Templates for octagonal wa handles

C Cushing H. Back to the original topic, I think the masking tape and super glue trick is the way to go.

Holds super secure, if you burnish the tape down, and comes off when you want it to.
 
I use double sided woodturners tape to hold all of my scales together while cutting, drilling, and shaping the fronts. I don’t see why something like that wouldn’t work for your templates and then you don’t have to mess with super glue. I just use a really thin blunt knife to separate the scales when I no longer need them held together.
 
Joshua Fisher said:
I use double sided woodturners tape to hold all of my scales together while cutting, drilling, and shaping the fronts. I don’t see why something like that wouldn’t work for your templates and then you don’t have to mess with super glue. I just use a really thin blunt knife to separate the scales when I no longer need them held together.
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Huh .... that has not come up yet. Will have to give it a try - definitely should be cleaner than blue tape and super glue. thank you Joshua
 
been using a carpenters pencil and 321 blocks to mark handles for years 1 layer of tape on the blade to protect it lay it on a 321 block takwe the other block and using mill parallels make a few lines on the butt of the handle. using the same parallels again layed flat on the blade i mark the front of the handle (ajusting for taper ) grind to the lines. square by eye top and bottom of the handle (with taper) then its not that hard to knock the 45s out with the addition of the extra top and bottom handle lines that you add earlier to square the handle up just got to grind evenly to the line intersections
 
Pask makes had a jig for cutting N-sided regular polygonal handles on a bandsaw. I think he did pentagons, hexagons, octagons and septagons in the video?

I use the masking tape and superglue method on the wood lathe. Seems like it would work here
 
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