I was scraping along nicely when all of a sudden...Jolt...Thump...Crack...EEK!! Well this wasn't one of those good tools it is just a HF but have I learned the importance of good handles. Oh by the way; no injuries thank goodness.
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I was scraping along nicely when all of a sudden...Jolt...Thump...Crack...EEK!! Well this wasn't one of those good tools it is just a HF but have I learned the importance of good handles. Oh by the way; no injuries thank goodness.
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Yow!! That is one scary looking mishap! Glad you came out of it without leaking red stuff all over everything!
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Dagnabit... but hey, looks like you may have a couple of pen blanks there.
Ernie
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Hummm. I have two bowl gouges I made handles for out of toobafours since that was all I had at the time. Now you have me rethinking that. Of course in the right situation I guess anything could fail.
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Thanks Ernie, I would not have thought of that, I've never done pens.Originally Posted by Ernie Nyvall
Dagnabit... but hey, looks like you may have a couple of pen blanks there.
Ernie
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I'd sure be careful Jeff, this came real close to serious. I'm only going to use hard wood making handles. I got to looking and I can't tell what this stuff is.
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Chris, I'm sure glad you weren't injured. I bet that got your attention
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Ok deep breath, cupajoe, stop shaking and turn, turn, turn.
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I can't say I've ever heard or seen of this particular one happening!! Scary...
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Glad you weren't hurt Christopher! New project....hardwood handle.....
Ken
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Wow, you got me freaked out now!! Glad you weren't hurt!
Corey
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Glad you weren't hurt Christopher. The ferrule saved the day.
I don't think I would make handles out of 2 X 4's . My brother made one out of a 2 by and it snapped in his hand when he had a catch. It splintered every which way when it went. He had was a couple of big time splinters for the doctor to take out.
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WOW, I've never had anything close to that happen. I hope it's not one of those things we all have happen or I'm going to start wearing Depends in the shop.
We get a lot of broken shovel handles at work and I tell everyone not to throw them away. I've used a couple already. I hardly had to do much more than cut off square, drill a hole, add a ferule and insert tool. They are usually made of ash or hickory so should be good. At least it should be better than a "toobafour"
And you say you were scraping when this happened? That's unusual. Whenever I've seen a scraper used in a demo or tape the handle is always higher then the cutting edge so if it starts to catch it simply "bounces" away from the wood. I'm trying to figure out how you did this so I don't do it.
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Glad no harm done to YOU!
Now you get a chance to build your own handle. That's a GOOD thing!
Bruce
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