Stitching Awl's:
Use:
Stitching Awl: Saddlers and leather workers typically use a sharpened diamond cross section awl to stab leather holes, for hand sewing. Hand sewing typically is done with two needles to create a stitch were the threads cross behind each other. This will be a stronger sewn joint than a lock stitch created with a sewing machine or a lock stitch awl.
Lock Stitch Awl: An awl with a needle hole in the tip and typically some provision for thread. This is a hand stitching tool used to make a lock stitch similar to a sewing machine. This was often used to make quick repairs to a leather item.
Toolmaker: Unknown
- A variety of unkown saddle and harness maker stitching awls.
Toolmaker: C. A. Myers Co.
Inventor: Murry R. Botkin
- C. A. Myers Co. "MYERS Famous Lock Stitch SEWING AWL".
- Awl body marked "The Awl For All", "REG. U. S. PAT. OFF.","PAT'D MARCH 31 1903 " " 28 1905." on one side "C.A. MYERS CO. CHICAGO" on the other.
- I believe this tool to be based on:
- U.S. Patent No. 00723981, Dated March 31, 1903, "Sewing-Awl", Murry R. Botkin, of Kokomo Colorado, Assignor of one-half to James W. Dowd, of Kokomo, Colorado.
- U.S. Patent No. 00786000 for a "Sewing-Awl", dated March 28, 1905, by Murry R. Botkin, of Denver, Colorado.
- A slightly later version of the C. A. Myers Co. "MYERS Famous Lock Stitch SEWING AWL" complete, with directions and origional shipping box.
- Awl body marked " PAT'D MARCH 28 1905.", and the shipping box mailed with 1908-9 vintage, 4 cent stamp, to a J. Y. King of West Liberty, Ohio.
Toolmaker: Stewart Manufacturing Co.
- Stewart Manufacturing Co. "Speedy Stitcher SEWING AWL" complete, with directions, lock stitch awl.
- This I believe to be a newer tool 1950's or 60's vintage.
Toolmaker: Unknown
- Lock stitch awl, unkown maker.
