YouTube video by Kazuma Nishimura showing sharpening of a welting awl
Notes
- diamond point
- mounts in screw-collet haft
- grooved insole leather with groove at edge for testing
- wriggles the awl
- can’t cut paper over cutting mat with tip inverted
- draws marker on point to check sharpening angle
- mounts in vise, pushes 100-grit emery board over the bottom of the point from back to tip
- pushes top of point back and forth over paper at edge of closed vise
- 240, 400, 600 grit progression
- smooths out the sides with same 240-400-600 progression
- Pikal metal polish on insole leather
- pushes awl back and forth in polish, rotating to polish all faces
- puts through hole in leather with polish