good afternoon youtube i have this nylon spatulas and over the years the handle on that one
i think it touched the pan or the burner a couple of times got all melted up and then the tang
got loose in the hole here so i was thinking of just cleaning that up and maybe putting a little
epoxy in there to hold it in but then i started looking at the handle and it's like oh yeah that's
that's seen better days and the spatula itself is okay so i dug around and i had a piece of wooden
dowel here also had a little cut off piece of copper tubing here and i had a piece cut to that
length i just cut a piece of wood the same length as the handle the tang and the hole are about six
millimeter diameter and the tang actually has a couple of uh little ribs on it so you can press
it in so i'm going to try that just pressing it in and in the past i've made a number of handles
this is sort of my typical handle technique has happened to be a piece of branch off of a tree so
i just cut a piece of branch off and then i'll put a ferrule of some sort yeah i think this is nylon
tubing that i had three quarter inch nylon tubing and i just cut a length of that off press it over
the end and then drill a hole in there and press in this case a file in and then i put a magnet
on the end of it and that way the the file can just hang on my lathe chip tray there and i did
a similar one for this file yeah so this is cvc water pipe schedule 40 i think it is just cut
a ferrule turn down the end enough to press it on and that just keeps the wood from splitting
so i thought i'd do the same thing for the spatula so i just turned down a step to fit
the copper pipe onto i left it a little bit long and then i went around and just tap the
end of that down it was a little bit flared in from the pipe cutter that i used and then i just
went around and kind of bent the end over i think this was one inch dowel and this was about eight
inch inside the pipe so i just pressed the pipe on and then tapered it a little bit there and
then i figure i'm going to turn it around and then i'll just round off the end here
and sand it down because before i go and do that yeah that looks like it'll be a good fit
the end just goes in the hole so i drilled that six millimeters okay there we go just rounded
off the end there clean it up a little bit and give it a rough sanding and i got the end there
let's see the grain runs this way and the tangs run that way so i want to put the grain in the
direction of those so it doesn't split the wood out so let's see if we can tap this down
yeah there we go i can probably go down maybe another tap or two
yeah there we go that bottomed out yeah that looks pretty good there all the way down and
see i'll just clean it up a little bit and then i'm just gonna dip this in a can of uh
spar varnish and let it drip dry and maybe sand it down i don't know if it needs a second coat i'll
give it a second coat okay just wanted to give you an update on the new handle for the spatula
i really like the way this turned out it's got a much nicer feel to the grip so here i'm browning
some ground beef and chorizo and some peppers and onions for a batch of chili and with the old
handle on here if you wanted to try to poke something on the side the handle would spin
and you couldn't do that so yeah this thing is really nice i like the feel of it it's
just it's got a little bit of weight to it yeah i think that's going to last a long time imagine
this handle will outlast the spatula but this spatula is pretty old i've had it for quite a
while in fact i think i might have picked up this spatula about the time i picked up this uh stove
back in the 90s this could be about the same age i remember i picked up some non-stick cookware and
i think i got this spatula around the same time but then the handle just got melted a few times so
yeah really happy with the way that turned out and it looks nice it feels nice and it it works
really well really nice upgrade to a cheap worn out spatula yeah so far the finish is holding
up and i just like the the feel in the hands you can grab it where the the old handle was so small
that you couldn't really get a good grip on it and then it was loose so the handle would spin
on the shaft of the spatula and what wasn't very useful so anyway i thought i'd give you a
update on how it works and yeah really happy with that as always thanks for watching