Making a chatter tool?

Re: Making a chatter tool?

John Lucas

>John

I have made several. By far the easiest is to take a jig saw blade, grind the teeth off and clamp it in a pair of vice grips. Quick, easy and effective. Be sure to practice. It really only works on end grain and there is a learning curve.

below is a picture of 2 of my chatter tools. The top one is a mild steel bar that was cut with the jigsaw. I put a steel spacer from Lowes around the bar and drilled and tapped it. Then put a homemade knob in to hold the jigsaw blade.

The other uses a commercially made blade mounted in a homemade bar.

All hail the Toolmakers!

Dominic Greco in Sunny Richboro PA

>John,

Great design! And another tool that anyone can make.

I sure wish I knew how easy they were to make before I bought one a couple of years ago. But I had a gift certificate from Woodcraft burning a hole in my pocket and couldn't wait!

Just what I like to see,...good old fashioned Enginuity!

See ya around,

Dominic

Re: Making a chatter tool? *LINK*

Jean Michel

>HiJohn,

You can also go and see how Ken makes his, I have made two so far and they are easy to make and dirt cheap.

HTH,

Jean Michel


Ken Grunke's Chatter Tool

Re: Making a chatter tool?

Ray Taylor

>John,

I got mine from C.A. Savoy in the CAW club. He made them and they were quite inexpensive. Used to sell them at the beginning of the club meetings. I'm sure he'd be willing to share how he constructed them.

Ray

Re: Making a chatter tool?

John Lucas

>Jean micheal

I made one of Ken's and the blade kept coming loose so I cut the head off and installed the steel sleeve. The blade still rocks but seems to work OK.

I know CA well

John Trant (aka Boxes-n-Bowls)

>I am an active member of the CAW club and had forgotten that CA makes these. I guess I will take a look in his box of goodies at the next meeting and steal his design. I could actually *buy* one of his tools but I am sure the price is higher than the abundance of free material sitting in my shop.

Thanks for the reminder

John

Re: Making a chatter tool?

John Trant (aka Boxes-n-Bowls)

>Hi Jean,

His site is the only useful web site I found when I did a search.

Thanks,

John

Made a chatter tool

John Trant (aka Boxes-n-Bowls)

>With your offered information, I quickly made an excellent chatter tool as illustrated in the picture below. I cut a 1" slot into the end of a 5-1/2" length of 5/8" mild steel rod (Home Depot) using a thin cut-off blade. I drilled and tapped two holes for a pair of 10-32 set screws to hold the chatter blade. I used a pair of screws to prevent the chatter blade from rotating within the slot. The chattr blade was made from a 2-1/2" length of a 1/2" bandsaw blade. I ground off the teeth, ground a triangular tip and bent it up about 15 degrees. I tried it out and it works great!! I will reduce the length of the rod so that I can attach a wooden handle to make it a bit more attractive. It took less than an hour to fabricate, test, and modify.

Boy, that was fun! Thanks again to everyone.

John