Dave Polaschek

Today’s 90 minutes of shop time started with some shaping of the handle. I dry fit the shaft into the handle, and then shaped the piece of granadil...

I finished up the carving on the shaft. Going to keep it simple, with just a single set of lines, rather than full checkering. Sanded with 220 grit...

It’s getting into the home stretch, I think. I sanded off (using 220 grit) the excess white grain-filler, then hit the handle with a coat of Tru-Oi...

90 minutes in the shop this morning, but quite a bit of progress. First, I shaped the handle a bit more. When Greg tried it on Friday, we made mar...

About two hours more work (for two handles) mostly with a spokeshave and a knife, but also with some rasp work and a pencil to mark what I want to ...

This morning’s progress was marking the position for the hole in the tenon, [IMG_9240.jpeg] [IMG_9241.jpeg] [IMG_9247.jpeg] Then offsetting it b...

Another hour, some more progress. I started rounding the shafts with my homemade spokeshave, but that’s set for a pretty rough cut, and I was getti...

Next up, making the shafts rounder, but first, done quick fine-tuning of the tenons with a float. I had aimed to make the mortises slightly larger ...

Had another half-hour in the shop this morning. Got the tenons double-checked and cut, and they’re each just a hair too big for their respective ha...

Another hour in the shop this morning. Trimmed the layer of granadillo after marking the rough diameter I plan to finish it to. Not perfect, but cl...

I got a little more time this evening, and spent a half hour making two trenails out of four ⅜ inch square scraps of live oak I got from Nathan. Sp...

Not much progress today, but even slow progress is progress. I finished chopping the mortise on the second handle. Went pretty smoothly except for...