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Musing about Shillalahs and Tool Handles
It's 17 March and so a tip of a Scottish hat and a raised glass of a
single malt to our Irish turners. Slainte! I don't know why the difference between a shillalah and a tool handle comes to mind. We hold woodturning tool handles in our hands, at times tenderly and gently but at other times they must be held in a tight grasp, but never with pale knuckles. Either way they are _not clubs to bludgeon a workpiece. They may be guide-ons, but they aren't flag staffs to wave about the spinning wood. One of the independently diverse (perverse?) ways woodturners think about and do things is the difference in the size, shape, material and finish (or lack of same) of their tool handles. Plumbing pipe, copper tubing, lead weights, stainless steel, 2X4s, and exotic woods are all used in long, short, thick, thin, straight, curved, coved and ferruled tool handles. It's rare, but "I knew a turner who danced with his gouge's original handle... in Chicago, my hometown". A tool handle is a serious thing and worthy of all Turners to make a careful choice on their own. :) Please forget shafts, bevels and edges for this once and describe (pic?) some of your favorites and why you like them ... even if they be the originals. :) Turn to Safety, Arch Fortiter http://community.webtv.net/almcc/MacsMusings |
Musing about Shillalahs and Tool Handles
--IIRC it's spelled "shilelagh"; vague memory from Scrabble, heh.
-- "Steamboat Ed" Haas : Concave, convex, con Hacking the Trailing Edge! : carne: all is Zen.. http://www.nmpproducts.com/intro.htm ---Decks a-wash in a sea of words--- |
Musing about Shillalahs and Tool Handles
Hi Steamboat. Thanks for the correction, Ed. I knew it didn't look
right. I shoudda said "Irish toothpick". :) Turn to Safety, Arch Fortiter http://community.webtv.net/almcc/MacsMusings |
Musing about Shillalahs and Tool Handles
"steamer" wrote in message ... --IIRC it's spelled "shilelagh"; vague memory from Scrabble, heh. Challenge! You can give 'em "L," Arch. Amazing what happens when we try to impose writing on a language which developed without it, isn't it? There's no way I would ever, with my American, have come up with proper pronunciation for the Gaelic names of places over there. Modern Irish are as baffled when the name is not a familiar one. "Sound it out" is not an option. I had the same problem in Poland, where the Latin alphabet is in use. Pronounce it, and I could get the meaning. Trouble was, Cyril and Methodius were orthodox or Polish would be written in the easily pronounceable Cyrillic. |
Musing about Shillalahs and Tool Handles
steamer wrote:
--IIRC it's spelled "shilelagh"; vague memory from Scrabble, heh. In its anglicized form it's usually spelt "shillelagh" (note the double-l) and the Irish is "sail-éílle". That having been said, there's a place not far from me in County Wicklow also called Shil(l)elagh, the Irish name of which is Síol Ealaigh. -- Alun Saunders |
Musing about Shillalahs and Tool Handles
Thanks, George & Alun. Siol Ealiagh, Shillelagh, Shilelagh, even
Shillalah: one religion is as good as another! (that's not the original pun) :) I should have used "Billy Club", but then some Feminist would object that I didn't say "Billie Club". :) Now what about all your favorite tool handles? Can you post pics of your club's handles, Mac? BTW, we need to see your Olan tool and it's important to know the exact screw threads on the bolt. Whether metric, fine, coarse, Whitworth, unified or whatever is under that tape makes a huge difference in how we turn. Almost as much as the way we dry wood, perceive art or understand plagiary. :) Turn to Safety, Arch Fortiter http://community.webtv.net/almcc/MacsMusings |
Musing about Shillalahs and Tool Handles
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Musing about Shillalahs and Tool Handles
Prometheus wrote:
On Fri, 17 Mar 2006 12:17:21 -0500, (Arch) wrote: It's 17 March and so a tip of a Scottish hat and a raised glass of a single malt to our Irish turners. Slainte! It's rare, but "I knew a turner who danced with his gouge's original handle... in Chicago, my hometown". In honor of this particular muse, I suggest we give Arch the title of "Chairman of the Board" :) Hmmm. Keep that up buster and we'll have to put one of those shillelagh things to use! g ....Kevin -- Kevin Miller http://www.alaska.net/~atftb Juneau, Alaska Registered Linux User No: 307357 |
Musing about Shillalahs and Tool Handles
On Fri, 17 Mar 2006 15:42:02 -0500, (Arch) wrote:
Thanks, George & Alun. Siol Ealiagh, Shillelagh, Shilelagh, even Shillalah: one religion is as good as another! (that's not the original pun) :) I should have used "Billy Club", but then some Feminist would object that I didn't say "Billie Club". :) Now what about all your favorite tool handles? Can you post pics of your club's handles, Mac? BTW, we need to see your Olan tool and it's important to know the exact screw threads on the bolt. Whether metric, fine, coarse, Whitworth, unified or whatever is under that tape makes a huge difference in how we turn. Almost as much as the way we dry wood, perceive art or understand plagiary. :) Turn to Safety, Arch Fortiter don't know if I can get pictures of the club challenge, but I'll try... It's on March 25th.. I might even drag the camera out to the shop today and take a picture of my Olan handle and post it on ABPW... *g* Next time I make one, I really want to take construction shots and put up a page on making them.. See if you can get a handle on all this, Arch.. Mac https://home.comcast.net/~mac.davis https://home.comcast.net/~mac.davis/wood_stuff.htm |
Musing about Shillalahs and Tool Handles
On Sat, 18 Mar 2006 20:52:21 -0900, Kevin Miller
wrote: Prometheus wrote: On Fri, 17 Mar 2006 12:17:21 -0500, (Arch) wrote: It's 17 March and so a tip of a Scottish hat and a raised glass of a single malt to our Irish turners. Slainte! It's rare, but "I knew a turner who danced with his gouge's original handle... in Chicago, my hometown". In honor of this particular muse, I suggest we give Arch the title of "Chairman of the Board" :) Hmmm. Keep that up buster and we'll have to put one of those shillelagh things to use! g ...Kevin Kevin.. this is ARCH we're talking about...... maybe Chairman of the Bored? Mac https://home.comcast.net/~mac.davis https://home.comcast.net/~mac.davis/wood_stuff.htm |
Musing about Shillalahs and Tool Handles
"mac davis" wrote in message ... On Sat, 18 Mar 2006 20:52:21 -0900, Kevin Miller wrote: Prometheus wrote: On Fri, 17 Mar 2006 12:17:21 -0500, (Arch) wrote: It's 17 March and so a tip of a Scottish hat and a raised glass of a single malt to our Irish turners. Slainte! It's rare, but "I knew a turner who danced with his gouge's original handle... in Chicago, my hometown". In honor of this particular muse, I suggest we give Arch the title of "Chairman of the Board" :) Hmmm. Keep that up buster and we'll have to put one of those shillelagh things to use! g ...Kevin Kevin.. this is ARCH we're talking about...... maybe Chairman of the Bored? Mac ============= Mac, Kevin has thought for years that HE was Chairman of the COC Board; probably all that whale blubber they eat up there in the Frozen North. {:-) |
Musing about Shillalahs and Tool Handles
Ken Moon wrote:
"mac davis" wrote in message ... On Sat, 18 Mar 2006 20:52:21 -0900, Kevin Miller wrote: Prometheus wrote: On Fri, 17 Mar 2006 12:17:21 -0500, (Arch) wrote: It's 17 March and so a tip of a Scottish hat and a raised glass of a single malt to our Irish turners. Slainte! It's rare, but "I knew a turner who danced with his gouge's original handle... in Chicago, my hometown". In honor of this particular muse, I suggest we give Arch the title of "Chairman of the Board" :) Hmmm. Keep that up buster and we'll have to put one of those shillelagh things to use! g ...Kevin Kevin.. this is ARCH we're talking about...... maybe Chairman of the Bored? Mac ============= Mac, Kevin has thought for years that HE was Chairman of the COC Board; probably all that whale blubber they eat up there in the Frozen North. {:-) That's muktuk to you, heathen. g I'm just trying to keep the atrocious jokes to a minimum. Can't have just anybody spouting off with bad puns or we'd have a whale of problem on our hands. Of course, this may have just been a fluke... ....Kevin -- Kevin Miller http://www.alaska.net/~atftb Juneau, Alaska Registered Linux User No: 307357 |
Musing about Shillalahs and Tool Handles
On Sun, 19 Mar 2006 20:14:11 -0900, Kevin Miller
wrote: Mac, Kevin has thought for years that HE was Chairman of the COC Board; probably all that whale blubber they eat up there in the Frozen North. {:-) That's muktuk to you, heathen. g I'm just trying to keep the atrocious jokes to a minimum. Can't have just anybody spouting off with bad puns or we'd have a whale of problem on our hands. Of course, this may have just been a fluke... drum roll ...Kevin /drum roll *groan* Mac https://home.comcast.net/~mac.davis https://home.comcast.net/~mac.davis/wood_stuff.htm |
Musing about Shillalahs and Tool Handles
I appreciate being nominated as a member of the board, but I could never
be Chairman. I can't sing, but I'm much more like Dean than Frank. Seems their's no interest in discussing what handles you all favor and use for your different turning tools. Sorry. Best to forget tool handles and return to a more helpful, topical & popular subject. :) Turn to Safety, Arch Fortiter http://community.webtv.net/almcc/MacsMusings |
Musing about Shillalahs and Tool Handles
On Mon, 20 Mar 2006 13:15:35 -0500, (Arch) wrote:
I appreciate being nominated as a member of the board, but I could never be Chairman. I can't sing, but I'm much more like Dean than Frank. Seems their's no interest in discussing what handles you all favor and use for your different turning tools. Sorry. Best to forget tool handles and return to a more helpful, topical & popular subject. :) Turn to Safety, Arch Fortiter http://community.webtv.net/almcc/MacsMusings Arch.. I think we ALL have the same preferred handle... The one on the opposite end from the pointy part.. *g* Mac https://home.comcast.net/~mac.davis https://home.comcast.net/~mac.davis/wood_stuff.htm |
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