Boy: everybody, it's not a job with a guy just to probably go and have mopped, barely remember, sleaze or using a Model T steampunk technology. But I kind of won the argument because he ran out of power and his power drill. And I kept right on going. So I thought I'd show you guys this and just sort of preach the gospel a lot of this old-school tech. This is called uh. This way of drilling is called a brace and bit. This is the brace is the bits these augers, as they're known, are of kind of beautiful they're beautiful objects, all of their own sculptors should love this. It'S got the helix for carrying away waste, but the way it works is unlike a conventional drill that it's used with a power tool. These have a screw on the front called a snail, and this tapered screw bites into the wood and pulls the auger forward as it rotates these. These slicers on the side cut, cut a cylindrical hole and these chisels shave it out. So you just continuously slice a ring and shave the stuff out, as the drill is dragged forward and you do have to put some weight behind it, not necessarily too much because the the snail is providing a lot of the forward pressure. But if you don't put some weight behind, though a larger one, it'll it'll just strip out the threads and and then the snail is no longer helping you, but anyway, let's put this in here I'll, just I'll just bore a hole or two with it and let's Compare it, no, here's a quick close-up of some of the cutting tips. You know some have dual cutters on the side to cut the cylinder different pitch of threads on the snail but they're all comes and more beautiful things. Compare it no conventional way of doing this, which is for modern people. There'S a three quarter inch spade bit. I think I'll put a three quarter inch auger in there, so we have a fair comparison, but there's a three quarter inch spade bit. It'S really just it's kind of a nasty little thing in comparison, I mean check out the beauty of the old ones. This is a flat, it's a rod forged you know banged flat and forged into shape, with with two little sharp tips and a kind of a quasi chisel here to shave away the waste, as this just flat point guides it into the wood, and they do work For sure they're, not bad yeah, this looks like a three quarter inch auger a little newer. I think I actually have two or three of these that I've paid for like a hundred years ago - 100, probably 50, when I was just starting in but other than that they're all free. I got junk piles. Nobody uses them anymore for reasons it first spade bit: fair trial, [, Music, ], [, Music, ], [, Music ]. In those I felt down the bottom a couple times to see if the tip was popping out, because with any of these with it, when using a spade bit earth or bracelet bit, you want to make sure that the flip, the wood over and drill from the Other side he'll end up just blowing out a standard operation, but this was faster than that was just you know. Anybody could do that, so it made a very decent, comparable hole. Now, usually, usually the edges are actually cleaner. These edges are a little rough. I think because the wood is there's a spot in the wood, but let's, let's, let's move on so just as fast, it's obviously nice, but nowadays they're essentially free track this stuff. This bore significantly bigger hole. I think you're gon na try this one, even though it looks not quite as sharp there pain in the neck to sharpen just takes a couple of minutes there, but they do they sharpen reliably they're, not it takes longer to sharpen a little bit than they than A conventional twister, oh, but but they're easy. It'S you get more consistent results with less skill, so here's a an hour into a bigger hole. This is an check, [, Music ]. It'S going so fast I'll make sure I just run it through the bottom yeah. https://www.techtricksclub.net/how-to-fix-discord-no-route-error/ couldn't have done better with the power drill. That'S a good sized hole, that's a lot of wood. You can also these things tend to run long. You can also. I could drill all the way through this end and couldn't do that with a spade bit anyway. Yeah, that's nice otters easy to come by. Let me show you this. This is sort of a secret ace in the hole. Is it the missing spade bit is always the one you need. If you have one of these bees come with usually two or three different teeth in here watch this loosen the back, and this little thing here adjusts this tooth. So basically, I have infinitely adjustable augur right here, I'm just going to set it for a random size. That'S about 5/8, bigger than any of the holes, I've controlled so far. No, that means that if you have your set of augers as long as you have, one of these you'll always have whatever size you need now. These these are not really great for every hole. You want to drill it's better if you drilling them 3/4 inch holes to have 3/4 inch auger, but they come in a variety of sizes. This one's set to quite a small size for it. This is one in 3/4 inches. This is set to drill now, but it's slot. If I slide this out of a goal at 3 inches, the 3 inches is getting pretty athletic, bore a three inch in diameter hole and it takes a little bit of skill, because this only has one arm swinging around. So if you go like this, it'll tend to dig in and and be very hard to turn and raggedy and maybe even break your bit. But but with a little bit of practice, you can actually bore a three inch in diameter hole which is you're getting into real money to buy a three inch in diameter Forstner bit to drill. You know if you just have one hole for say a Locke said or building some piece of sculpture. You just need to bore one one hole through it to clear some wood or something. This is a these are a miracle, because it's every size you need. So, let's just slap this in here and see what happens. This is noticeably bigger than the hole we're going for initiative, the kind of people who use augers instead of Spade bits or the kind of people to get really upset, if you call them the wrong. These are drills there, but let's just see how this works. Now I don't use these a hell of a lot, because I'm not really doing what are you working anymore, but so that there, the sharpness is sort of catch-as-catch-can but - and I haven't set this up right - yeah like that. Okay, do not be careful! Look us straight in it not adjust your angle and, and they they can clog up a little bit, especially they get deeper. They have to do it. As you can see, it's freaking perfect. If you wanted to counter bore holes for to see nuts below the surface of your worktable, anything I get. Things are perfect anyway. Um, that's pretty much all there is to say about these things. I highly recommend them. I think they're great. I think they're they're a beautiful object to work with they're they're pleasant. They don't make that awful, sound and they're highly competitive in terms of speed. With Spade bits they get they're just about as fast, especially if the holes are. You know under an inch. You know an inch and a quarter that range and they're just a joy to use. So I highly recommend these. I think you should haunt your local flea markets and garage sales and buy yourself real nice set of these, and maybe I'll do one on how to sharpen them. They'Re not difficult to show up and they're just a little tedious. But once you get out of like anything else, it's just yeah. I thought I should one last thing because - and this is this - is something really cool about these up bracelet and that is that they do more than Joe holes about 20 years ago, or so I leave myself a 22-foot syllable, there's a kind of book. They know kind of sailor I never really been, but as part of the project, I had hundreds and hundreds of these six six inch lag bolts and man try running these in without it takes like 20 minutes to drive one of these guys, but I very quickly Discovered they could do this hex-head socket wrench in here. These guys are everything else. I ever do totally available with the big-box store and pop it on here. We drill that hole. Now you may say. Well I could do that with my power drill. Indeed, you be red, but you can't do three of these Blackburn battery packs created. You need, like a hand, truck full of charge batteries to do this all day, but this is almost as fast and powerful and you never run out of batteries power I had to. I was basically assembling this [ Music ] and it seems great, but do four or five of these in your charger battery to do four or five more of a tricky battery. This thing is awesome for that, and you can just do it all day long anyway. Just thought I'd throw that last little bit out. You can turn all kinds of things with them that are not. They were never designed to turn like you can even a spade bit enough if you want to they, don't have the right kind of Chuck for this. These are supposed to take tapered Chuck. You keep in a pinch, pretty much anything you can turn until next time.