Now that he has a true cylinder, he lays out the shoulders using an identical handle as a pattern… I coach him to rest the pencil on the tool rest like he would a lathe tool…

…and is taught the parting tool and calipers, cutting the cylinder to depth at each shoulder line by transferring measurements from the pattern to the calipers and then to his depth cuts.  Here he is roughing out the tenon for the leather buttons.

Once his depth cuts are complete, I hold the pattern in his eye line as he begins the rough shaping of the handle using the roughing gouge, coaching him to keep his eye on the top line of the turning so he can gage the fairness of his cuts. 

We have added a pencil line on the fat part or “bead” of the handle as the end point of his near cove cut and the starting point of his far cove cut.  The beginnings of his learning to cut coves and beads later using the skew.

We stop at the rough-out stage to mount the leather buttons, leaving all thin sections thick so as to allow clamping.