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As you can see, it had a broken awl and a piece of bone missing from the pile side. I have made several replacement blades for folders before, but had never made an awl, but decided to "give it a stab", lol. The pictured awl replacement was made from 1095 bar stock. Much like making a blade except when one gets to the flute. I went with the Dremel tool method with the correct radius stone guided by a piece of scrap steel to keep things straight. Heat treating was done as standard for 1095 steel. The bone was patched with AcraGlas, color is not perfect, but close. Now it is in my pocket as an EDC. It joins my other Harness Jack, a Paxton & Gallagher, as the only 2 I have.
