daniel lane
05-03-2012, 12:20 AM
I keep seeing whimble braces and I keep having the same two thoughts:
Who uses these things?
I wonder if that would help with my arm...
I suppose I'm outing myself a bit here, but...I have nerve damage and have problems with the pure Schwarzian hand tool gig. I try hard (I frequent this neander forum waaaaay more than any other), but sometimes you have to admit when you can't, and well, braces are a problem with me because an injury to my neck has caused an intermittent loss of strength to my arms, sometimes quite significant. I used a 10" MF brace to bore some 3/4" holes recently, and had a heck of a time with it after 1.5 holes...as you can imagine, a loss of arm strength complicates brace usage. (This, btw, is another reason why ratcheting braces rock.)
Anyway, I keep looking at whimble braces and thinking that they might be easier for me since I could use BOTH arms to twist, but I also look at them and think that I have as much of a chance of my boring a straight hole with one of those things as a snowball's chance in........lets say "Ecuador". (As in hot, not that I don't like Ecuador.) Anyone used one? Should I even be thinking about these things?
TIA,
daniel
Who uses these things?
I wonder if that would help with my arm...
I suppose I'm outing myself a bit here, but...I have nerve damage and have problems with the pure Schwarzian hand tool gig. I try hard (I frequent this neander forum waaaaay more than any other), but sometimes you have to admit when you can't, and well, braces are a problem with me because an injury to my neck has caused an intermittent loss of strength to my arms, sometimes quite significant. I used a 10" MF brace to bore some 3/4" holes recently, and had a heck of a time with it after 1.5 holes...as you can imagine, a loss of arm strength complicates brace usage. (This, btw, is another reason why ratcheting braces rock.)
Anyway, I keep looking at whimble braces and thinking that they might be easier for me since I could use BOTH arms to twist, but I also look at them and think that I have as much of a chance of my boring a straight hole with one of those things as a snowball's chance in........lets say "Ecuador". (As in hot, not that I don't like Ecuador.) Anyone used one? Should I even be thinking about these things?
TIA,
daniel