AWLS, The Movie: From Trees to Handles, Satisfying Craftsmanship
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- Опубликовано: 28 ноя 2019
- Making leather sewing awls with various kinds of gathered wood. Available in my webstore @ www.skillcult.com/store These are mostly designed for sewing braintanned buckskin, but I use them for other things as well.
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Nice awls.
Unsolicited comment. I have one of these awls that I bought from Skillcult a year and a half ago. I cherish it. Very beautiful. Thanks Stephen.
Thank you :)
From one Turner to another, nice work.
thank you. I'm mostly self taught doing this. I'm sure a lot better than I used to be. I started with just scraping mostly and using the gouge more like a scraper a lot. But at some point I discovered I could use it the way I'm using it and leave these burnished surfaces. I'm still pretty dangerous with a skew though trying to do a lot of elevation changes.
That was so satisfying to watch. The up close footage of the lathe and techniques was just awesome!
If y’all want a hand crafted item. I have an awl Steven made .. I got one a few years ago. Works great. Just one mans opinion mine
Joe
Excellent craftsmanship mate ✅✅
Damn, you got skills!😝
That was a real pleasure to watch! Very ASMR and impressive the skill and steady hand. Love the photo at the end.
Thanks :)
Awesome! I could watch this for hours!
I actually recorded a ton of footage I didn't use. I was thinking of making a long version just for people to zone out on of turning something like 5 in a row. Or doing that some other time with better sound. The lathe sound is actually very soothing on the video.
Really amazing stuff fella. A comprehensively pitch perfect motion from start to finish. Love it.
Nice work!
Wonderful craftmanship!
You are a living Jefferson treasure Steven. Thank you for all you share.
Beautiful work Steven. Wonderful video too. Happy Holidays!
I just received my Awl yesterday and really dig it. I purchased it for my wife for Christmas and now I'm going to order a second for myself. I love my tools. It is what brought me to find SkillCult to begin with. My awl will give me a smile every time I pick it up. Thank you for sharing all that went into these with us.
Second one in the mail! Thanks :)
SkillCult I was stoked to find it in the box today. Thank you brother and Merry Christmas.
another ai gotta learn jist put it on the list,,,,,thank ya fer the video
Very nice work and satisfying video to watch.
Awlrighty then, thanks Steven!
❤️ me some cork sheaths! I just started using cork for my a couple of my leather working tool sheaths that I lost. Nice work and I really like the handle design.
Pretty nice alternative to some certain brass handled awls... ;)
brass doesn't sound very comfortable to use.
Very Nicely Done Steven! Thank You Kindly! DaveyJO
Such a little thing , but so great working ,.........
That's what she said. Ha ha, no, kidding. really....
I've learned so much from your channel, like you I want to make everything myself, but I had to get one of these beauties.
Ha, cool. Thanks :) I like to have several girths of awl, up to very large, so plenty of opportunity to make more. I used to make them out of large needles, and some in the forge with uncoiled furniture springs.
@@SkillCult I will definitely do that. I don't have a lathe but hey, skills over gear!
@@homemademedieval3935 Few people need a lathe. I actually only got it originally to do this and rarely use is for anything but handles. I carved all my early awl handles. One trick, drill the hole when the handle is just roughed out. It can be surprisingly hard to drill them straight. Then you can carve around the bit alrignment.
@@SkillCult Just got my awl from the mailman, absolutely love it! Great craftsmanship!
Delicious.
That iron wire trick is dope. Do different metals produce different effects?
No, it's just the amount of friction and heat conductivity. I tried copper this time because there was a piece handy and it conducted heat away too fast and right into my fingers! Also, there was not enough friction. Old rusty pitted iron is perfect I think.
@@SkillCult I've seen it done with string; probably sisal.
Just a little concerned about where u obtained all those ( used ? ) wine bottle corks ... cheers new zealand 😄
Unfortunately, I didn't drink all that. They are from some inlaws. It's wine country 🍷
Just two observations:
1) Wouldn't it be better for the workflow if you just did them all in a row to say 75% and then finish them one by one?
2) I'd pound in the awl blade first and then sand the knob surface. If you mar the surface you won't have to repair the finish.
I've tried a lot of things. I'm not saying that I couldn't increase efficiency, but this works pretty well. The problem with doing more than one is destabilization. If the spindle is long with thin spots, it wobbles and you can't apply pressure to it. So I would have to leave the interspaces at the transitions pretty big, then you have to pick up a bunch of different tools to thin the juncture and finish it anyway. Each end still has to get cut off, centered with the lathe spinning, then drilled. The only real advantage I'd see is using one tool repeatedly, without having to switch tools quite as much, but it would not be that significant a time saving. Also, if I screw something up, I can adapt and cut it off some and return it. Once you mark them off, you are committed to that spacing. If the pounding was a problem, I'd do something about it, but the mallet is very smooth and doesn't seem to be a problem.
@@SkillCult Thanks for your insight. Saw it with a Chinese bowl turner, he had a whole row of bowls lined up. But then again, my own turning experience is very limited.
@@kaizoebara That makes sense more maybe as the joints would be large and stable, the size of the bottom of a bowl. You'll notice here that I did that transition in two steps, because almost everything needs to be done before the cut off point is turned down. That is just for strength and stability.
@@SkillCult Thanks again for the clarification.
Do you not have any awls in stock? Couldn’t find it on the website.
skillcult.com/store yeah, they are there. Let me know if you have any problem finding them.
Frumos, ce fel de strung aveti?
Delta.
Your link to your store is "dead". I'm curious about the skillcult logo; is there a story to it? I'm sure you answer that question alot but I have yet to stumble across the answer.
It's the right link, they just made it unclickable. they want you to stay on the yt. I was playing with some ink and brushes for a logo and that just happened. I think there is some symbolic meaning having to do with control of elements, but the box is open.
@@SkillCult that's what I mean, all the other links are clickable but yours is not. Anyways that symbol is growing on me