The hook nose allows you get under the spline, and push it up. One size works on all chairs. You tap the back of the blade with a hammer and it glides on the bottom of the groove to push the old spline up and clean it out. Turn it over and it is the best scraper ever to finish the job.
This handsome caning awl has a fluted hard maple handle with a full length alloy blade, nickel plated ferrule and a plastic protective cap for the blade. Use the caning awl for scribing, perforating, punching, and aligning holes when hand weaving cane. It can also be used for widening holes to make room for additional strands of cane, and lifting loops to help the tying-off process. Technical Details: 6-1/2" long overall Alloy blade runs through the entire length of the handle. Exposed blade length 3-3/4''. Fluted hard maple handle. Includes protective cap for blade tip.
3/16" hardened and tempered steel caning chisel for glue removal. 3/16" wide to fit groove width. Can also be used with 1/4" groove or larger. Has tough translucent plastic handle. Made in USA. (Both sizes shown in photo.)
Curved 1/8" blade easily removes old spline from chairs. Plastic handle.
Give life to old cane furniture as well as weaving seats and backs for new pieces. Traditional techniques and new shortcuts make caning with wicker, rattan, raw-hide, and other materials easy. Useful charts detail how much fiber to buy and what standard lengths are available. “An excellent purchase for any size library.”—Library Journal.
If you're just starting out in chair caning and plan to do more, you need these tools. These are Made in the USA superb quality tools. One caning awl, one cane packing tool, one 3/16" caning chisel, one 1/8" caning chisel and a bone awl. Chisels are for cane webbing work. The awl and cane packing tool are for hand-caning. The bone awl is indispensable for seat weaving. $43.20 if purchased separately. Comes in plastic carton.
Caning Needle makes weaving in the strands faster and easier. Snake the needle through the strands, thread the eye and pull needle across the frame. 21 inches long. Size of eye: 1/8 x 3/32 inch.
Contains all the material and instructions needed to hand-cane a chair. Includes fine chair cane, binder cane, awl, and pegs. Illustrated instruction book gives step-by-step directions which lead to a professional looking caned chair seat. Great way to begin learning to produce beautifully caned projects. Conventional weave shown in the background is for illustration purposes and is not included.
Outlasts Natural Rush. Our fiber rush is made from the highest quality paper. The average chair seat requires approximately 400' of fiber rush. Diameter is 5/32". Brown - to resemble antique seats.
Available in Medium (Rockler #41160) and two grades of Fine (Rockler #s 41152 and 41145). Use on chairs or furniture with holes around the perimeter of the caned area. Each hank contains approximately 1,000 lineal feet, enough to cane two to three chair seats. Binder is included with each hank. Price per hank.
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