New lathe chisel handles

I finished setting up the lathe when the new rubber feet arrived which are self-adhesive pads I purchased these to help absorb sound through the rubber feet instead of hearing noise on the bare floorboards. After my little oops (first attempt)of turning I decided it was through picking up the wrong turning chisel, I decided to put a few away for now till I have practised a lot more and regained my skill seeing it's many years since I did any turning. Most of the scrapper chisel I have are quite big from the two shown in the photo in another post here.

I decided to reshape the two chisels that were home attempts of turning by someone else although the steel tangs were Robert Sorby's, I ground one into a scrapper and the other reshaped into a gouge chisel and turn up two new handles.

Hunted around for some suitable timber to make handles then realized I had stashed away, above my head some old curtain poles they could have been a bit bigger in circumference but never mind the first of the two handles have turned out not too bad at all see photos. any comments welcome.

First photo show from the left short length of the pole before turning The new handle when finished in the middle the pattern which I copied from and on the right the two chisel which are to have the new handles fitted. the second photo showing pattern and a new handle. The last two photos showing the finished handles and with tangs fitted as there are today and being used.