200-year old carving gouge restoration | Making a traditional turned chisel handle with hand tools
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- čas přidán 17. 06. 2023
- In this video, I restore an antique carving gouge made in Sheffield, England about 200 years ago. I found this gouge with a broken handle wrapped in decades-old tape. I demonstrate how to make and fit a traditional tang chisel handle by hand (no lathe) using a template to guide the shaping and hand tools such as a hand plane, rasps, and files. I also show how to drill and ream a pilot hole for a perfectly centered handle. For the new handle, I used a salvaged piece of vintage Brazilian bulletwood, an extremely strong and dense exotic hardwood. This is one of nicest woods I've worked with and I can't wait to use it again in another project.
00:05 Unwrapping the old handle
00:37 Splitting bulletwood
01:48 Layout
02:23 Drilling the pilot hole
02:53 Planing the handle
04:32 Chopping the ferrule seat
05:10 Making the ferrule
05:52 Making the template
07:05 Shaping the handle
11:06 Fitting the tang
13:31 Grinding and sharpening
14:29 Finishing the handle
15:04 Carving dragon scales
Beautiful.
I agree very nice job and scales are great thanks
Thanks for watching!
Well done! I'm going to mention this video (and your channel) in the next episode of Wood Carving Weekly.
Awesome, thank you!
@@thehandtoolworks what happened? why no more video's, your cinematography (and no talking) + your great skills are really among the best in it's genre here on YT!! anyhow, just wanted to say i really enjoyed all video's, thanks for sharing..
Thanks! More coming soon!
@@thehandtoolworks great news! looking forward to it! cheers
@@thehandtoolworks My pleasure, happy to share!
That was amazing hand work. And the Brazilian wood must have been a challenge. Great results on the scales!
Thanks! It was surprisingly nice to work with despite the hardness.
What can I say? Perfect, just perfect. Thanks so much for that!
Thanks Georg! Glad you enjoyed it!
Very impressive. Loved the hand-turned grinder.
Thanks Bob, it's a lot of fun to use!
That's a very cool bit extension
Beautifully done, and interesting species of wood!
Thank you! Cheers!
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Much 10,10,10!!!
Thanks!
Great video!!! Great video!!! Beautifully done restoration! You have a natural talent for captivating viewers and keeping us engaged from start to finish!!! Bravo to the master!👏👏👏👏
Thank you very much PerfectRestore! Glad you liked it!
@@thehandtoolworks Great job!!!👍
Fine piece of work you've made there. I've repaird a couple of chisels in this age range, very rewarding work.
Thanks! I agree, bringing these really early tools back into working condition is super rewarding.
Beautiful job sir , instant subscriber. Thank you for posting.
Awesome, thank you!
That bronze bushing looks like a slide guitarist slide. Very cool
Thanks otter!
Beautiful work!
Thank you! Cheers!
Nice work. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for watching!
Spectacular...
Thanks!
Fantastic work!
Drilling the hole is tricky for me. Good solution using the extension.
Greetings Tino
Thanks Tino! I'll find any excuse to use a vintage auger bit extension :)
Dear Mr Handtoolworks: clearly this is not your first rodeo. I thoroughly enjoyed this video, thank you. a) Where did you learn all your skills? b) Was that a hand stitched rasp you used? (a Frenchie?) c) Where did you acquire that auger extension holder? (never thought it even existed prior to this). This was the most instructive video I've ever seen on restoring hand tools, and its the little things you added which spoke the most to me. Interestingly, what I saw you doing by squaring off, then making octagonal to eventually come back to round, is what I am learning in blacksmithing right now. Very, very interesting. I offer somewhat effusive praise, but its rare that I find something so absolutely brilliant here on the Tube that I can put into use next day.
Damn, nice job!
Thanks @grahambilley3669 !
Great work dude. 😉😉
Thank you!
Super
Thanks @SunnyAd-mh4wk !
❤
Love this!
Thanks Michael!
How do you know it's 200 years od and not 100 or 50 years old?
Hi @jsaurman,
There are a few clues that point to the age of the gouge:
-Sheffield tool makers in the late 1700s and early 1800s would have commonly used very simple makers' marks like the fleur-de-lys you see on the gouge. By the 1830s, makers' marks became more complex, elaborate, and distinct for each manufacturer.
-In the US, steel edge tools (eg chisels, plane blades, saws) were usually imported from Sheffield, until domestic steel making improved and eventually took over in the 1840s-1870s time frame. So, when you find an antique edge tool from Sheffield in the US, it is often a safe bet that it was made prior to the mid 1800s.
-The grind marks on the back of the gouge have a primitive appearance that is typical of tools made with the technology available in the early 1800s.
-The gouge was found along with other tools from the early 1800s time period.
6:36 What was that small hole from? 10:28 Oh, nevermind.
how did you know is that 200 year old?
Hi @choCOOLatte, great question! There are a few clues that point to the age of the gouge:
-Sheffield tool makers in the late 1700s and early 1800s would have commonly used very simple makers' marks like the fleur-de-lys you see on the gouge. By the 1830s, makers' marks became more complex, elaborate, and distinct for each manufacturer.
-In the US, steel edge tools (eg chisels, plane blades, saws) were usually imported from Sheffield, until domestic steel making improved and eventually took over in the 1840s-1870s time frame. So, when you find an antique edge tool from Sheffield in the US, it is often a safe bet that it was made prior to the mid 1800s.
-The grind marks on the back of the gouge have a primitive appearance that is typical of tools made with the technology available in the early 1800s.
-The gouge was found along with other tools from the early 1800s time period.
@@thehandtoolworks WOW thanks a lot men for info, i just wondering i bought on ebay last year a brass back tapered dovetail saw progressive pitch on weird orientation opposite of rob cosman progress dovetail saw, it Sheffield caststeel molson brothers, this dovetail saw of mine is so weird the finer tooth it is on half end of plate and set by crosscut? ever the size is for dovetailing cut
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