Clear picture or diagram or reshaped diamond awl tip?

[zuludog]

Also this video - 'Overstitch Wheel' by Nigel Armitage

Besides the use of the overstitch wheel it shows very clearly the saddle stitch and the use of an awl, with a good illustration of the awl blade & tip

[GeneH]

8 hours ago, zuludog said:

'How to sharpen leather awl: Dixon Diamond'    parts 1 & 2

'Leather awl blade shape comparison: acute vs rounded tip'

all by leathertoolz

Ha! This "Leather awl blade shape comparison: acute vs rounded tip" is one of the two videos that started this conversation, but I couldn't remember enough to post the link. Thank you.  :-)   I needed to come back here to get some depth and validation.   Glad you posed these links.  His "Dixon Diamond..." videos are really good following his tip comparison video.  

At 2 min into "Dixon Diamond" he draws the perfect diagram showing a edge-on view.  And somewhere I saw a few seconds of someone actually clipping the end off a spear point. Snip!  I do feel fortunate at this point I've gone through the trials of taking a chip out of a 4 mm V parting tool - those are the most challenging tools I've experienced so far, and if I feel the results are worth the fun and effort, cleaning up/minor mods I know I can learn to do.

 

 

Edited November 24, 2018 by GeneH