200-year old carving gouge restoration | Making a traditional turned chisel handle with hand tools

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