I recently branched out into a new hobby, reloading. I find that I really enjoy it but one thing I noticed right away is that the wooden ball on top the handle of my press hurt my hand after a couple hundred pulls. Here's the old handle:





I tried to take the ball off but I'm not sure how it's attached. I don't see any threads and it doesn't turn with the torque I can supply by hand. It may be glued on and I didn't want to force it and break it, so I thought I'd make a whole new shaft and handle. I had some 1/2" rod stock on hand so I cut that to length and threaded it for this Hurst T handle that also was on hand. It's much better now, but I find myself making vroom-vroom noises while loading.