Direct Bolt-In Awl for Wave/Charge

[evil510]

Hey gang,

Evil here again with another mod. With all of the current projects I have going on, I probably shouldn't even be messing with little projects like this. However, I had a leftover awl from another project just sitting there begging for me to mod it. I absolutely love my Wave with the monster sized super awl that I fabricated for it. Some have expressed that they too would like an awl for their Wave. The monster sized awl I made is not a direct bolt in because of clearance issues and the tool itself had to be modded. If I made one of these to sell/trade, it would not fit anyway unless the tool had been clearanced. I know some have made a makeshift awl by reshaping the large flat driver. This is a proper, full sized awl from a ST300 that I reshaped, reprofiled and tapered (length kept intact) to be a direct swap into a Wave with no modifications to the tool. I actually have absolutely no use for this because I custom make my own awls from scratch. A possible trade is already in progress so I can obtain parts I could actually use for other pending projects. I have an extra Surge awl staring at me now.....

~ evil ~



Close up view of work on the handle end. Reshaped to fit Wave. New nail indent cut. Fully polished.....


Close-up of backside.....


Close-up of frontside, cutting edge sharpened.....


Installed and deployed, backside.....


Installed and deployed, frontside.....


Installed and folded into Wave.....


Folded. View of nail indent.....

[glorn]

Is it for sale?

[Mike, Lord of the Spammers!]

Bloody nice work that mate

[BlueDot]

Your craftsmanship is beyond reproach.  How did you make the 'cutting edge' along the side ?

[Charger]

Amazing as usual!  I hope it finds a good home

[nuphoria]

 

Absolutely top notch!

[evil510]

Final touch to match the standard finish of all of the implements. Bead blasted to give it a nice matte finish.....

~ evil ~


Frontside.....

Backside.....

Is it for sale?

At the moment, no. It is however up for trade.....

Bloody nice work that mate

Thanks Mike!

Your craftsmanship is beyond reproach.  How did you make the 'cutting edge' along the side ?

Thank you Blue Dot. If you are referring to what I called the backside, the ST300 awl already had the channel carved out of it. While I could do this from scratch on a new awl, on this one I just had to touch it up after reshaping and polishing. I use various carbide and diamond bits.....

Amazing as usual!  I hope it finds a good home

Thank you Charger. As far as I am concerned, it already has a home in your Wave/Charge. It is ready to be sent out. Let's get this trading triangle going with DaveK.....

Absolutely top notch!

Thanks Nuphoria!

[Charger]

 

[mac]

hello evil510.
are you making any more of these fantastic awls? 
I could really use a stitching awl for my wave. 

[Syph007]

hello evil510.
are you making any more of these fantastic awls? 
I could really use a stitching awl for my wave. 

You're 4 years too late.  He's not around anymore sorry.

[tattoosteve99]

hello evil510.
are you making any more of these fantastic awls? 
I could really use a stitching awl for my wave. 

You could use one from a rebar

[WWW]

You guys are evil!!! And here I was thinking he was back, not that there's anything wrong with the current active modders.

[zoidberg]

I fell for it too. 

[ducttapetech]

gahhhhhh! I thought he was back! This man is pure genius when it come to modding. OH juices, Super Skeletools and so on.

[Toolslinger]

Shame he's not around anymore. I remember lurking here when he was quite active.

[Kampfer]

I always wonder what happened to him, I havent been around long enough to know why he left.

[tattoosteve99]

I had the fortunate pleasure of talking to him shortly before he left. He was quite the modder