Shovel handle ??

 General store few miles away that has big rack of all kind handles.Store goes back over 100 years .Owner past last month hope family carries on .E N Washburn General Store.

 To good throw in scrap and a one of these days job . 
I had garden tools for years that belong to my folks (from the 50's) then somehow in all the changes of storage and use of shop - things have become disposable items as handles are rough and open grained wood or fiberglass now that has turned from yellow to a off white . ( Somehow my sons seem to have adopted the everything is replaceable tomorrow attitude) Sure isn't something they were taught by me !
  When i was doing the sewer work needed some shovel handles and sent oldest son to fleet farm to get a couple handles (they still stock them) he came back with one handle and about 6 low cost shovels - seems 2 shovels were the same price as 1 handle - but it seems those handles would not fit into the good heavy shovels  
 Remember one day my uncle was using a shovel that was my grand dads - he finished digging with it he scraped it clean - grabbed oil can and oiled the blade , then hung it up in machine shed - said his dad had whipped his but when he was young for leaving a shovel outside when he finished using it and the lesson has stuck for 60 years, well in his memory  

 My son bought a shoval with a fiberglass handle,,,got done with it and forgot it on the sunny side of his house  and the FG ones are even worse than wooden ones bout falling apart when left in the sun,,,,,,,

 I like Leon's idea of the varnish,,but you can't beat puttin em up INSIDE,,,,,