Author Topic: Got handle done (Read 3947 times)

Keith Spriggs · « **on:** December 03, 2006, 08:50:51 AM »

Finally got the handle done that I had been working on.

Richard Grogan · « **Reply #1 on:** December 03, 2006, 09:29:38 AM »

Sweet! How much you gonna sell em' for?!!??

Russell Shaffer · « **Reply #2 on:** December 03, 2006, 06:59:06 PM »

You guys amaze me. That is a beautiful handle. Mine is plastic. I see other pictures of pure artwork inside of a wing that will never be seen. My stuff doesn't look that good on the outside.

Keith Spriggs · « **Reply #3 on:** December 04, 2006, 12:19:39 AM »

Quote from: Russell Shaffer on December 03, 2006, 06:59:06 PM

My stuff doesn't look that good on the outside.

I imagine that your stuff looks better to others than it does to you. We tend to see the little flaws in our own work, that others never see.

Randy Powell · « **Reply #4 on:** December 04, 2006, 01:11:50 PM »

I recently built a new handle. The old one was pretty heavy (rosewood and aluminum) and so I built one out of a relatively bizarre African wood that's about the same weight as heavy balsa; called toureque wood. The new handle weighs about 6oz. But I'm afraid to post a picture because of the undoubted flak I'll get about getting too carried away.

Ward Van Duzer · « **Reply #5 on:** December 04, 2006, 01:33:19 PM »

Flak, flak!

Terry Bolin · « **Reply #6 on:** December 04, 2006, 01:39:27 PM »

Randy, Go ahead and post a picture. We might see some new idea we can use from it!
Terry B.

Keith Spriggs · « **Reply #7 on:** December 04, 2006, 03:56:11 PM »

Quote from: Randy on December 04, 2006, 01:11:50 PM

But I'm afraid to post a picture because of the undoubted flak I'll get about getting too carried away.

Wah Wah Wah I wanna see a picture.

Randy Powell · « **Reply #8 on:** December 05, 2006, 04:45:23 PM »

I'll take one tonight. But no bad comments.

OK, here it is. Fits my hand very well. Amazing what you can accomplish in an hour with a sanding drum and a rotary grinder.

Greg L Bahrman · « **Reply #9 on:** December 05, 2006, 05:55:29 PM »

Too Cool. What's it for???.............Hee, Hee

Bill Little · « **Reply #10 on:** December 05, 2006, 07:19:08 PM »

Quote from: Keith on December 03, 2006, 08:50:51 AM

Finally got the handle done that I had been working on.

Keith, that is some pretty work. Should do a fine job for you for years to come!

Bill <><

Randy Powell · « **Reply #11 on:** December 05, 2006, 10:08:37 PM »

Note, Bill, I did post a pic of the handle. It's light at least.

Bill Little · « **Reply #12 on:** December 05, 2006, 10:24:36 PM »

Quote from: Randy on December 05, 2006, 10:08:37 PM

Note, Bill, I did post a pic of the handle. It's light at least.

You got way too much time on your hands there, Buddy!

Looks really nice! Do you have different length hard points or are they adjustable?

Bill <><

Randy Powell · « **Reply #13 on:** December 05, 2006, 10:32:29 PM »

Yea, in a fit of pique, I made up about 40 of them in 1/16" increments, no less. Sigh... I just never liked the cable handles. Blame The Dirt. He got me doing this.

Keith Spriggs · « **Reply #14 on:** December 05, 2006, 10:47:41 PM »

Quote from: Randy on December 05, 2006, 04:45:23 PM

I'll take one tonight. But no bad comments.

OK, here it is. Fits my hand very well. Amazing what you can accomplish in an hour with a sanding drum and a rotary grinder.

I couldn't ever think of any bad comments on that handle. Beautiful job. I could probably do the same thing in a week or so if I had a pickup load of lumber. No cables? food for thought. A good example of "form follows function"

Richard Grogan · « **Reply #15 on:** December 06, 2006, 12:51:57 AM »

Quote from: Randy on December 05, 2006, 04:45:23 PM

I'll take one tonight. But no bad comments.

OK, here it is. Fits my hand very well. Amazing what you can accomplish in an hour with a sanding drum and a rotary grinder.

Neat handle there, Randy. It looks like a really safe one to fly with. Do you use your left hand to put it in/on your right hand? It seems you would have to really be trying to have a "fly-away" with this handle to lose it. Good design!

Randy Powell · « **Reply #16 on:** December 06, 2006, 11:44:28 AM »

Keith,

Well, I've been told that there is a more positive feel with hardpoints as opposed to cables. Could be true, I suppose. I've just had a lot of trouble with cable handles over time. Probably my own fault.

Amazingly, this one is easy to use. No, you don't have to use two hands to pick it up. <grin> You just sort of slide into it. I like it as well as any handle I have. The one thing I do like is, you don't have to grip the thing. It's sort of locked onto your hand so I can keep my hand sort of loose while flying. Seems an advantage. To me, at least.

Didn't mean to upstage the focus of this thread, I do like the cable adjusters on your handle. Seems this would solve the problems I had with cable handles I was always having trouble with the adjusters getting screwed up.

Keith Spriggs · « **Reply #17 on:** December 06, 2006, 02:03:37 PM »

Quote from: Randy on December 06, 2006, 11:44:28 AM

Keith,

Didn't mean to upstage the focus of this thread, I do like the cable adjusters on your handle. Seems this would solve the problems I had with cable handles I was always having trouble with the adjusters getting screwed up.

Hey, No problem to me. I like to see other ideas. I blatantly steal the good ones.

Randy Powell · « **Reply #18 on:** December 06, 2006, 03:45:12 PM »

Keith,

Hey, theft away.

Wish I could remember where I got the chunk of wood. I've had it for a long time. Sigh...

Terry Bolin · « **Reply #19 on:** December 10, 2006, 08:19:42 AM »

Wow Randy, that was alot of shaping and sanding! looks good though.
Keith, I am still working on Cabinets for my wife but I will start the new handle blanks that we talked about soon! I finished restoring the 100+ year old table yesterday so the list is clicking down.
Terry B

Mark Scarborough · « **Reply #20 on:** December 10, 2006, 11:24:23 AM »

That handle rocks Randy, and if you ever get in a disagreement with the judges or another competetor, you have your brass knuckles close by,, hehe