[xsailer]

Sitting here thinking of the tools I've bought and which ones I use more than others. One of them is a pair of homebuild fishtail #2 or 3 1/2 and 3/4 wide. I bought them at the Topeka, Ks show this past fall from a vendor. He had been making tools to sell for several years and told me he sold his business location and moved to his garage. Semi retired I think. They are wonderful palm type tools. They have 1/2 and 3/4 commercially stamped on them and look like paddle drills that have been modified. I loveum. I not home so I don't know his name but he's been around apparently a long time. I plan on looking him up and looking at some of the other tools he makes. He and wife had a large folding table full of his modified tools. Gouges of small to medium sizes and bent knives wrapped with taped handles. I know he heat treats them since there are heat markings on the metal.

[dart]

They look well made. Nice. They do look like the spade wood drills modified.

[R-OLDS]

I winter with a guy from Kansas who has some tools that look like the ones you have I believe it is someone in his woodcarving club back home.
I have made a few gouges from spade bits, the metal is high quality tool steel and it works very well as woodcarving tools.

[Capt. Bandaid]

Gadzooks! I saw this man and his tools at the carving show in Dallas 5-6 years ago. One of those things that I saw and said to myself "shucks, I can do that" and never did, of course.