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[@SweSuf]

Another benefit compared to battery tools is the fast charge capability: a beer and a sandwich!

[@robertspeer]

The sound of a brace and auger chewing through wood is second only to a sharp plane on a nice piece of straight grained white pine

[@myrawright282]

It was all about the brace, 'bout the brace, 'bout the brace! 🤣❣️☺️

[@WoodByWrightHowTo]

"no Dremel"

[@ToraKwai]

go swivel!

[@alexanderralph2504]

Love my braces. 10.8v gathering dust on the side while my brace is running smoothly with oil all the time! Its my 4 year old daughters favourite tool to use. “The twisty drill” is what she calls it 😁 thanks for the video. Interesting seeing some of the earlier versions 👍

[@leuanye]

Kinda glossed over it, but to clarify for anyone new to braces, the two jaw chuck is for the tapered square auger bits and a three jaw chuck is for round shanked bits.

[@wolverinebear5357]

Thank you

[@S8tan7]

Anyone from the UK, Workshop Heaven stocks two models of new braces that have three jaw chucks AND accept square tapered shanks. I'm planning on getting one as they look very useful, but they arent cheap (especially the Deluxe one)

[@markkoons7488]

Sometimes there is a problem cleaning and re-lubing old chucks. There may be little ball bearings about 3/32' in diameter inside so work over a baking tray, a cookie sheet is ideal so if there is a surprise you'll catch the parts. This is especially likely in the extremely high quality tools. A little smear of grease on internal contact surfaces is an ideal re-lube.

[@markkoons7488]

Glad for the thumbs-up. Another potential surprise is that the springs that open the jaws can go sproing into the sawdust. Ask m how I know.

[@Alexander-dt8sk]

YES! I almost found this out the hard way. fortunately the ball bearings were gummed up in the component pieces.

[@WJCTechyman]

Lee Valley Tools here in Canada sells braces, two and three jawed chucks as well as the "egg-beater" drill. They also sell various taper square bits including a 3/8" socket driver and 1/4" hex for screwdriver bits.

[@orellinvvardengra6775]

My step dad just surprised me with a Stanley brace. I’ve been looking to see if it has all its parts and what not. Still unsure but I’m excited to clean it up and see how well it works. Jaw looks good-ish. Might need a new spring but I’m glad you’re here so I can just keep binging lol!

[@ricos1497]

Love my new three jaw brace, it's such a good tool. Used it today with a standard 3mm drill bit and I was boring a hole that was just smaller than the entire length of the drill bit. I had very little wiggle room on the 8mm thick workpiece that I was drilling through, plus I was drilling at an angle. I did four of them and they all turned out perfectly because you can take your time and follow a line horizontally (I didn't use the ring trick as I've no idea where my wedding ring is, but I find just working out the spot on your stomach or groin to push against works perfectly every time). There's no way I wouldn't have skewed one of the holes with my power drill and ruined a workpiece.

[@icarowaisman130]

Since I am in one of those nexus where there's nothing around me, I'm making my own brace drill bending hot steel and welding a modern chuck on it. great video, thanks!

[@karl_alan]

I just got sent my first brace by my grandmother & had been meaning to look into them more before trying to use it. Thank you.

[@bernardhvanengen5002]

I have a few and the batteries never run out at inconvenient occasions!

[@GNU_Linux_for_good]

But James! I need an adapter, so that I can use ordinary auger bits [no slipping through - round or hex shank] with my brace. Drilling by hand is *so much fun* !

[@MCsCreations]

Awesome video, James! Thanks a lot! 😃 I may try those same day! Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊

[@pedro.federici]

There is a Soviet brace, from 80's with 3 chucks. It's amazing, I can tell you.

[@professor62]

Great video, James! And once again your timing is impeccable, b/c I’ve been thinking a lot about-and buying-braces of late. They’re an awesome and much under-used tool.

[@RaaghavWoodWorks]

Loved the info about the torque, and the intro line was hilarious 🤣🤣🤣

[@HWCism]

As they say, there is always something to learn. Thanks

[@jeffandthings77]

I was drilling a few solid doors to install door knob sets....the power drill died. Putting the hole saw into my brace bit worked surprisingly well, and made me wish I had started with that instead!

[@WoodByWrightHowTo]

It is amazing how well they work

[@robertweldon7909]

In a pinch, a substitute for a brace is a mechanics speed handle, similar in appearance to a brace, and a deep well socket that your tapered bit will fit tightly into. It is not as good as a proper brace, but it does work. I got a set of "very cheap" bits from the cheap tool store, and every bit was a hex shaft and all were different sizes shafts. Using the speed handle method is a pain with these and requires a brace that excepts them. I don't use them much. BAD CHOICE PURCHASE I also have a set of old fashion square tapered bits, over 100 years old now that belonged to my great uncle. They need sharpening badly. How do we do that properly? Great video ;-)

[@Vincent-S]

Man, I love braces. Really love my yankee 2101a one. Heavy, but wonderfully smooth. I still would like a lighter short swing one for light applications and if the chonky one is overkill. Or a wooden one for kicks.

[@richardgroom988]

A very bracing episode I remember as a kid turning good wood into Swiss cheese in my dads shop with his brace an ff Brest drill. I had fun but he was not impressed as he had spent days flattering it

[@walterrider9600]

thank you James

[@standswithfish]

Have to watch this later, as I'm at work. You seem to know quite a BIT about these!

[@carlosimolina]

Great video, as always, James! What you'd prefer? To change a two-jaw chuck for a three-jaw or use an adapter like the one you've shown here in order to use hex bits? Thank you!

[@WoodByWrightHowTo]

My preference would be get get a two jaw chuck, that can work well with hex bits. Most of them made after the 60 work that way.

[@larrykielasa9204]

It came in handy for me when I had to drill a hole around a running device that would stand no vibration

[@RaaghavWoodWorks]

Great job on the info, very easy to understand 😊😊👍👍

[@danielpaquette1597]

I love your content, keep up the good work! I am trying to use my brace more, but some of my bits have shafts that are 5/16 and 3/8. Have you found Auger adapters for 5/16 and/or 3/8 shafts? I am currently mostly using the Taytools 1/4" adapter. Thanks!

[@WoodByWrightHowTo]

Two tools also makes hex adapters for those larger sizes.

[@teddybuff3186]

I got this brace from a antique store and it looks like it doesnt have any chucks. It is just empty right there. I would like any comments or help about this because im not very smart in it.

[@WoodByWrightHowTo]

It could be designed for the tapered square bits. If the hole in the end is square that's probably what it's for.

[@stevenboyd593]

Brace yourself his eccentricity can extend to twist drills

[@Cornelius135]

If you have a two-jaw brace that doesn’t grab modern hex bits, is there a solution?

[@WoodByWrightHowTo]

Here you go. kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z3rJmImYabqgh7ssi=TOVz_JnjSKAYxC7q

[@luismigueldominguez5487]

Excelent video,wich is the name,of the part for holding normal drill bits?

[@WoodByWrightHowTo]

are you talking about the chuck?

[@patrickc.7235]

Thanks for the video :) Question: The first time i used mine the bit snapped. I didn’t know what i was doing but i didn’t think my technique was that bad. Is it me? is it the bit? It was a pretty cheap bit for electric drills. i was drilling a hole in a pine bed slat. Thanks again!

[@WoodByWrightHowTo]

If it was a small twist bet it was probably the technique. They are very brittle and any horizontal force will snap them I normally do not go any smaller then 1/4" with these. For smaller I generally use the egg beater drill. If it was bigger then 1/4" then it was probably a bad bit. Usually these work better with augers then twist bits.

[@scott8351]

I would also check for the spring in the chuck, I saw some at a 2nd hand store but no spring so the chuck doesnt line up. They seemed ok otherwise but not sure where to get a spring for something that old.

[@potflower4136]

I recently picked up a four-jaw brace. I'm very happy with it, it seems to be an uncommon design though

[@WoodByWrightHowTo]

Yes. Those went out of style in the late 40s. The two jaw was just a little bit more flexible.

[@nielsberkers]

@@WoodByWrightHowTo why is it always me....... I also picked up my first brace and it turned out to be a four jaw brace. I can't seem to fix a tapered drill in there they keep wobbling. it does hold round drills but starts to slip on those if I ask to much from the drill. Am I doing something wrong with the tapered auger drills or did somebody mess up my brace jaws? doens't seem messed with...

[@Todero_Ligh]

Saludos hermano, tengo un berbequi antiguo que hay que restaurar y arreglarlo para que quede como nuevo y como veo que los coleccionas, te lo vendo y barato. Tu me dices Saludos desde Venezuela

[@goldeneggduck]

Please tell us more about bit adaptors

[@WoodByWrightHowTo]

I have a few videos on that. kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z3rJmImYabqgh7s and then this one is just on one of the adaptors kzbin.info/www/bejne/mJukoKB-f8Rro6c

[@lorettacrabtree7816]

Great information 👍

[@EricMeyerMaker]

More torque and more fun than a powered drill

[@theWendigo1928]

I don't know if anyone or other wood worker came across this type of brace. My first antique bit brace has a small switch that you can flick side to side to lock it in place for the clicking to happen and etc etc. Though the jaw is very, very different, it does hold square bits like the antique auger drill bits, but not all of the sizes just about 4 or so can fit.(and if anyone wondering "why I choose it". Well the only reason why I got that one was mostly because it was the cleanest and at the time I didn't have anything for restoring/cleaning tools. I'm 19 so I'm a youngster that still learning 😂 😂 😂)). I can't describe exactly how the jaw works, but picture this in your head. the jaws kinda like expand, instead of seprating like in this video and as you unscrew the head part. The jaws closes and as you screw the head back down the jaws expands open. Sorry if i didn't explain so good, but if anyone interested in this or you James I can put a link here for people to read about it. Cause this bit brace is alittle more unique as far as from other braces I seen both modern ones and antique ones.

[@WoodByWrightHowTo]

Ya KZbin will block any links unfortunately. But I think I know of the one you are talking about.

[@theWendigo1928]

@@WoodByWrightHowTo NOOOO LINKS😱😱😱 Well that rather disappointing giving today generations technology 😂. Though if you ever like me to send you a link of some kind to the source of the bit brace let me know and I'll be happy to try and do it. 😀😀😀

[@WoodByWrightHowTo]

Feel free to send me an email. I'd love to take a look.

[@shenyathewelder9695]

I call my hand brace a “cordless drill”, specifically because I find it funny.

[@broccoliagain3012]

If you have a newish brace with plastic handles, is there a way to replace them with wooden ones? I haven’t come up with a good idea short of splitting the wood handle and glueing it back around the metal arm?

[@WoodByWrightHowTo]

ya that is about the only way. I generally say to put two blocks of wood together then drill a hole through them and that makes a clean glue joint when they go back together.

[@herrbela84]

I just got a middle sized one.

[@מעייןהמלבלבתחייםםםם]

I bought Robert Larson 10" brace it have got 3 jaws. It wasn't cheap but it have got incredible grip and it's ratcheting mechanism is very good, i bought it because i wanted to use the wood drill bits that i have got, and i also bought 2 auger bits which are high quality and they are making the boring not boring 😜. Because i am new to it my first brace was a cheap one with 4 jaws that was half the price and the weight of the Robert Larson but it couldn't hold a 8mm drill bit it was poor manufacturing!!!! So if you want to bore with a modern brace don't use the 4 jaws because you will be madly bore!!!

[@JezaMorabe]

What is the history of that?? What 90's??

[@sorchard6]

Nothing to do with the subject, but what's the curved sole plane on the titles, some sort of cooper's or wheelwright's tool?

[@WoodByWrightHowTo]

are you talking about the compas plane. here kzbin.info/www/bejne/bnO3dYyZd6t_rac

[@sorchard6]

@@WoodByWrightHowTo That's the one. I want one now. I hate you. 😜

[@wifurzenes680]

Where did you get that convertor to hex adapter?

[@WoodByWrightHowTo]

here you go. lddy.no/oxab

[@lad208]

Hi i have a question, i have bit brace the stanley one have slight wiggle on the rachet part? (On it's head?)is that normal?

[@WoodByWrightHowTo]

i am not sure what you mean, but some of them are a bit more loose then others. as long as you can still bore a clean hole that si what matters.

[@ElectricGears]

There is something weird going on with your intro sequence. If you go frame by frame, it looks like there are 15 frames of a previous intro at the beginning and end so it stays the same length as the music clip.

[@WoodByWrightHowTo]

You are the first person to notice that. Or at least to tell me. It's been like that for almost 2 years now.

[@dillonqaphsiel7977]

I got one for $3

[@GraemePayne1967Marine]

How bore'ing ... I have one brace (Sears, bought new 40+ years ago) and an old Miller's Falls breast drill I bought from someone about 4-5 years ago. I want to increase my collection of drills and bits for them so I will have to spend some quality time with your sellers list. (Also have a 60+ year old Sprunger radial arm drill press with a 1/2" chuck; but that's not a "hand" tool.)

[@jessric5947]

The only new ones i see, unfortunately, are the 4 jaw chucks on new braces, and unfortunately they only accept square bits

[@WoodByWrightHowTo]

Ya those are often junk.

[@jessric5947]

@@WoodByWrightHowTo i guess some, especially the really bad plastic handles. Fortunately the one i bought was up to par.

[@wolverinebear5357]

I need some good tools an nowhere to buy. I hate Ebay. What u got for sale, lol

[@WoodByWrightHowTo]

look at www.HandToolfinder.com that is everyplace I know of to find hand tools, both on line and around the world.

[@ryanstieglitz8077]

Comment down below. I braced myself for it, but in the end it wasn't as boring as I thought it would be.

[@theonecalledstein]

I'm just here for the puns.

[@WoodByWrightHowTo]

I think I am too.

[@larrykielasa9204]

*

[@criswilson1140]

I think braces reproduce by mitosis. Somehow I have 5 of them, but I only remember buying 1 of them.

[@WoodByWrightHowTo]

They do tend to reproduce.

[@TheHibener]

USA only, Bad luck

[@WoodByWrightHowTo]

What is USA only? Most of the sellers on handtoolfinder.com will ship international.

[@looking_33]

Cordless drill? Why would I want to use this tool?

[@altheteacher]

How on earth do you get a whole brace into your butt??!!!

[@WoodByWrightHowTo]

very carfuly!

[@kennethnielsen3864]

First.

[@WoodByWrightHowTo]

Woot Woot. Congrats on first!

[@kennethnielsen3864]

@@WoodByWrightHowTo Thank you sir, just keep them coming. Take care of your self.

[@taguanskorch178]

I just found some EARLY STANLEY NO. C575 ADJUSTABLE BRACE DRILL AUGER DEPTH GAUGE BIT. Wondering how to use them?

[@WoodByWrightHowTo]

Here you go. kzbin.info/www/bejne/iIWkiouhd5uol80si=KB1C3jjfoWrKBV3u

[@JezaMorabe]

What is the history of that?? What 90's??