I agree - have to be turned right down for use on wood, and on soft woods an
auto punch can be aggressive.  But for antler?  or horn?  or bone?    And for
aligning screws in hinges I find it a useful tool, quicker than a bradawl, and
good at locating a centre.  Not that I’m advocating the abandonment of bradawls.
They have their part to play in severing wood fibres and producing a pilot hole,
which a centre punch will never do.

Just one more instance of tools finding alternative employment if you don’t give
them enough interesting work to do.


Richard WIlson
Yorkshireman Galoot