Creative Woodworks & crafts 2003-01, страница 49

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Customize your own hammer handles

Now you can cut customized hammer handles, and make patterns for them. Here's the way I hold onto the hammer while cutting and drilling it. A pattern for my jig is presented in Full Size Pattern Section No. 2.

Don't have a computer to make the pattern? I've also included a pattern for a lettering template that you can use to make name patterns the old fashioned way. After you've made your pattern, apply it to the handle. I use tape so all I have to do is peel the pattern off when I'm done. The most critical part is drilling. If you try to drill the hole in one pass, you probably won't come out on the back side where you want to. To keep the bit from drifting, put the bit in the chuck so less than 1/4" of it is sticking out of the chuck. Drill a shallow hole in each place needed, then lengthen the amount of bit sticking out so its long enough and finish drilling the rest of the way through.

Removing a little material to relieve the inside corners allows you to use a heavy enough blade to cut the hickoy handle with ease. A similar relief cut into the waste area on outside corners is a good practice as well. Even tight radii are more easily done by making relief cuts and shaving up to the line. It doesn'^- take much more time to cut this way, the blades last much longer, burning is practically eliminated and cuts don't 'belly out'. I find myself cutting this way even where I can just make the turn; it just becomes second nature, something you do without thinking. That's good ! With my mind, it's best not to think too much! ^

Almost any material can be used: to create perspmalized projects.

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With this easy to use computer program, letters can be enlarged or reduced as desired and arranged any way you like.

Scrolling words and letters just became a whole lot easier!

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