Woodturning a tool handle X 4

Hello, welcome to my channel again. In this video we're gonna make some tool handles, something that probably each and every one of the woodturning community is gonna do at some point, well most of them. The original idea for this video was for me to make four tool handles out of four different woods which I prepared, which is oak, and this is a wood that I haven't worked with before, which is called Koto, K-O-T-O, and I bought it recently, and I never worked with this wood before. It's quite interesting, it's very heavy, very dense, and what I read online, this is a wood from South Africa, and it's growing extinct, so I'm not sure how long this type of wood is gonna be available. Also, I have this piece of wood which is called Santos Mahogany, which is a fake mahogany, and it's a very nice wood. This piece actually came from a table leg, as you can probably guess from the shape of the piece of wood, and I was planning also to do one from pine, just because it's probably the most available wood beginner woodturners have access to, since you can buy this type of construction-grade pine in every store, but I'm not gonna do it. We will be making four tool handles, two of them are gonna be made from oak, which are already cut and prepared, from the Koto, and from the Santos Mahogany. So these are the tools that we're gonna be making the handles for. I bought these tools online, I will give you some more details in a second. As you can see, or not, just a little bit of organization here. These are four hollowing tools. Here we go. These are four hollowing tools. We have a straight tool, we have an angled tool, this is for larger hollowing projects, and we have the medium set, I believe, although I have to check because I'm not sure that I got the medium set and not the small set, but we'll check this later, it's not important at the moment. Also a straight tool and a curved tool. Now these tools I've bought online from George Watkins from the UK and obviously I will link below the video his site and the page where you can purchase these tools. They were very reasonably priced and I've seen videos of him turning hollow forms with those tools and they seem to work very very nicely, so that's that. And of course in the future I'll also upload a video or a few videos of hollow forms I will make with these tools. Other things and materials that we're going to use in this project would be obviously some epoxy glue, some copper pipe pieces that I bought. Of course you can buy a whole copper pipe and then cut it to pieces, but since I found these in different sizes and different shapes and they cost like a few cents each. We've mounted the piece of koto, again k-o-t-o, we've mounted the piece of koto to the lathe and centered. We're going to use the lowest speed setting to slowly drill the hole for our tool. We're using a small forstner bit in our Jacobs chuck and we're going to mark on our drill bit the depth that we're going to drill into, which as we said the recommended depth is two inches and I'm going to add a little bit more to that, let's say two and a half inches. Now in this case I can see that two and a half inches is pretty much the entire length of my bit, so I don't need to mark on my bit the place where I need to drill to, since I can just simply drill the entire length of the drill bit and I know I'll hit the mark. So let's bring our tailstock closer to the piece itself and close it. And actually now that we have the hole for our tool drilled, we can use a live center with a cone attached to it. I don't have a live center, a cone live center, so I actually made a cone from actually another piece of the Santos Mahagonny that I have. I turned it into a cone shape and hollowed out and centered my live center in it. It's a very good solution for someone who doesn't have the specific tool. So let's bring up the tailstock and close it, fasten it, lock it and that should work perfectly and we'll keep our hole centered at all times when we work, so we know that our tool is, our hole is centered to the tool. Let's give it a spin. So as we said we're gonna now turn the end of the tool where our furrow is gonna be and we're gonna take a caliper and measure the inside diameter and that comes to 22 millimeters or let's call it 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 I believe, yep 7, 8 or 22 millimeters and we're going to make it a little bit wider so we can then pressure fit this into it and we're going to obviously glue it inside. I'm taking very light cuts so I wouldn't overdo it. You can go a little bit on but it's always good to obviously test your work and obviously I can use a little bit more. I'll probably chamfer a little bit the edge for good measure so it will be easier to insert. Okay I think we're almost there. Actually I can, I think I can probably hammer it in at this point because it fits just barely on my chamfer. So let's take just a little bit more off and then we'll fit the furrow. That should do it. That's a perfect fit. I'm gonna hammer it in and then we're gonna saw whatever we need, we don't need off. So let's do it. Let's bring out the hammer and a piece of wood. Let's get the tool rest out of the way and the tailstock out of the way and that should do it. Up again. Before I do that obviously I want to know the depth of that I'm going to need to cut. I'm going to use the depth count of my caliper and I'm going to mark it with my hacksaw. So this is the amount I need to take off. pretty much the same shape and size of my large ball gouge. We're going to start by marking the high and low points so we'll know where to turn. So I can see this is these two here are both high points then it's going to taper down and all the way here it's going to taper down and low point and I know you can't see that it's off camera but I'm gonna mark the end of it and I'm gonna now make the marks more visible and I'm gonna work with my caliper and the original gouge to mark the sizes I need to cut and let's start cutting. Hello welcome to my channel again in this video we're gonna make some tool handles something that probably each and every one of the woodturning community is gonna do at some point well most of them. The original idea for this video was for me to make four tool handles out of four different woods which I prepared which is oak and this is a wood that I don't I haven't worked with before which is called KOTO and I bought it recently and I never worked with this wood before it's quite interesting it's very heavy very dense. What I read online this is a wood from South Africa and it's growing extinct so I'm not sure how long this type of wood is going to be available also I have this piece of wood which is called the Santos Mahogany which is a fake mahogany it's a very nice wood this piece actually came from table leg as you can probably guess from the shape of the piece of wood and I was planning also to do one from pine just because it's probably the most available wood beginner woodturners have access to since you can buy this type of construction grade pine in every store but I'm not going to do it. We will be making four tool handles two of them are going to be made from oak which are already cut and prepared from the KOTO and from the Santos Mahogany so these are the tools that we're going to be making the handles for I bought these tools online I will give you some more details in a second as you can see or not let me just leave a bit of organization here these are four hollowing tools here we go these are four hollowing tools we have a straight tool we have an angled tool this is for larger hollowing project and we have the medium set I believe although I have to check because I'm not sure that I got the medium but I had to send it to a high level in order to see just how the wood looks and I have to tell you that minute by minute as I'm working on this it's becoming one of my favorite woods to work with it's absolutely beautiful the color is beautiful the green sunk we grew up like a tree drunk but your branch and mine they split and climbed apart but we still share a single heart if you peel away the bark and see the other times return the love we shared the lessons learned and lost but slowly we drifted in our own ways I couldn't say the moment when I looked and saw your branch had been apart now we are ready to insert our tool into our tool handle that we've made and we're going to use a two-part epoxy to do so now I have here two tubes which are the two parts I know that usually and more comfortably there's this double syringe type epoxy glue but this is almost done with and I'm going to use the new glue just a small tip since it's very important to not mix the taps of the glue after you've opened them because it's going to make the glue harden if you mix the taps I would recommend that you mark one of the tubes and it's tap so it will be easier for you to not mix up the taps so I'm going to do just that I'm going to mark one of the taps with a red cross and one of the glue tubes also with a red cross and that way I will know exactly which tap goes to which tube I've also prepared here the small tray for mixing the glue and the tool that comes with the glue for mixing and also I've prepared this piece of wood which I'm going to use with the tool I'm going to insert the tool into the piece like this and then use the tailstock of the lathe to push it in place after I obviously apply the glue inside so I think the first order of thing is to mix the glue I'm going to use the tool to insert the epoxy into the hole and the hole is a very tight fit for a tool so the tool is gonna carry the epoxy all the way to the shaft so let's put the glue apart now this specific glue epoxy is a five minute epoxy so we have a little bit of time to do things right as I said I've inserted the tool in my piece of wood and hole and I'm going to bring my tailstock up like so and I'm going to use it to again push the tool inside into its place making sure it's as straight as possible now that the the glue is dry and actually if you want you can cut it you can cut your tool off before the glue is dry and leave it aside for drying we can cut away the tool from the from the chuck here we go we're going to finish this part with a wood file and then some sandpaper and a dab of mineral oil you're scared to fly the endless sky when the voices say that there's no way you'll ever make the grave let's say you try and you fall from high when the sun is set will you regret the fall or the times you did nothing at all here's one for magic that lives within foreseeing beauty in the commonest of things here's one for passion without restraint to those who stumble to the ground and feel no shame you're scared to fly the endless sky when the voices say that there's no way you'll ever make the grave let's say you try and you fall from high when the sun is set will you regret the fall the times you did nothing at all failure is always an option but doubt's the fatal toxin that leaves your dreams to wither on the vine why is your brain refusing what are you scared of losing if you don't try you'll fail every time you're scared to fly in the endless sky when the voices say that there's no way you'll ever make the grave let's say you try and you fall from high when the sun is set will you regret the fall or the times you did nothing at all wrap this video up we're going to take a final look at the result what we have here are four tools four new handles we've got the santos mahagoni as you can see very nice i love the grain of this wood and the color obviously we have the koto again it was a very nice experience to work with this wood i'm definitely going to find any reason in the future to make things other than handles and it's going to work just fine with this wood and of course the two smaller tools with the oak handles one and the last one of course at this stage i'm going to have to promise to make a video of hollowing these tools and i hope you will enjoy it as much as i will enjoy actually hollowing out with this fine set of new tools so i think the only thing that is left to do is just a quick cleanup and we're done so thank you very much for watching and i hope to see you soon again that was easy