Glad you liked it Wilson. Cheers

Thanks jonka1, glad it was useful. Yes, the knife is a good one :)

Just discovered (a year later) that I replied to your comment with my wife's account! Must have been out somewhere and used the 'phone ; we only have one between us as we're always together :D

Glad you enjoyed it John :) And with your other post; blacksmithing certainly is a tools creation trade, making beautiful/functional items with the mind and the hands paramount. Cheers

Glad I'm achieving my goal Phil :)

Glad it was useful Anthony :)

Thanks Slow. Glad you liked the video. K&S Metals are available at a lot of retailers (if you're not in a hard lockdown area, though ordering on line is the other option). Here's K&S page showing sellers in the US), and if you scroll down the page it has the international dealers. www.ksmetals.com/deals Cheers

yep ordered s few, the stores out here are useless.

Oh, that's a pity. All the Best with the new crazy hobby :)

Agree, these videos are pure gold.

@@juslitor Thanks very much :)

Thank you kindly

Glad to help Benny.

G'day Jonas, Watch and Clockmaker's broaches are different to jewelling reamers. I was making mine based on commercially produced ones I own. It would be faster using soft steel, but I don't have the set up yet to do case hardening; I could have annealed the music wire, and then re-hardened and tempered it after shaping, but I don't feel that my skill level with those processes is quite up to snuff yet. Cheers

G'day htc. Glad you liked the video. My only concern would be that drill bits are on the brittle side, and when they snap, they chip, and things get interesting for your eyes very quickly, and you can't anneal HSS drill rod. I speak from experience. I had a drill snap on me and a razor sharp fleck lodged in the border of eyelid between the eyelashes and the eyeball, in line with my pupil. I was squinting at the time. I resolved that day to never drill without safety goggles again. The music wire I use is quite cheap. A 3 foot length, the diameter of the one I used in the video, would be around $4 Australian, and will make quite a few broaches, spade drills, balance staffs, and on and on and on :) All the Best Cheers.

Thanks for your reply@@theselectiveluddite. And thanks for warning about HSS chipping. I got some old watchmaking tools on my hands. On is quite large and rusty broach. I'd like to restore it even I don't really need it as it is quite large. I'll definitively will give a try for the method you shared.

@@htchtc203 Nice. I also have quite a lot of antique watch and clockmaker's broaches, a fair proportion of which have dull edges. You can see this by rotating the broach under a light. A dull edge will reflect light between the facets, where as a sharp edge will not show up at all. I used the method in the video (but with a hardwood block with fine tapered grooves at one end and holding the broach in my fingers) to sharpen a bunch of super fine watchmaker's broaches (like the one I show early on), using a very fine diamond hone (only about 5 strokes per face) followed by a small piece of slate. I used the method of pressing down firmly with the hone/stone to keep the face being worked on level.