[TheForge] star drill reworking

[lee robbins]

Larry Brown wrote:
lot of old star drills were s series steels  and are
quickly converted
 to 
slitting chisels etc and are real cheap at flea
markets as no one
 remembers 
what they are for. I have heard some great
descriptions

I second the question as to typical composition,
having also gotten a number of these at auction.
Are they  one type of steel throughout so you could
cut off the star and re-use the shaft as punches? 

Lee Robbins


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