How Do I Make A Perfect Line Of Holes With My Awl?

[Dwight]

Actually the drill press may be not needed if the worker is really good at using an electric hand drill. This is what I do. I also reverse the nails so that they exit on the marks, . . . and if one of the nails isn't quite perfectly straight, . . . a pair of long nose pliers can put him where he needs to be.

Cutting off the head of the nail, . . . gives one the EXACT "drill" to make perfect holes.

Holding the drill perfectly perpendicular is the key.

The perfect size holes made by the drill, allows the marker nails to be driven in without splitting the narrow piece of wood or dulling their points. I have some other uses for this concept too, . . . making perfectly matched patterns for cutting, . . . sewing, . . . carving, . . . etc. Once the pattern is made and adjusted to what the user wants, . . . it can be put in a drawer or hung up until needed again, . . . the "pattern" it produces will always be the same.

May God bless,

Dwight

[Tomcat1066]

Drilling pilot holes in the wood would stop the formation I think, but that puts us back to the drill press, doesn't it? I need to talk to the local machine shop about grinding a wheel pizza cutter.

FWIW, that's kind of how I envisioned the whole thing going in the first place. I'm not sure that that was what was intended though.

Actually the drill press may be not needed if the worker is really good at using an electric hand drill. This is what I do. I also reverse the nails so that they exit on the marks, . . . and if one of the nails isn't quite perfectly straight, . . . a pair of long nose pliers can put him where he needs to be.

Cutting off the head of the nail, . . . gives one the EXACT "drill" to make perfect holes.

Holding the drill perfectly perpendicular is the key.

Maybe it's just me, but that's still relying on a flawed human being (no offense intended, we're all imperfect creatures after all) to me nearly mechanical precision. A drill press can be set up to do that. A hand drill, not so much.

Of course, I may be being overly pessimistic here as well. After all, how precise does it really need to be? If it looks straight to you, it'll look straight on the leather I guess

Still, I figure it's worth pointing out

[Suze]

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don't know how many "dots per inch" this would be but it is cheap?

and you could always skip or cut off every other tooth