Old Tools!!!! How we used to do it!! this is the Brace and bit

Old tools for carpentry. This is how we used to form a mortice using a Brace and bit, it is really satisfying to re-live these older techniques, it just takes longer and is like a mini workout!!!!!

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[tonyalways]

One of the things I enjoy most about using old school hand tools is the absence of screaming noise. No ear muffs, no dust mask, no trailing cables or flashing lights of dying batteries just the gentle sound of a mallet on a chisel or a handsaw humming through wood. So much more relaxing for everyone around.

[kevindesilva]

As a carpenter of 47 years I use my ratchet brace all the time . When I was an apprentice we were forced to buy the devils tool "The Yankee screwdriver" I just could not get on with them. Luckily for me one of the guys I worked with also did not like them and used his Brace as a screwdriver . I soon had a set of screwdriver bits and never looked back . The brace screwdriver can get in to places battery drills cannot and drive the biggest screws either in or out.

[petemoring]

Those were the days - Woodwork in School in the 60's 🤠

[jeandemange]

The good old belly brace. I remember the amount of energy and core strength needed when drilling out lock mortises. Just before the Makita cordless with the battery in the handle took off. Fast forward 37years😂 Festool, massive progress in tools. Enjoy your video’s plus same age and profession 🙏🏻👍🏻

[Mikey__R]

Sometimes it's nice to cut joinery by hand. I made my mum's kitchen table using only tools I could take down on the train, which was a good set of back saws and my Ashley Iles firmer chisels. It felt good making a table for my mum the way her dad made his.

I met Ray Iles a few years ago, we chatted for well over an hour about tools and toolmaking.

[brianhill]

Well that’s taken me back to 1973 when I started my apprenticeship in the joinery mill, used a brace and bit all the while, including screwdriver bits and drill bits that fitted into the brace. Still got and use all my carpentry tools I bought in 1973 and still going strong. 👏👏

[majl]

Ah miss those days, loved doing locks like that mmmm. I remember when I bought my wheel brace

[cuebj]

Only yesterday evening, I went to inaugural local gathering of old private boarding school boys. At 68, I was oldest by a long way. Mr Wright, head of maintainence and a joiner by trade used to run 7 hours of open woodworkshop a week. In, effect, I had an apprenticeship making loads of furniture, all with handtools plus, for us more advanced, the lathes. One of the other guys did same about 10 years later. He immediately imitated Mr W sharpening chisels on the oilstones. Mr W became a teacher and head of woodwork department to pass on his trade. Got a load of tools for 18th birthday and trawled the used bits and pieces shops in sidestreets of town. 50 years ago. Still have many of the tools and heavy sash cramps. The brace went a long time ago but I still use augur bits in the cordless drills. I still have a set of mortice chisels, so score and drill to same width as chisel instead of that bevel-edged chisel

[Elfin]

Still got my brace and bits in my old school wood tool box

[NAFO_Badger_Brigade]

Aww - lovely trip down memory lane! We ol' git handymen love to reminisce!!!

[barryford]

Still got the tool box I made when starting out, along with my old school tools.

[davetaylor]

I started like that. No such thing as cordless tools back then. For a number of years all the tools I had fitted in one of the old school carpenters bags made of like sacking. It is still in my shed with some of my old tools. Including bit and brace. And hand drill. My first power tools were an electric drill. And a 9 1/4 inch Hitachi circular saw. That was it for a long time. That saw still works. I was ripping hardwood slabs with it only last week. 40 years old. With regular use. Still going. All that has ever been done to it are several sets of brushes. Try that with a modern saw. The original cordless tools were quite frankly rubbish. But you didn't know that then. Nowadays they are pretty good. The generation now don't know how good they have it. Those old tools though taught you how to work with the wood. You felt your way through jobs. I believe that was beneficial. A lot today don't have any understanding of the medium they are working on as a result of skipping the hand tool phase. But time moves on.

[InArcadiaSum]

My clinker-built commercial fishing vessel was in a place without electricity, and anything that had to be done, that could be done without going into a boatyard, required hand tools. Compass and other planes, spokeshaves, drawknives and similar tools were used. What did change for the better was the availability of Sandvik auger bits, and handsaws (Bahco etc.) that were sharp, inexpensive, and could be deemed "disposable" when blunt. One of the downsides, when battery tools became more widely used, was that they aren't anywhere near as controllable, especially when you're bent double, upside down in the bilge of a wooden boat. The "wrong" holes then became a feature for some repairs.

[brianlochrie]

Absolute quality.. ive still got mine. And my yanky driver in my stack system just incase the batteries die... how lazy have we become..?. Cheers Robin.. nostalgic but so true.

[BillyMustang]

You could even use a sweep brace to remove stubborn screws. Still have all my screwdriver bits for it as well!

[themaltsters]

I used to hate doing mortice locks with them

[lambd]

Love the hole in yer trouser knee!
I’ve got a brace n bit and it’s a great bit of kit, if a bit medieval.
Your channel is, if I may say 1st class Robin.
Thanks.

[paulcloona]

I was late in years going to carpentry. But the man i learned off, was fitting internal doors on new build, see him hang 6 doors and locks, using hammer and chisel for hinges. Bit and brase for mortise locks and spindles and key holes. And Yankee drove all screws. Done in quick time, and perfect margins. He had a beautiful leather roll for all his brace bits. Think myself this is how you get the feel and touch in your arm and hand for work. Like Drive a 4 inch nail with power and know how to caress a chisel for butt hinge or a mortice lock face plate. 🤔🇮🇪

[roddymacaulay]

Still keep one in the kit started same year as you used it for all the door locks and handles

[retroclickmedia]

I started in '84, after 2 years we had one battery drill between 6 chippies. Learn the normal way (for the last 2000 years +) and you can not go wrong.