Someone help me figure out what I have here please (Planes, and Hand Drills)

[Jeff Yates]

So I picked up the last of my grandfather's tools and the mahogany mantle from my great grandfather's house (built in the twenties) yesterday. Problem is with these hand tools I have no idea. Pop was no serious woodworker, but he had some interesting bits and pieces...

Here are some pics...can someone tell me what these are, if any of them are worth rebuilding, or if they have become decorations. I have no interest in selling them, but if any of them are valuable I would like to know, obviously...although I have doubt any of these are high dollar collectors items.

First up, three planes. All three are stamped with Made in the USA, the small one has an additional stamp of C2. The one on the left has plastic handles, and is labeled Corsaire by Great Neck, the middle one has no labels I can locate.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v366/rowdymon/tools/DSCF0761.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v366/rowdymon/tools/DSCF0762.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v366/rowdymon/tools/DSCF0763.jpg

These next two pics are of some hand drills

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v366/rowdymon/tools/DSCF0765.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v366/rowdymon/tools/DSCF0764.jpg

And Lastly are a series of hand screws (I think that's what they are called)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v366/rowdymon/tools/DSCF0766.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v366/rowdymon/tools/DSCF0767.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v366/rowdymon/tools/DSCF0768.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v366/rowdymon/tools/DSCF0769.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v366/rowdymon/tools/DSCF0770.jpg

Thank you very much

[Bill Houghton]

The planes: Alas, the Great Neck plane is nothing to write home about. Your choice whether to keep it, but it's unlikely ever to be an especially good user. On the middle plane and little block plane on the right: clean off the top of the cutting iron; you may find a maker's stamp there. They're often really hard to see under rust (and how do I know that? because I can't resist rusty tools).

The last group of tools are called "braces," which take "bits," thus the general term "brace and bit." These look like decent users.

[Jeff Yates]

Bill, Thank you for your quick response...

I'll pull out a toothbrush and some WD40 in the next few days and see if I can't find something more about those two planes.

And now that I know what to call them, I can figure out how to use the braces...*laugh*...or at least how to add and/or remove the bits that are in two of them.

Again, thank you sir