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I prefer that my small-nosed turning tools not be appreciably shorter than those used for general turning, and that their handles be a little slimmer than usual (figure 2.14). I prefer wooden handles to metal because my workshop is cold in the winter. Also I don’t like my handle surfaces to be smooth or highly polished because I then have to grip them more tightly which inhibits easy manipulation. Therefore if I’m “improving” a manufacturer’s handle, even if I haven’t appreciably slimmed it, I produce the finished surface using a small roughing gouge presented without side rake. I then don’t sand this surface.

Figure 2.14 Four small-nosed tools. The two paler handles have been turned down and left unsanded, my current preference.

The design of the tool rack in which the handle ends are supported on a dowel was shown in my first woodturning book The Practice of Woodturning.²