Thank you for the dimensions Timid Toad.
If anyone can find a density for A1 tool steel, or any spec for A1 tool steel I would be very interested, especially it's machining characteristics. By my calculation it needs to be around 10.8g - 11g/cm3 to achieve the 120grain point weight for the given dimensions above.
It’s been 30 years since I did metallurgy but google appears to be unaware of A1 tool steel
A1 normally refers to Type 303 stainless; the air hardened carbon series start at A2 and go up from there. T1 appears to be one of the densest (and toughest) at 8.67g/cm[SUP]3[/SUP] - mainly due to the fact that it’s 18% tungsten! I can’t get my head around the different dimensions of the CX stainless vs tool steel points.
Having said all that, for the difference in price between tool steel points and tungsten I’d get the tungsten ones every time. Saving money when putting together a set of X10s seems a bit of an oxymoron.