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I have very functional taste. This fits the hand and I like the gradually tapering point - it makes really nice holes.

This awl is made from 4-1/2" of the tail of a 3/32 chainsaw file, a brass compression fitting nut that had a hole to just fit over the rasp, and a scrap piece of 8/4 cherry turned by mounting on the lathe face plate. I used my drill press chuck in the tailstock to drill a 1-1/2" 3/32 hole in the cherry and epoxied the file tail in. I dipped it twice in satin poly.

After grinding the point I heated it using a propane torch to yellow-cherry red and water quenched it. I cleaned it up a bit with a diamond plate.

Thanks for looking.

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My kind of handle, Dave. I've seen a few projects where the handle looks like a miserable fit to the hand, which always confuses me.
 

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Nice one, Dave!!................Jim
 

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Catchy title…. Very Nice AWL that ends well.
 

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I gave wrong dimensions in the original post. Here's a sketch with the correct dimensions.
 

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Very nice looking tool, beautiful handle and comfortable to hold.
 
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