Hi ALL,
A friend of mine just gave me one of these (see pic). It’s a clever device that I had never seen before. Care to venture a guess?
Regards,
Bob @ Kidderville Acres
Kidderville, NH
A Woodworkers mind should be the sharpest tool in the shop!
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Looks like a yankee drill.
Correct!
Thanks,
Bob @ Kidderville Acres
Kidderville, NH
A Woodworkers mind should be the sharpest tool in the shop!
Yes, it's a push drill. If you can figure out how to undo the top (hint: that little knurned ring on the base of the handle has internal threads), you may find graduated bits.
http://www.goantiques.com/detail,stanley-yankee-push,1256488.html?source=VYZ4474
Bingo, and that link suggests a price of $88!
Yes, when the owner demonstrated it to me, I was most impressed. He HAD two of them, now I have one. It's in real good condition and has all the bits too!
Regards,
Bob @ Kidderville Acres
Kidderville, NH
A Woodworkers mind should be the sharpest tool in the shop!
it seem clear to me that this is a telescope. be careful not to get poked it the eye by a drill bit!
gmoney,
I tried, after putting on my safety glasses on! How do you work the focusing? I can't see anything through it. Must be a lemon?
Regards,
Bob @ Kidderville Acres
Kidderville, NH
A Woodworkers mind should be the sharpest tool in the shop!
Just another one of those Fad WW tools !! Can I send you my address ;-) I can relieve your problem of storing it.
LUCKY DOG !
Work Safe, Count to 10 when your done for the day !!
Bruce S.
Hi ALL,
BruceS: Looks like I only have a couple years on you, 1946 Model here.
Last week was quite productive:
On Thursday I got a 36" x 48" x 2 /12" butcher block slab out of the landfill where I work. I run the scale and one of the laborers called me on the two-way radio announcing his find. YES, I WANT IT! It's in the shop.
On Saturfday last, I went to a friends house as he said he had a bunch of old tools that he would gladly give me as they were just sitting in his shed gathering dust. "NOT, that's a mortal sin!" Most of the tools belonged to his father who was a cabinetmaker back in the 40's thru the 60's, and most were old then!
We pretty much filled the back of my jeep with all manner of tools, mostly planes, another #78, a #98 & #99, #48, Wards Master #4, Bailey #7, several other #4's, #5's and a Sageant #6, a drawknife, the Yankee, a lathe; sans motor. Now I have two without motors.
Also 7 wood planes, several of which are in sad shape, mostly rotted wood. Yes, I will be replacing same and restore all of them. I'll post pics in another thread sometime today. They're in pretty rough shape, but I love a challenge.
Also, an antique barn peg drilling apparatus. I'm sure there's a proper name for it but I was told that it was used to drill holes in post and beam construction for pegging the joints. I'll post a pic of this tomorrow. The owner wants this back, but I'll clean it up for him.
I traded a rather large stack of FWW duplicate issues that I had. In addition, I'm going to share my shop with him and work together on several projects.
And, we still have to go throught his 40' horse trailer that is nearly full of more old tools. My wife says I have to stop drooling!
Regards,
Bob @ Kidderville Acres
Kidderville, NH
A Woodworkers mind should be the sharpest tool in the shop!
I've wanted one since the first time I saw it used by a cabinetmakerv building my speaker enclosures in 1962. Twenty years later I "justified" the puchase of same; never looked back except in happiness!
When I teach classes, sometimes I'll pull out my egg-beater drill and while reaching down say something like, "I need my variable speed, reversible, cordless, adjustable torque, never needs recharged drill."
Oh, I almost forgot, I got three of these too, different sizes and several braces of different sizes.
Regards,
Bob @ Kidderville Acres
Kidderville, NH
A Woodworkers mind should be the sharpest tool in the shop!
I am also impressed by your hand done drawing and T square. I thought I was the last human left who isn't using CAD. Before they got my medication straightened out I would even ink them with india ink!
Luddites unite!
Frank
PS nice looking whateveritis
Frank,
"Luddites unite" loses some of its snap, when typed on a computer, and transmitted over the internet, don't you think? ;-))
Your neanderthal woodworking friend,
Ray
Yes Ray, but think back just a paltry 20 years ago and we wouldn't know a lot of us luddites. Actually I didn't know I am one! Never knew what a luddite is!
I have tried using CAD packages in the past but it just isn't the same for me. I like to think of hand drawing as a sharpening exercise for the brain. You have to draw the lines to the chosen scale and when you get into fractions................ I ste the scale to each square on the graph paper equals 1/2", seems to work quite well for me.
When milling pieces to size, it all seems to come back from doing the drawings, keeps the mind sharp!
Regards,
Bob @ Kidderville Acres
Kidderville, NH
A Woodworkers mind should be the sharpest tool in the shop!
Bob,
About 10 yrs ago, I was given a K&E drafting machine by an engineer friend. It was taking up space in his office, and since the firm he works for had shifted to cad for their drafting needs, he was gonna throw it out. So now I have no need to use my T-square and triangles that I used since the mechanical drawing class in high school. Ain't progress wonderful/!
As to your "punch drill" as they are called around here, I have a "Yankee" brand model that once belonged to my wife's grandfather, a carpenter by trade. The patent date on the barrel, barely legible, is Jul 20, '01. Nearly all the chrome is gone from the barrel and shaft, making it of minimal value as a collectible, but I wouldn't trade it for one in perfect condition. There is a history in that old tool, of years of hard use in the building trade, back when houses were built, not assembled. I feel a peculiar affection for that old drill, even tho it hopped out of a hole once and plunged right through my thumb, piercing the nail and pinning me to the table on the rebound.
Regards,
Ray
Well when you get that close to a to...sorry too easy ^_^.
-Ryan C.
OK Ray.
Send all those old drawing tools that you no longer need. I will use them for all my designs and develop a closeness to them, much the same as you have for your "punch drill".
Don't send them to Lataxe, he'd probably just turn them into another homemade jig for his bench to aid him in his neanderthal pursuits!
Speaking of homemade jigs, I have used framing squares sandwiched between spacers at opposing algles as clamping jigs for mitred pieces. Works great!
Regards,
Bob @ Kidderville Acres
Kidderville, NH
A Woodworkers mind should be the sharpest tool in the shop!
Bob,
Did I say I didn't "need" those drawing tools? I meant to say I don't use them...still have the slide rule I used in trig class in high school- it's prolly a collectible by now, in 5 more years it'll be a "whatsit?"
Cheers,
Ray
Touche!!!
Frank
Frank,
If you are referring to the drawing, it's what I call a Queene Anne Sideboard. Boy did the period furniture makers in here howl on that one.
So I guess I should call it a Shorlegged Queene Anne Lowboy! :-) :-) :-)
Regards,
Bob @ Kidderville Acres
Kidderville, NH
A Woodworkers mind should be the sharpest tool in the shop!
If it makes you happy that is all that matters.
Regards,
Frank
Just found some more information about this "Automatic Screwdriver" as it's called by the manufacturer, Goodell Brothers. Actually they previously applied a patent for another one in 1890.
Now I'm trying to find out if perhaps Stanley bought them out, but I don't know when Stanley first started selling them as their #41. The one I have is marked "Patented Nov. 17, 1891 Goodell Brothers Springfield, Mass. and is in very good shape, with all the bits.
Just thought I'd pass this along.
Regards,
Bob @ Kidderville Acres
Kidderville, NH
A Woodworkers mind should be the sharpest tool in the shop!
Edited 1/30/2007 6:59 am ET by KiddervilleAcres
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