Designing, Cutting, and Attaching the Handle

rag and I was ready to drive now comes the handle the handle is probably the funnest part of the project let your imagination run wild I basically drew out the highest and the lowest part of the handle and I kind of tinkered with a lot of different designs and patterns once I landed under one I brought it to my bandsaw now I used my 3/4 inch blade simply because my smaller blade broke right before this step and so I kind of make made it work all the choppy hard cuts I basically cleaned them up on my spindle sander once everything was done I wanted to create this chamfered edge throughout the entire handle to kind of give it that smoother feel in your hand and to accomplish this all I did was simply hold at about roughly 45 degree angle to the abrasive part of the spindle sander or the belt and I just kind of manually created them basically I balled it it's not super perfect but it looks great once I was happy with the overall style and shape of the handle it was ready for installation now oak tends to crack when screws go into it if the holes aren't pre-drilled so I pre-drilled some pilot holes on both the cylinder of the beer stein and the handle and then applied wood glue and a half inch screw on both the top and the bottom part of the handle and installed it that way once ensuring the