A Soft Awl is a valuable addition to your leatherwork tool set, 
 
The Soft Awl has a softened edge down its length as well as a it's tip so as not to tear the leather or distort the shape of the hole.
 
Designed by Nigel to enable you to open pre-pricked stitching holes that may have closed up, to make stitching more accessible. For instance, making those fiddly back stitches easier at the end of a row of stitching, by opening up the hole at the same angle that it was originally made, 
 
Each Soft Awl features a highly polished 2" saddler's harness awl blade fitted with your choice of Anjan, Ebony or Rosewood handle, finished with a rounded polished brass ferrule engraved with the Better Together logo. These dense hardwoods give the tool a reassuring weight and balance in the hand.