On 2018-10-15 1:31 PM, Bill Webber wrote:
> Poor form again, continuing my own discussion, but...  Mr. Hilton was 
> consistent in the way he made his dividers and partitions for his 
> tools.  Specifically, if the tool was round, his dividers were round. 
> If the tool had square shanks, the dividers were square or 
> rectangular.  So the tool is just as likely something with a square or 
> rectangular shank and not a gimlet at all.
>
> Bill W. 


Is it likely he had a mixed set of larger wooden-handled and smaller 
metal-handled gimlets like these?

https://www.garrettwade.com/set-of-seven-steel-twist-gimlets-gp.html

Don

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