| Project by Dave G | posted 132 days ago | 409 views | 1 time favorited | 5 comments |  |
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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.
-- Dave, New England - “We are made to persist. that's how we find out who we are.” ― Tobias Wolff
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Marcus
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#1 posted 132 days ago
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.
Jim Jakosh
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#2 posted 132 days ago
Nice one, Dave!!................Jim
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#3 posted 131 days ago
Catchy title…. Very Nice AWL that ends well.
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Dave G
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#4 posted 131 days ago
I gave wrong dimensions in the original post. Here’s a sketch with the correct dimensions.
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#5 posted 131 days ago
Very nice looking tool, beautiful handle and comfortable to hold.
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