[TheForge] star drill reworking

[Larry Brown]

One steel throughout, grind opposite legs off for a quick slitting chisel. 
They are cheap enough to play around with
L Brown

At 07:03 AM 1/29/2008 -0800, you wrote:
>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