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New Buck chisel handles

Don in Northern Arizona

>A week or so ago I asked a question about paring chisels and mentioned that I was going to turn some handles for a partial set of Buck socket paring chisels that I have. I tried to make them match the handles on my Buck tang chisels as shown on the far left. I used beech which was not original. I'm not sure what the original handles were made of but it is a closer grained wood that chipped and broke a bit too easily for way the previous owner used them. The finish is BLO and wipe-on gloss poly.

Don


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Don in Northern Arizona

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Nice work!

Rob Lee

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Paul in NJ

>Nice job with the handles. I think the handles at that time were made from apple. The wood on the ones I have look like the apple handles of my Disston saws.

Paul Dzioba

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Sweet! Nice work

Bill Houghton, Sebastopol, CA

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very timely

Tom Sontag - St. Louis

>I am about to embark on a siginifcant chisel handle episode. I take it that since these are to be paring chisels you have no plans on putting a ring over the ends.

I envy your turning consistency!

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Don in Northern Arizona

>Tom,

That is true. No rings on the originals either. Also, any resemblance between turning constitency and my work must be the result of an optical illusion, but I endeavor to perservere as Chief Dan George said.

Don

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Todd O. Cronkhite Maine Native, Presently Away

>I was thinking that perhaps you had a duplicator jig. Nice job.

Who's Chief Dan George?

T.O.

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Don in Northern Arizona

>Todd,

He was a Chief of one of the First Nations tribes in British Columbia and a great movie actor. My reference was to something his character said when he played Lone Watie in "The Outlaw Josie Wales." If you haven't seen it, rent it.

Don

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Chief Dan George *LINK*

Bruce, a MN Galoot

>a native american actor, figured prominently in Josey Wales, for starters...


Chief Dan George

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I'll bet that is what it is. Thanks, Paul

Don in Northern Arizona

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