application: used as gages, ground pins or raw materials for making tool bits and other cutting tools for use as inexpensive gauge pins, guide pins, specialty dowels pins or similar applications can be machined into specialty cutting tools or tool bits, custom punches or specialized guide pins useful for jigs and fixtures where specific pin sizes are needed as guides, locators or support features: ground to a true cylindrical form throughout their complete length, without any taper hardened and ground and furnished in standard sizes