Yes Mike, we are still watching your early amazing videos, Thank you, be well..

Thank you Mike....Great video....

I like the copper tip. Very nice video. Thanks!

Mike : Fantastic as always, you own the magic!

You discussed some ideas I hadn't considered when making a handle. I will need a couple handles soon. Good information, Mike.

Thanks Mike, I need to "handle" several tools and have watched a number of videos on the subject. This is one of the best!

Nice and clear video, the camoflage comment cracked me up :) . .. a bunch of nice tip in there Mike thank you for sharing your knowledge have a good one

Well thought out. Simple & Effective. I liked the whole video...

Great video with many useful tips. Missed a few bits when you were drilling as the camera position was showing the camouflage jacket off very well. As a beginner I really appreciate your videos. They are all very informative. Keep up the great work.

Great tips and very helpful.

Great tips and nice handle. Thanks!

Nice work, as always!

very good information thanks for passing on your knowledge

good video Mike, cheers Colin.

I enjoyed the camouflage shots 😂 . But seriously, very useful. Thanks.

Fantastic instructions as always!

Very informative video, thank you for the information 👍🏼

I always learn something from these videos. I never parted with a skew but I can see it is less abusive getting on to the finale cut off. Good video, Mike.

Thanks Mike, I hadn't thought of sanding a flat spot to keep them from rolling off the bench. Ordered a piece of 3mm x 18 x 200 HSS steel on eBay and will be making a 1/8 parting tool, thanks for the purchasing tip. Cheers, Gord

I'm watching early videos, too. Is there a rule of thumb for the diameter of the tenon for, say, a half-inch gouge?

Wow! Mr. Peace, I am a devoted subscriber, but....DOGGONE, seems like every video I watch in your arsenal becomes my favorite! I think I've told you that my first teaching job was as a junior high Industrial Arts (aka "Shop") teacher in Starkville, MS (home of MS State University from which I retired in 2000) and I have commented many times to my former students how much better a teacher I would have been if only I had had these amazing KZfaq videos. I always found it hard to demonstrate turning on the lathe when I had 25 or so students standing safely behind me (our one Rockwell Delta lathe was almost against a wall, so no room between the lathe and wall for students to stand). My students turned many handles for things like cutting boards, cheese boards, etc. (found one turning a small baseball bat one time, but discovered that he wanted to brag about drilling a hole in the end, then filling that hole with molden lead so he would have a billy club -- well, I "demonstrated" how to negate that idea pretty quickly! Although my minor area of my doctorate was in law from U of AL, I didn't feel like going to court for allowing my students to create pugilistic weapons!), but I wish I had had this video to inspire them to turn handles for tools. Thanks, Mike, for yet another Hall of Fame teaching video!

Great video. Thank you for your advice.

Good video Mike. Very helpful info on length and depth. I've made a few handles myself and I like to sand the brass or copper to 600 grit then polish with chrome polish on the lathe. Looks great...but colored tape would cover that up. Just a thought.

Great video Mike. I really liked the way you cut the cooper coupling on the lathe. I haven't seen that before, it sure beats a hack saw. i'll do it that way from now on. Thanks for all you do to help the rest of us.

Nice handle Mike, lots of good information, very well demonstrated and explained, shared this on social media. Merry Christmas Harry

Great ideas Mike. About to turn my very first tool handle and have chosen Maple, Hickory, and Cocobolo for my wood. Good choice? Bad choice? Save me from myself if you foresee problems with my selection of species. Thanks Mike!

Wow. Real helpful instruction video, Mike. Tip for using hammer & wrench to remove old handle was worth the price of admission, lol! Making pro looking handles matters a lot to me, the old adage that one can judge a worker by his tool's came to me from grandpa. His tools were put away sharp, clean and ready to go.

Good video M. Mike.

thank you

Thanks Mike! Santa brought me a Thompson bowl gouge, and it's time to make a handle. :)

That's some fine turning you do there.

mike this is a great video with a lot of great tips,,especially the one about holding it steady using a clamp as you drilled it,,may I ask what is the square dimensions you start with,,,craft suppy has pre cut tool handles that are 1 3/4 square

Hey Mike, Thom Schuck again. Now that you and I are best friends I dont feel so bad. On my new Laguna 1216 I am not a big fan of the turning handle on the tailstock. Its wimpy and small. I am thinking on changing that out. At first I was going to remove the handle and remake the entire round wheel. Now I am thinking on turning a new wheel and leave the back flat. The new wood handle would snug up onto the existing wheel and I could fasten it into place with these really cool brass straps i have or the same straps in anodized black. I may have some black powder costed straps as well. What do you think of this idea? Last question is when you are making a tool handle how much wider is your bore than the diameter of the steel? Thanks! I am trying to make things easier for these tired a## arms of mine. I can lift 14 lbs and the longest I can stay out of bed is about 3 hours, However! That includes me hoping into my medical grade water hot tub. Right now you are my go to guy.

So, Mike, can you suggest where I can find a brass ferrel? I was just at my favorite hardware store and the closest I could find was a 3/4" copper slip coupling. But, that will tarnish unless it's coated with a clear varnish. Also, a slip coupling has no shoulder, but many of my tools have ferrels with no shoulder. I have bought the blank piece of Chinese HSS on Amazon just like you did for my thin parting tool. Have a nice piece of ash. All I need now is the ferrel.

Nice tool handle,Mike. The flat on the handle is a great idea. What kind of camera are you using? There's some weird distortions happening occasionally...like on the close ups of turning the ferrule.

Thanks for the handle lesson. What type of finish do you use or recommend for handles?

Mike. Could you make a video on how to change a tool handle? Iv'e searched youtube and can't find any videos on changing tool handles. Thanks.

Craft Supplies carries them. HD and Lowes carries about an 8" piece of fan pipe in different colors. Take a magnet to make sure you are getting a brass one. www.speedymetals.com carries brass tubing. Smaller ferrules I use various brass plumbing fittings leftover from replacing a kitchen sink. Check out plumbing fittings in brass. I don't have a problem with the copper tarnishing. The brass will tarnish as well.

great tips through out the video. Could you not drill a smaller hole say 1/4" a 1/4" deeper then your 1/2" hole? That would give the excess epoxy someplace to go without drilling a hole in the exterior of your handle. Just thinking out loud and smoking up the room.

Good video, just a couple of "unsafe" practices... Always "pull" with your burning wire not "push"... Also, while parting the work piece, long sleeves over the chuck is not a good idea...

Mike, explain why you put the colored tape on your tools?

I should have waited to the end.