Where to get this brass fitting?

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Skie_M

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Tear down a pool cue for the brass ferrule that connects top and bottom ....

The male connector has a hole drilled through it.


You may be able to just buy the ferrules at a pool cue repair place.
 

oldtoolsniper

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Here is one of many leather stitching awl handles I've turned. The brass ferrule before the collet is a brass compression fitting for plumbing. It's designed like a nut to tighten with a wrench, a file makes them round pretty quick.

Find two pieces that screw together in the plumbing section, turn the flat spots to round and you are may have something that will work.


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oldtoolsniper

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This one the compression fitting is easier to see. The handle on this one is an old leather belt compressed on a thru shaft with a 20 ton hydraulic press I built for smooshing things like this together.

Turn a stub tenon and thread the fitting on to your work with some epoxy, then turn the flats off the fitting.


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dogcatcher

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Go with the hexagon sided tool handle like Old Tool Sniper posted, they don't roll off the work table. Gives a real classic vintage look tp the tool. There are several tutorials on hexagon shaped handles on Google.
 
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