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17 Aug 2016

Don't waste your money on expensive pricking irons.

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My go to pricking iron the last 4 years has been this one from goods japan:


It is actually a stitching chisel but I have never used it as such. I just tap it lightly and make the holes with an awl just like you would with a pricking iron.


The specs on the iron says that it will make holes 4 mm apart resulting in 6,35 spi. I then bought one with 6 teeth and found out that my old iron was wrongly spaced. It actually had around 4,2 mm
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