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Posted by:
jim focht
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Date: November 12, 2004 11:58PM
i am building my first wood handle spinning rod. after turning the wood on a lathe, how do you drill the hole to fit the blank.? do you need to drill out the entire handle? thanx for the help. Re: wood handles
Posted by:
Michael Sledden
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Date: November 13, 2004 12:10AM
I think most guys drill the hole first and place the blank on a mandrel to finish the turning, which is the way I think I am going to do it from now on. What I ahve done before, was rough turn the blank till I could get it into my 3-jaw chuck. Then I would drill out the hole to the size I wanted using the lathe. Then I would bring my live center up to the hole in the blank and support that end. The wood handles I have done all have been split handles so the length of wood blank has not been very long. Re: wood handles
Posted by:
Travis Thompson
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Date: November 13, 2004 08:38AM
I do it with the jaw chuck and a jacobs chuck just as Michael has described. I think it works great but I have no drill press and no room for one Re: wood handles
Posted by:
Tom Kirkman
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Date: November 13, 2004 09:20AM
If the handle is very long, you should probably have bored the ID first and then turned the piece concentric around that bore. As it is, you're going to have to employ a steady rest probably, and bore in as far as you can from one end and then again from the other. If you lathe and chuck are very precise, this is not hard. If you don't own a very high quality lathe and chuck, then unmounting and remounting and hoping to have the bore from either end meet perfectly is a bit of a crap shoot. You can also look into using a lamp auger to bore long holes. If you have a woodworking supply shop near you they'll know what it is and how to use it. ......... Re: wood handles
Posted by:
Jesse Buky
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Date: November 13, 2004 04:23PM
Wood handles do not have to be bored all the way, you can turn your handle and then bore the top end about 3 or 4 inches and glue the blank in. Jesse Re: wood handles
Posted by:
Scott VanGuilder
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Date: November 14, 2004 08:11AM
I have started making some wood handles and for the rear portion of the handles I only drill to within the last 3/4" to 1" of the handle and glue it on. I use a drill as close to the size of the butt end of the blank as possible so that I don't have to build up as much to get a firm fit. The fore grip and the seat I drill a little smaller and ream so that I get a perfect fit to the blank and better sensitivity out of the rod. Sorry, only registered users may post in this forum.
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