[TheForge] blackened steel finish

[Jerry Frost]

Like Mike says it's a blunted awl or icepick-like tool that is used to lift 
wool out of the card teeth on a drum carder. The commercial models are 
straight needles on a handle very like a blunt ice pick or long awl. Mine 
are long flattened "S" curves so they lever the wool out with minimum 
strength and point pressure on delicate lady hands.

Jer
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If it ain't forged
It ain't real
wrought iron is
The Frostworks



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> Okay, Jerry, I'll bite. What's this doffer you're hawking to fiber folk?
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> Mark Williams
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> Snow Hill, Maryland