As you may remember, I recently bought and semi restored a small wood lathe.
This week new chisels arrived, so I spent this morning working on some new handles for floggers.
As you can see, it makes a good deal of sawdust. Lathe dust? Whatever.
What you are looking at is 1.25 inch Oak dowel where I reduced about an inch of it to .5 inch or so.
So I did three of them to see how they would turn out, this being my first time
(Wood Lathe Virgin, wouldn't you know)
Yes, I realize they are not uniform but, you know, first time.
So I cut the caps off and sanded them down to make them useable and ready for stain
Used the new Purple stain, as well as my favorite Red, and a Dark Brown
I didn't stain the "necks" due to the fact that is where I am going to glue the falls.
My plan is order some Dark Purple and Dark Red Buckskin for the correlating handels. The Brown one will get more Moose I used on the Copper handled flogger awhile back.
Tomorrow will be polycoating with a full gloss and the fall attachment.
Stay Tuned for Final Product!