Where to get this brass fitting?

[MrDave]

Here is the link for the photo of the item.

Leather Craft Eur France Style Prismatic Awl Edge Knife Random Color | eBay


I would like to make an awl using the brass fitting he has. Search the web and could not find anything close.

Thanks, Dave

 

[Skie_M]

Tear down a pool cue for the brass ferrule that connects top and bottom ....

The male connector has a hole drilled through it.


You may be able to just buy the ferrules at a pool cue repair place.

 

[Dalecamino]

That looks like a fun project to make on my metal lathe.

 

[Phillip Kelley]

P034 Jt. Collar Brass Joint 0.86 inch O.D. - Pool Cue Making Supplies

Under Pool Cue Making Supplies: joint pins....

These mite work...I think I will order a set & see.....

 

[MrDave]

how it may be done!

First thanks for all of your replies.

here is the link to someone that make one

Making An Ice Pick – The Small Workshop

I guess you have to make it.

thanks, dave

 

[MrDave]

link to youtube video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3okdxE3YQU

 

[monophoto]

You might look also at the couplers sold by Lee Valley for use in making walking sticks

 

[oldtoolsniper]

Here is one of many leather stitching awl handles I've turned. The brass ferrule before the collet is a brass compression fitting for plumbing. It's designed like a nut to tighten with a wrench, a file makes them round pretty quick.

Find two pieces that screw together in the plumbing section, turn the flat spots to round and you are may have something that will work.


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[oldtoolsniper]

This one the compression fitting is easier to see. The handle on this one is an old leather belt compressed on a thru shaft with a 20 ton hydraulic press I built for smooshing things like this together.

Turn a stub tenon and thread the fitting on to your work with some epoxy, then turn the flats off the fitting.


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[oldtoolsniper]

Broken baseball bat turned into a spoon gouge handle.

You can see the plumbing fitting in the raw on this one. Now jut find two that screw together, they already have a hole through them too.


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[dogcatcher]

Go with the hexagon sided tool handle like Old Tool Sniper posted, they don't roll off the work table. Gives a real classic vintage look tp the tool. There are several tutorials on hexagon shaped handles on Google.