[TheForge] While we're spring cleaning - chisel handles

[Jeff Wilson]

Craig,
This is the first time I've heard of changing chisel handles depending on 
the job.  Can't see the need for it personally.
Do you have a reference for the practice?  If you do feel the need then I'd 
suppose the best approach is just to bung the handle in.  Don't wedge or 
glue if you are planning to reuse the handle. Right?
Jeff

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Craig Schaefer" <calvinjean2 at comcast.net>
To: "Blacksmithing List Sponsored by ABANA" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, February 15, 2013 7:51 PM
Subject: [TheForge] While we're spring cleaning - chisel handles


> While I was cleaning out a toolbox, I ran across a socket chisel with no 
> handle.   Looked around the shop and found a suitable piece of zebra wood 
> and fashioned rough handle.
> How are the wood handles and chisel sockets supposed to be held together? 
> I can make the bevel match and knock the socket over the wood and get a 
> good friction fit, but should it be held with anything like epoxy or ?
> Also, I'm thinking that before final finishing of the handle, I could dry 
> it a while to shrink it as much as possible (the shop the wood came from 
> is already heated, can't get much drier) and then assemble.  Would that be 
> good enough?   I know they're supposed to be able to come apart for 
> different length of handles for the job at hand, unless one has enough of 
> the same size chisel for all the handle lengths.........
>
> Thanks,
>
> CraigS
> Gresham, OR
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