Read the lumberjack article. I really liked it. You do good work.



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-------- Original message --------
From: Troy Livingston 
Date: 3/19/19 20:26 (GMT-05:00)
To: Old Tools New Server 
Subject: Re: [OldTools] 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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