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This homemade kettlebell handle design has been on the net for quite some time now. I don't know who exactly came up with this first, as pictures like this are mostly everywhere, but I first seen it on this site here.
It's a very ingenious and well-thought design.
The one I made above feels pretty solid.
It's supposed to be loadable, but it's actually only un-loadable. If you can place 4 x 5kg plates in, then you have a 21-22kg kettlebell max. Using 10kg plates would need a taller and a bit wider structure, and it won't be something practical to work with, too cumbersome. I think the most you can expect from this model is 4x5kg plates. You can, to an extent, work up to it if 21-22kg is too heavy to start with. |
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This particular model weights approx 16kg, using 3 x 5kg plates. It used to be loaded with 4 x 5kg plates but then I thought it was a waste to have 20kg of relatively good weights always on this thing. As a note, the weights are easily releasable, but the general tendency is tu leave these sorts of handles always loaded. I had 3 of these 5kg plates lying about so I used them instead. I don't know where I bought them, they are different from all the others and I don't like them much. I don't even remember if I had in fact 4 of these, but they wouldn't all fit in since they have a sort of hub, so I decided to put just 3 in. You can see from the pictures above and below that I used many washers to prevent the disks from clapping around and wobbling around. Obviously my model isn't usable for much besides swings. With the plates so separated and even on a rather narrow plane, a snatch could be rather painfull.
The bottom T joints and end caps sticking out make it for a rather wide stance even for swings. You always fear banging something on your legs.
There's another model further down the page here I think is a bit better as it's less wide with not much sticking out.
I'm soon going to build an improved model from these parts and put up a new page. |
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