{"id":878,"date":"2009-11-20T17:51:58","date_gmt":"2009-11-20T21:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/?p=878"},"modified":"2021-09-19T18:52:22","modified_gmt":"2021-09-19T22:52:22","slug":"shopmade-scratch-awl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/shopmade-scratch-awl\/","title":{"rendered":"Shopmade Scratch Awl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/scratch_awl.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-879\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/scratch_awl-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"picture of scratch awl\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>A scraggly old broken spring hook (tool &#8220;G&#8221; at <a href=\"http:\/\/crawfordtool.com\/springhooks2.html\">this link<\/a>), with the broken off end roughly resharpened to a point, served as a scratching tool for many years. Now, with the ability to neatly grind metal, and a little scrap of oak, it takes new form, a finished scratch awl. There&#8217;s really not much to it. I turned the handle in a small model making lathe. The awl itself is that old tool reground and polished.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toolsforworkingwood.com\/Merchant\/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&amp;Store_Code=toolshop&amp;Product_Code=ST-MAF.XX&amp;Category_Code=THS\">3M microabrasive film<\/a> is fantastic for polishing. The ferrule was donated by a self-sacrificing Pentel mechanical pencil. Finish is several coats of danish oil.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, it is small. It fits the palm easily. As shown in this picture, I was using it to prick through a paper pattern to prepare for cutting a boat part.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A scraggly old broken spring hook (tool &#8220;G&#8221; at this link), with the broken off end roughly resharpened to a point, served as a scratching tool for many years. Now, with the ability to neatly grind metal, and a little scrap of oak, it takes new form, a finished scratch awl. There&#8217;s really not much [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,19],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-878","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-hand-tools","7":"category-shopmade","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=878"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8223,"href":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878\/revisions\/8223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}