 What does it look like right there's a better fix that step one was a piece of cake oh I'm not sure how old it is though might still be strong but curves before it gets taken out so it doesn't matter somewhere out here there's got to be a that might be a good stick over there this came out of a pretty strong piece of wood this guy was just not quite thick enough it'll be great for the handle part but that top part just not quite and I could glue some pieces on whatever I decided to just go out see if I could find something that would actually be big enough I don't need to waste a and nicely cut piece of wood on something where it's gonna be not optimal so I went out and I found a red mangrove tree that fell down two or three months ago so it's long enough that it's gotten a bit of a chance to dry out but the termites have not gotten to it yet at least not this this particular piece and this is definitely wide enough which means you're gonna be kind of a lot of work whittling it down but that's just a double check yeah definitely fill the fatter part okay so the way these handles work is the entire handle has to fit through here until you know the top of the handles fatter and get stuck so almost the entire handle has to be skinnier than this end this side is fatter so the handle has to taper out at the end get stuck in here I'm just gonna start with a machete at least get these knobs off bark off get the thing kind of smoothed out and this wood is so hard I'm gonna speed up the operation a little yeah I should take care it looks about right I just want to cut a little bit of a time so I don't move the thing the heavy piece of wood for what it is it's very dense it's not very big try to cut through all at once it's gonna move this makes it so nice oh that is some good-looking stuff right there all right that'll definitely get through and then up here I'm gonna cut this off so this part can stay thick and get wedged in good you want to take this down you know people keep asking me why I prefer the circular saw blade style lumber mill over the bandsaw style you know this is a swing mill so it'll cut vertical and horizontal and you know I talk about things like it cuts a real smooth line and once you get your log in place you don't have to move it you just move the blade around as opposed to with you know the bandsaw you cut a much rougher line and you have to move your log and blah blah blah but one thing that I'm realizing today is that thing has been sitting there unused for like three months just out in the elements well it's got a roof over it but you know the blade is rusty it's got weeds growing over it and all I had to do to start cutting was just turn it on and go if it was a bandsaw lumber mill I'd have to tighten the blade to make sure everything's aligned right it's just a lot more involved in getting it to work oh should we go outside to do this probably this saw is terrible but I should be able to cut through like three millimeters I want to get some good hand saw hard to find today though two millimeter thick piece perfectly if I had a laser cutter cut wood on that lumber mill I really want to get a piece of wood to laser cut at this part this part great cut such a nice cut nothing's happier than it looks isn't it it's a really dense piece of wood hey I think we'll get the hey do you want to grab the hand planer okay okay you should get your own stick I want to get this done so I could actually use it today did you say please that is pretty sweet I think they make handles too skinny in the stores too short to you know I'm taller than average and have way bigger hands it is a little bit so it's a little bent a little at the end what when you grab it you also grab it straight like that because your arms are coming at different angles so it's a little bent it's more comfortable now this is a two directional tool so when I do it the other way it's gonna be the wrong way so I'll put it this way in the direction that I'll use it I've totally destroyed the sentence I'll put it so I hold it this way most of the time there's basically what I'm trying so I'll probably be tough call you know what I need more power when I do this one then when I do this one I use both ends but when I hit with this one I definitely need more power so I'll give back the good grip oh crap now I forgot where was I last part I can't use a planer because this has to flare out so it's gonna go like this and the planer can't get into gullies like that so sharpened a little section on my machete here real sharp don't use it just need to get this to match the hole that looks pretty good you have this pound this in there a little call it done oh cut off the top that's the best handle I felt actually you're coming with me today right I need this today all right all right let's give it a little test before we go anywhere good stuff nice having a handle that's long enough handles for these things only like this long