Custom Saw Blade Handle made with Moldable Plastic

For this Intractable, I turned to my Dad for inspiration and implementation. Last week I bought some InstaMorph moldable plastic on Amazon and have been searching for things to make with it. I made a couple of cute functional art things with it, but gave the rest to my dad to see if he had any ideas. Immediately he came up with this one. Apparently he had been waiting to do something with this saw blade he had lying around and was going to fashion something out of wood. He tried InstaMorph instead and was pretty happy with the results. The rest are in his words. :

Step 1: Find a saw blade or tool missing a handle

I trim my trees with a tree limb saw on a long pole. Once in a while I can reach a branch or I am on a ladder and I wanted the same saw blade in a “hand-held” model. I had an extra saw blade, so I thought I would use InstaMorph to make a new handle for the blade.

Comments

[shooby]

I like a wooden handle's ability to absorb sweat, especially with a saw used largely outdoors. I've never handled this plastic, it looks very waxy.

[pfred2]

You should like this handle I made then:

http://img541.imageshack.us/img541/6763/sawh.jpg

It looks nicer since I put a finish on it. But I never took a new picture of it.

[Phil B]

I made a replacement handle out of necessity when a weak plastic handle for a keyhole saw broke.  But, I used steel.  See the Instructable at the link.  Then I went to stores looking for more keyhole saw blades and found they are now nearly non-existent, so I did an Instructable on adapting blades from an electric reciprocating saw, since I already had the saw handle.  But, yours is much more attractive to the eye.

[HobbitComedian]

Ya I saw yours as they are both side links off of this one. Great pictures on those by the way.

[Phil B]

You are way ahead of me. I saw that one of mine was in the related Instructables sidebar, but did not see the first one. Thanks for the comment about the photos.

[dchall8]

I needed this Instructable 3 weeks ago. I ended up buying a new saw. I might add that the new saw (Corona brand from Lowe's) is 10x sharper and faster than the old saw, so that's a good thing.

[HobbitComedian]

Oh man! Well sounds like the new one is working out for you. Good deal. :-)