The SA-3v2 Bridge City Bent Tip Scratch Awl is unique. When you need to scribe a line in a confined space, the bent tip ensures your line stays true and on target. Often trying to make a mark inside a box or drawer or for particularly fine dovetail tails only a bent tip will allow sufficient access. The bent tip also offers an ergonomic advantage, eliminating the need for you to bend your wrist to bring weight to bear thus reducing stress and fatigue. Overall length is approximately 200mm with a CNC-turned and anodised aluminium handle and a hardened Titanium point. Scratch awls are traditional tools used to scribe a line in timber, generally marking with the grain and occasionally across the grain. The line a scratch awl leaves is finer than a pencil mark in much the same way a marking knife leaves a finer line across the grain. Cabinetmakers commonly use scratch awls to mark dovetail pins, the fine point giving easy access between the tails. Leather workers use scratch awls to trace patterns onto leather. They are sometimes used to scribe lines in sheet metal.
