Got one years ago at an rummage sale just in case. This and an handsaw and draw knife with some skill can produce an most cozy shelter like the one depicted in previous post.
Yeah. Have a fairly nice one I keep as a display piece along with a few other antique hand tools. Really wouldn’t want to use it now; what can I say, I’m lazy.
I have a couple of sizes of brace and a couple of sets of bits and files for sharpening.
Along with a full traditional set of cabinet makers tools circa 1900. I work mostly by hand, but I use my power tools to do the work that apprentices would have done circa 1900, like breaking down lumber and initial surface prep.
Have two sets, well serviced, as well as a couple complete sets of bits. They will be indispensable when there is no power and the batteries in the cordless drill are dead.
Even though we have power and generators and charged batteries for the cordless drills I’m enough of a bastard I made my kids use them when drilling holes in posts for stringing trellis wires in the raspberries etc. just so they know how to use them.
To quote Foghorn Leghorn “I say that woman is as boring as backing into a bit and brace”
Got one years ago at an rummage sale just in case. This and an handsaw and draw knife with some skill can produce an most cozy shelter like the one depicted in previous post.
Yeah. Have a fairly nice one I keep as a display piece along with a few other antique hand tools. Really wouldn’t want to use it now; what can I say, I’m lazy.
Ditto
I used to have one, lost it somewhere in some move long ago.
I still have one that looks like a manual egg beater.
I don’t use it, but I could.
I lost the brace, but STILL have the bits – don’t ask me why.
Yes, I used it as a kid.
Have my grandfathers brace and bits.
I still use mine. I’m that guy.
Me too!
I have a couple of sizes of brace and a couple of sets of bits and files for sharpening.
Along with a full traditional set of cabinet makers tools circa 1900. I work mostly by hand, but I use my power tools to do the work that apprentices would have done circa 1900, like breaking down lumber and initial surface prep.
It makes a very serviceable “screwgun” if you chuck up a phillips or torx bit.
I have a “Speedwrench” to do that. Used it a LOT when working in the pits when I was raching. Yes, I still have it. 3/8″ drive.
When I hired on as a cabinetmaker in 1984, we used a brace & bit to bore the hole in the cabinet floors for plumbing lines.
“Brace and Bit”. My Dad had a set, but I don’t know what happened to it.
Have two sets, well serviced, as well as a couple complete sets of bits. They will be indispensable when there is no power and the batteries in the cordless drill are dead.
Even though we have power and generators and charged batteries for the cordless drills I’m enough of a bastard I made my kids use them when drilling holes in posts for stringing trellis wires in the raspberries etc. just so they know how to use them.
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I have a set which belonged to my great-grandfather. Those old steel bits cut holes through hard, dry oak like the oak was balsa.