Home-made tools

[Doug Barratt]

As mentioned above here are a few photos of a couple of tools I made this weekend.

The first shows the round bars after initial shaping done with a 1mm cutting disc in a small hand held grinder.





They were then roughly shaped at the linisher.






Handles were turned, ferrules fitted & then asembled, final sharpening was done on the Pro edge.



Both have been given a test drive & work well.


Cheers.


Doug

  

[Bryan Milham]

Looks like a Skewegouge and a round Skew,, nice tidy tools you've made there, much shinier than mine.

[Doug Barratt]

Looks like a Skewegouge and a round Skew,

Forgot to say what they were 

As your rightly say a round skew for for small spindle type work, particularly pens & the Skewegouge which is a smaller version of one I made about 3 years ago from 3/4" bar. A really useful tool for many types of work this new one being more suitable for smaller more delicate work.


cheers.

Doug.

[thebowlerhattedturner]

Very nice indeed Doug,
                         I was watching a video on some website that showed Cindy Drozda using something similar so I will regrind my pointy tool to turn it into a cross between a spindle gouge without flute and a skew.
Eventually I will post the pictures here.
regards
John BHT

[woodndesign]

Doug, you've got two very nicely made and useful tools there for just the price of the HSS blanks, ferrules, timber and your time.

Cheers for sharing.

David

[Doug Barratt]

Thanks for the comments they left me wondering if a hollowing tool I made would be of interest.

I made this a couple of years ago





Ash handle, stainless ferrule, steel tool bar, an old bolt machined to make a cutter holder & give articulation & a Little brother cutting tip & shield.
This has worked quite well but has always been very aggressive in use & whilst pondering why I came to the conclusion that the cutting edge was too high & would be better if more inline with the center of the main bar.





So this afternoon I thought I`d see with the aid of a mate if we could come up with a better solution.

Here are a few photos of what we did.
Starting with a block of tool steel  the ¬_ shape was milled



Initial milling finished



After which the holes were drilled & taped & the ends radiused.
Reassembled the new articulated section looks like this.



Much more inline with the center of the bar & able to articulate nicely



I`m hoping to try it out tomorrow before doing any further fettling so I can see first what, if any, improvement it has made.

Cheers.

[Bryan Milham]

Doug,

Always room for more homemade tools, the more ideas to play with, the more creative we can become.

And a good work in progress, looking forward to your report after trying it out,

Thanks for the post.

[woodndesign]

Doug,

Sure looks like one nice tool, as good as any one could buy, it just needs the means to do it.

Cheers for sharing.  David

[John D Smith]

Hi Doug,
          The one thing I have found as well as getting the cutting edge on the centre line of the bar horizontally when articulating the cutting head you should try to get this also on the centre line of the bar vertically. I hope this makes sense.

                                                                                                             Regards John