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266835 <gtgrouch@r...> 2018‑10‑19 Re: Chisel handle rehab
You don't need lathe skills.  Being handy with rasp and file are good enough!

YMMV, Gary Katsanis
Albion New York, USA


---- Kirk Eppler  wrote: 

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On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 8:03 AM Ed Minch  wrote:

>
> I agree.  I have a box of orphaned chisel handles down there, and don;t
> believe I have ever seen a mangles taper.  But if I do, I now know just how
> to approach it
>
>
I have at least one in the shop now where the taper wobbles in the socket,
and there is a recess where the flange on the taper ripped up the wood.
Unfortunately, my lathe skills may need brushing up before I attempt this.
-- 
Kirk Eppler in HMB, who picked up some monster wood screws from an Estate
sale on the way to work.
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