's what the ferrules are for. I don't really like commission work but he was pretty adamant he wanted me to do them. Shot him what I thought was a high price and he increased how many he wanted, go figure. He wanted them out of Osage, same as his mallets. Fortunately I had enough to do them. The ferrules are a press fit and that takes some time to get right but once that's done the handles are a pretty simple profile. He said he wanted a set of matching handles, ended up to be 16 total. I told him "matching" was a relative term and there would be minor differences. He said that's why he want's hand made. It is his intention to only use them when he's demoing. 11 more to go, he doesn't know it but I intend to burn his name and a small graphic on the handles. The burn lines will be different on each one to help him identify them if the edge is hidden. Had a minor set back this morning though, blew a tire.
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I was visiting a good friend of mine at his engine machine shop. We were in the head reconditioning area and I noticed some valves in the scrap bucket. They had the thinnest stems I had ever seen before and I joke with him that he was working on toy engines now. Turns out a lot of the newer engines had thin stemmed valves. A light bulb went on and I said I bet I could make some awls from those and he gave me some to try out. They are so hard that a hacksaw just skated across them so I chucked them in the lathe and used a cut off wheel in a die grinder to get the heads off. I used an angle grinder while they were spinning to start the sharpening process. I was careful of the heat while grinding but was thinking the hot combustion gases they are surrounded by while the engine is dunning. They would discolor as any metal does with heat. I do have an old wet grinding wheel that next to never gets used so I used it just to be on the safe side. After grinding I brought them to a smooth 600 grit finish with sand paper. These measured out really close to 7/32 inches so I drilled a 13/64 hole in the handle wood for a press fit. I used some brass candle holders for the ferrule after straightening out the inside taper on the metal lathe. I installed the ferrule as a press fit and then drilled for the shaft and hammered the handle on with the shaft held between aluminum jaws in a vise to keep from marring it. Put it back on the lathe to finish turn it. I reverse chucked it to finish the handle end holding it by the ferrule after wrapping it with masking tape to protect it.
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