Turning Punches

I’ve finished reading the Home Machinists Handbook by Doug Briney and am starting on some of the projects. Project 1: Make your own center and prick punches.

prick punch and center punch

All finished except for the heat treating to harden the steel. Each punch was about 0.19 USD worth of steel, plus an hour of (technical, but non-union) labor.

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