Steve Branam
08-08-2012, 6:20 AM
I was at a class with Roy Underhill at Lie-Nielsen this weekend (you can read about it at http://www.closegrain.com/2012/08/taking-roy-underhills-joinery-class.html), and one of the students had this gorgeous toolbox containing among other things a solid brass eggbeater drill, kind of like a large Millers Falls No. 2. You can just see it at the front of the box in the photo below.
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It did have a few iron parts, but the body frame, the crank arm, the main drive gear, and the smaller gears were brass. It was beautiful (I should have gotten a picture).
No one else had seen a brass one of these before; this was the only one the owner had ever seen. Anybody know anything about them? I was thinking it might have been intended for use by a shipboard carpenter, since a lot of nautical fittings are brass to avoid salt corrosion.
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It did have a few iron parts, but the body frame, the crank arm, the main drive gear, and the smaller gears were brass. It was beautiful (I should have gotten a picture).
No one else had seen a brass one of these before; this was the only one the owner had ever seen. Anybody know anything about them? I was thinking it might have been intended for use by a shipboard carpenter, since a lot of nautical fittings are brass to avoid salt corrosion.