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268140 Troy Livingston <horologist@w...> 2019‑03‑20 Re: Tool Disposition Abbreviations NIWIG and NTGBITC
Answers a little delayed by a trip to Baltimore.

          Esther asks:
           " What is the dark (blue?) banding on the ferrule?  How did 
you do it? "

The blue is heat blued steel. I blued the entire thing and then polished 
it away from the areas that I wanted bare.

           Claudio also asked about the details of construction.

  This can be found here:
<https://www.lumberjocks.com/projects/111682>


           Tom, observed the similarity to a leather braiding fid that 
he uses for sewing books and discusses the shape of the point.
           " The point is actually a highly refined shape, thin enough 
to go between threads but not so thin that it pierces a thread, 
spreading enough to push the threads away from
             each other but not so spread that it jams, and flat to 
reduce friction but not too flat."

I had struggled a bit over the sharpness of the point as well. Careful 
questioning, long in advance, made things easier. It turned out that she 
was happy with the shape of the awful tool she had damaged while 
punching a hole in some leather. However, while this is a handy tool for 
poking holes, mostly she uses it to guide the fabric into the sewing 
machine needle, keeping fingertips out of harms way.


I did post it to the group shortly after completing the project and Jim 
Thompson liked it so much he offered to send me a burnisher / birdcage 
awl set but alas he never got the chance.

Troy

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