Prepare Wood for Handle

the weld perfectly lay down good beads and then use my angle grinder to make a nice flush presentable and pretty now for the handle I use the same leftover scrap pieces I chopped it down about 16 inches long on my mitre station and then ripped it down the middle to create two mirror images of each other and now I've found the middle of it and then here's the tricky part you have to create a channel than the middle to fit the shaft in so I used a rotary burr it's a