View Full Version : Making wooden handles on a gunsmithing metal lathe
Clark
12-01-2018, 08:14 PM
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I have been making bolt handle knobs, file handles, hammer handles, and a lot of chisel handles.
Every day I wake up with a saw dust hangover.
Nice work another reason to have a lathe.
country gent
12-01-2018, 10:37 PM
I make handles on my wood lathe. But recently I wanted to see what 38-56, 38-50 rem, and 22-15-60 actually looked like, so I got the dimensions from cartridge conversions book and a piece of wood dowel and turned them up on the metal lathe. Made a dummy round without brass or dies.
Green Frog
12-01-2018, 11:05 PM
Turning wooden parts on a metal lathe isn't that much of a stretch as long as you shape and sharpen your cutting tools appropriately. Going the other way and trying to cut metal on a wood lathe is not likely to be as successful. I've got some Osage Orange handles on a couple of schuetzen accessories that were turned up by an old friend on his Heavy 10... he regarded those OO handles as a sort of trademark.
Froggie
W.R.Buchanan
12-02-2018, 06:25 PM
Good idea to cover the ways so you don't get Sawdust under the slides.
Also wear a mask as some types of woods are poisonous to inhale. Cocobolo and the Ironwoods are particularly noxious.
Randy
Clark
12-03-2018, 12:00 AM
231425
But Ironwood and Rosewood are some of my favorites:(
231426
I have to vacuum the lathe a lot.
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