Any Shaped Holes with a Regular Drill - How?

[@Nighthawkinlight]

I wouldn't have believed this would work if I hadn't just seen it. Very interesting.

[@699hazard]

Love your channel man.

[@BLenz-114]

I'll second that! Never heard of such a thing before, and wouldn't have imagined it would work if I had! Love this kind of "Tools of the bygone age" stuff always. Thanks.

[@foxon4057]

I agree, like voodoo.

[@NatTayHill]

EXACTLY!!!

[@tonybarracuda3505]

ditto

[@toAdmiller]

The more that I watch older shop techniques, the more I admire the imagination and ingenuity of the people who came up with these approaches...doing so much more with so much less...inspiring...!

[@torbjornahman]

Ha ha! Ridiculous looking tool, but it's super cool! Never heard of this before either. Surprised how it managed to reach into those tight corners! Thanks for sharing this!

[@corinkayaker]

Hey Torbjorn. Will be good to see your take on it!

[@hansborgdesing]

Hållar med.

[@PaskMakes]

You’re right Torbjorn, it really does look ridiculous and it blew me away too when I first saw it. 😊

[@brianmalady1190]

Can only agree

[@JohanLarssonKiruna]

My thoughts as well.

[@TheRecreationalMachinist]

Came from Hackaday. You know when you think that'll never work, and then it does! Great video! Thanks for sharing! 👍 🇬🇧

[@chunkymurps]

What a strange tool. It's just amazing what the human mind is capable of thinking of and then executing that thought to make something like that. And stop asking if we'd like to see you make a video of 'whatever'. Of course we do. You're extremely talented and everything you build/make is fascinating to watch.

[@CryoGenUK]

Seconded.

[@williammoore4101]

Yeah, like chunkymurps said, "Shut up Pask, just make more of your super amazing and talented videos!" :)

[@AndiNewtonian]

IKR? Pask: "Let me know if you'd like to see me make a video of--" Me: "Yes." Pask: "But I didn't say what the video was." Me: "Doesn't matter. The answer is yes."

[@elund408]

this video has about 16000 views, it has 2.5 thousand likes and 172 comments. comments and Likes are what drives getting his videos suggested to non-subscribers which boosts his pay. He asks questions to get comments. If everyone liked and commented he wouldn't have to ask.

[@PaskMakes]

It really is an amazing tool - glad you liked it! As Eric already answered I have to ask those questions to get engagement, it’s just the new rules and the way things work to get views. 😊

[@vinnybonboot]

This is really cool! If someone sold this tool as a drill attachment, along with pre-made templates (or maybe even custom made-to-order templates), it could make this type of woodwork a lot more accessible to people who don’t have access to expensive machinery.

[@MrGaiden100]

Or you could just buy a cheap table top CNC machine if you were going to make a lot.

[@teunlll]

@@MrGaiden100 "to people who don't have access to expensive machinery"

[@karl810]

@@teunlll that's why he said cheap, if you have to buy these templates every time then it is eventually going to be cheaper to just buy the right tool in the first place.

[@teunlll]

@@karl810 eventually. But this tool is probably not for the people that do this on a very regular bases. The templates don't have to be expensive either. Your correct but I think this tool is just for a different audience then the people that would need a table top CNC.

[@urituchmanpigeon]

This is so awesome! Thanks for sharing this amazing technique! I can't wait to try it myself.

[@isaacnguyen6944]

Why do I feel that there will be a pigeon involved ?

[@Victoria-jo3wr]

Ooh yes! I'd love to see that!

[@PaskMakes]

Glad you liked it Uri, it would be fun to see you make one too. 😊

[@graemebrumfitt6668]

Go make one Uri Dude. GB :)

[@defnotsimon1922]

I'm going to say good job already, Uri. אנחנו יודעים שאתה יותר ממספיק לזה.

[@RobertKarlBerta]

I am a 74 year old hobbyist that has a full woodworking shop as well as a metal lathe, milling machine and MIG welders. Have been doing wood and metalsmithing my entire life but this one blows me away. I enjoy seeing very old tools and how they were used but this is a new one to me. Wow what an awesome tool. The person that invented this was a genius. Thanks for the great video!

[@threeriversforge1997]

Very impressive. I would never have thought it'd make such fine details, especially getting down into those thin points. You should definitely have some brass logo plates made up so you can install these awesome little badges on all your projects. Maybe even get some made up in Sterling Silver or the like.

[@PaskMakes]

It really does work very well - I’ll be attempting to make the punch and die to knock out my logos, hopefully soon. 😊

[@PaulaBean]

I think wood inlays would work too, like white ash for a lighter tone, and ebony for black.

[@threeriversforge1997]

@@PaulaBean You're right. It'd be a great tool for insetting bowties across cracks in the top, allowing you to do some really neat shapes. I'm going to try forging one so I can inlay decorative steel rosettes.

[@roncooper6302]

Brilliant, as always. I vaguely remember my apprentice days ( I remember everything vaguely these days), when we had to file a perfect cube after making scrapers from old files to finish the job. All designed to teach us hardening and tempering. I still have the scrapers, the largest of which makes a very good paint stirrer.

[@PaskMakes]

Thanks Ron - not easy filing a perfect square! 😊

[@kani75]

"How is this possible?" By rotating chiselling edges, that scrapes the wood almost randomly inside the mold, until it has scraped of everything that the edge can reach. Simple, but still impressive.

[@akashicvizion]

You said it right at the very tail of the video: "how CNC work was done back in the day"-- The Parser bit was the very first form of a 'router', and using the steel template shows the same technique as using a bearing-guided cutter-- My granddad had an old offset crank brace (the kind that used the tapered, 4-sided shank, circa 1930!) which had 'split-bits' for it; I suppose that would have been used just for this sort of thing!! Keep on keepin' on-- Blessed Be, & Peace!

[@bobd.]

This is pretty slick. I always thought that long ago all inlays like this were done by hand with chisels. I agree with a previous commenter that this would be an interesting tool to bring to market in present day with a set of templates.

[@deanwellerassociates]

Brilliant. Simple and well designed. My Dad (81yrs) will love this.

[@terristroh3965]

“I reckon they came out really well.” Humbler words have never been spoken.

[@russellzauner]

I am building up my arsenal of luthier tools and processes and I'm DEFINITELY giving this a go when I get to making necks and headstocks. Thank you for publishing this for us.

[@ECBSB2013]

I also had this similar though after seeing this.

[@michaelslee4336]

I would be going down the cnc router path for that. Much gentler and more repeatable.

[@NatTayHill]

I am so blown away. I would love a whole series that shows us how stuff was made hundreds of years ago. I have been watching all these KZbinrs that are restoring French Chateaus. When I see all of the furnishings and paneling with inlays and carvings I am so curious to know how they did all of it! It is so interesting. I would LOVE to know how everything was made. This one was so cool!

[@PaskMakes]

Glad you enjoyed it Natalie! I’d love to explore more old interesting tools if anyone wants to point them my way. 😊

[@fitulus]

Chisels were used often

[@sonofdamocles]

you fancy bastard, thank you for the walk through. Really, if not for folks like you this would be lost. Thanks for showing the old ways.

[@stevekreitler9349]

Roy Underhill did an episode of The Woodwright's shop on this very thing some years back, with an original style passer drill, belt and all. I was amazed by it then, and I still am.

[@willmorrison1022]

Thanks for reaffirming my belief that The Woodwright's shop was where I saw this thing before. Never thought of making one, but now, having seen it, I'm not that afraid of it. An interesting thing to consider making, let alone using.

[@PaskMakes]

I hadn’t seen this before but found it when trying to research the parser drill. There really isn’t much out there about it. 😊

[@stevenarnold46]

Do you recall which season/ episode?

[@stevekreitler9349]

@@stevenarnold46 I do not. Sometime within the last ten years, or so.

[@willmorrison1022]

@@stevekreitler9349 Oh, no, it was much longer than that. I haven't been recording for close to that, and I recorded it several years before that. I did a little search, and found this, it's not from the show, but a demonstration from his school. kzbin.info/www/bejne/qnLEkn-Jf5uMoc0

[@briannewton3535]

Effing awesome. Still blows my mind for the ingenuity in these cutters. Nice job, thanks for sharing.

[@aquatrout]

*Pask paints the Mona Lisa* “It’s okay I reckon, I would have liked to do better”

[@lourias]

Yes, I believe that will be the next video!!!!!

[@johngililland6166]

That was really cool! 😃👍

[@stephanieamare]

It's also just a very British thing to downplay and minimize things.

[@Applebutter52]

The person who invented this was a bona fide genius. It's insane how clever it is

[@jamesa7506]

Now THAT is pretty awesome!! In regards to whether your audience would want to watch a video you're thinking of uploading; we've watched you paint your garage, so it would be a safe assumption that we'd watch and enjoy most anything you film!

[@groreistad5234]

Neil could blow his nose or knit an elephant, I don’t care. I’ll watch anything.

[@davidparkins1808]

Wonderful. Thank you. It gives me renewed respect for those who have gone before, and for you also for keeping alive the connection to the past.

[@MakersMuse]

What a neat tool! Doesn't look like it should work at all but it does, would look really interesting in slow mo

[@Dexter_Morgan.]

Oh hey your here cool

[@williampeppers812]

I'm always amazed at the ingenuity of craftsman from by gone years. Thanks for sharing this technique with me as I've never seen it before.

[@dewaard3301]

This video is a great insight into the wealth of forgotten techniques the old craftsmen had at their disposal.

[@olegil2]

Colour me impressed. That was really awesome. And the fact that you get both the insert and the recess from the same template is nothing short of genius

[@glennfelpel9785]

This whole technique is absolutely fascinating! Yes for sure I would like to see and understand how a punch and die would be made to reproduce the brass blanks in that way. Please consider making a video on the punch and die. Thank you

[@KastnerFurniture]

Spent way too long trying to work out what this tool was for when you posted a photo... really satisfying to see what it does!

[@TheCatanzaroShop]

Awesome video. I’ve never considered how those shapes were made on old tools! It’s one of those things I took for granted so thank you for showing the process.

[@PaskMakes]

Glad you enjoyed it! I always wondered too and only just found this out. 😊

[@CarlosFandango73]

This is awsome. Its not often i see something completely new to me, and I have never even heard of this method before.

[@virtusleather]

wow. never would thought that could be done. brilliant.

[@MurcuryEntertainment]

Honestly if you showed me s drawing of it, I'd probably tell you it wouldn't work.

[@PaskMakes]

Glad you enjoyed it! 😊

[@FishersShop]

Very neat! I couldn't picture how it would have worked just by your posts on IG. Makes me wonder how many maker's marks or shaped inlays in the past were specifically chosen so that this method of inlay would be possible.

[@PaskMakes]

That's a good thought Drew, it just may have been the case! Glad you liked it! :)

[@ScottTurnerformeindustrious]

Brilliant. I had no idea these about these tools. Love your work mate!

[@PaskMakes]

Thanks Scott - glad you enjoyed it mate! :)

[@Winznut]

Love your stuff. Just made two canvas bags the other day with your tutorials.

[@ScottTurnerformeindustrious]

@@Winznut Thank you! Handy little bags, I have them everywhere.

[@sticustom]

Very interesting to see tools from the past being remade and used. It was great to watch. Thanks.

[@danhealy7341]

Another great video! I learn something new every time I watch one of your videos.

[@matrix626]

of course we want to see the punch making video! My middle school wood shop teacher had a set of these with about 100 dies. It was really amazing to see them in action. Thank you for the memories!

[@ew7d]

I read about these years ago whilst severely sleep deprived and promptly forgot what they are called. Thank you for sharing this!

[@spudnickuk]

Im a metal worker for over 30 years and this has blown me away, And most of all thank you for showing on how to make it all, As in this day and age we would use a router or CNC machine, and this shows that simplicity from years ago works a treat. Amazing stuff.

[@garyhardman8369]

Brilliant tool Neil. I can see a small version of this being of interest to Luthiers, wishing to inlay fretboards! Thank you for sharing.

[@jjmmcc01]

Don't believe what I'm seeing, this was before power tools !!! What a fantastic demonstration, a very enjoyable video.

[@JaronBaron]

Brilliant! I really love that you bring back these old tool and design concepts! All your work is fantastic but that really unique stuff always makes me look forward to a new Pask video! Cheers!

[@vkwilliams8864]

1. You are awesome! 2. I forgot how much you like to file, glad you found yet another outlet for that.

[@-abigail]

I'd love to see a punching die video! The whole way through I was wondering if the template could be used in some clever way to make the inlays too. Random thought, I wonder if you could use this for embossing on metal if you raised the pattern by a hair less than the depth of the passer bit. It might give an interesting finish - maybe slightly rough, maybe some chaotic swirls. Brass logo plates could look really beautiful!

[@absalomdraconis]

Putting a stubbier version in a hammer drill might also produce a neat effect, as could making a template from plastic (or something else non-conductive), and (standing at some distance, beside a power cut off switch) using an EDM machine or a welding machine with a demolition stick to erode metal.

[@dougg1075]

Whoever figured that out was a genius

[@MrCoolAttitude]

I swear sometimes we get so complacent with modern technologies and techniques that stuff like this just blows my mind. So simple yet so effective.

[@ivanholubec]

Clever improvement old technology with cordless tool

[@leorumley8132]

I've always wondered how they made inlays like that on especially on old tools etc, I'm absolutely amazed yet I've just watched the "impossible ". Thank you for showing us.

[@josephhaddakin7095]

I went down this rabbithole a couple years ago but I didn't think to use an electric drill. Much better results than I had. Maybe I'll go down the hole again copying your setup. Thanks for the videos.

[@dethblud]

I would love to see little brass Pask saw logos in all of your woodworking. A distinctive way to sign your work!

[@andrewvitale7128]

Great job and thanks for showing me something I've never seen before. It all came out beautiful and it's something I can and will use!

[@bradleytuckwell4854]

What an amazing tool the way it gets into the whole template.Always enjoy watching your channel looking forward to seeing what you come up with next

[@metalmogul4691]

Liked this video. Very interesting method to do the inlay. Hoping to see your method to make the inlay with a punch press.

[@nicomonkeyboy]

I'd love a video about the differences between annealing, tempering, hardening etc and about what different properties they each impart one day. I did metalwork and woodwork back in the 70s at school, but all that knowledge has disappeared through lack of use. Still got the working model traction engine we made!

[@absalomdraconis]

Having looked just a smidge, I can say that annealing just reduces internal stresses, happens too cold to cook a TV dinner (more of a cheese sauce temperature), and normally takes at least 8 hours. The others I didn't look at even a smidge. Can't remember what I was looking for, though I remember thinking I could do the heat-treatment bit at least.

[@randallmacdonald4851]

I would not have believed it until I saw it. Wow. Unique way of inlay!

[@OriginalRaveParty]

Such a clever, dedicated craftsman!

[@keys3008]

This is probably one of the coolest things I’ve seen in a long time. Great video.

[@anathaetownsend1894]

This has an advantage over "CNC" or even rotary tools like a Dremel or Foredom. You can get nice crisp corners with out having to do manual work with a chisel. Nicely done.

[@corinkayaker]

Exactly!

[@Crewsy]

The downside is all that laborious work has to be done to make your template so not very practical for a one off item where a rotary tool and chisel would be faster.

[@anathaetownsend1894]

@@Crewsy yup, this is a production tool.

[@absalomdraconis]

@@anathaetownsend1894 : I'd bet that near the end they would have started using a drill press to remove the bulk of the material from the guide. And even before that, they may have used an automated file (the things that move like a topless scroll saw) to speed up the work.

[@macrumpton]

That is absolutely insane how well that works!

[@murlock666]

Thats one of those. "I wonder how they do that?" questions I've had for years. Nice to have an answer finally. Thanks for that! Keep up the good work!

[@Alan_Hans__]

That is brilliant. Thanks for sharing the technique and thanks to the algorithm for thinking I might like it. I did.

[@chrishibberd]

This is bloody brilliant Neil! I really appreciate the fact that you bring these innovations and lost arts to your viewers. You have so many videos that push your boundaries and bring genuinely interesting solutions forward unlike so many other KZbin creators. I can't explain how quickly I lose interest when someone says something like "I've got a free eleventy thousand dollar shaper origin and done blah blah blah" Keep up the awesome approach and thank you for the continued dedication!

[@dragade101]

Brilliant. Inlay work looks a lot more inviting than having to make each channel with a chisel.

[@JoseSilveira-newhandleforYT]

That was impressive! Never heard of that tool before. Ancient toolmakers were indeed clever 😃

[@keving8682]

Very cool historical method! Thanks for sharing and for reminding me how little i know about fashioning anything out of metal! You have an amazing skill set.

[@djangogallardo9073]

9:54 Yes want to see that video, amazing work!

[@videogalore]

That's genuinely brilliant! Thank goodness for KZbin for keeping knowledge like this going!

[@charlvanniekerk8009]

Its a real first for me! What a genius concept. Its such a simple yet super effective way to cut a shape with even sharp corners into a peice of wood! I would personally love to see you make a punch and di to repeatedly cut out your logo. Thank you for sharing!

[@lukafilm]

In a decade of watching every single woodworking video on youtube this is the first time I heard about this tool. Awesome!!!

[@Kaodusanya]

Holy crap that's genius

[@kenglass1980]

That is insane! I love the simplicity. Can't believe we all did t know about that already it should be a tool available at a hardware store!

[@absalomdraconis]

Probably more dangerous than any normal drill bit, so I can see the logic of not having them casually available. May also be quicker to wear out, and certain furniture traditions would very much reject this, for it's focus on purely decorative work.

[@corinkayaker]

@@absalomdraconis actually this was used for very functional work also. mainly making rivet plates.

[@mattkent655]

Seriously blurted out "I'll be damned" when I saw the result. I will absolutely be using this for my own projects. And we absolutely want to see you do the punch cutter

[@keithpovec6462]

I've been a woodworker for about 25 years now. I have never even heard of this. I love channels like yours. I have learned so much from guys like you. And yes, the video on making a punch for your logo would be great.

[@Alan_Garkle]

Thanks for sharing. I’m really impressed with how efficient the process is. It took much less time than I had imagined it would. By changing the depth of the cutouts at the end of the tool you can change the depth of cut. I wonder how deep you could go and still maintain accuracy?

[@paultinwell5557]

More than remarkable. Thank you for passing on this brilliant technique. I’ll be trying it very soon with an aluminium substrate.

[@absalomdraconis]

Might want to figure out an EDM or stick welder (with demolition sticks) version for that.

[@rjwohlman]

What?!? Cool AF!!!!

[@joshuahasson9687]

Thanks for filming this awesome experiment, Pask!

[@jebowlin3879]

I have always wondered about how old school tools were used in some of the more decorative techniques, puts me in mind that the Humans built the pyramids, we are always underestimating the ingenuity of the past

[@judmcfeters9054]

Was thinking something similar. Modern humans are almost always very arrogant thinking that we have a corner on the “best” technology ever developed over millennia of human existence. If we only knew what we used to know when the library of Alexandria, Egypt was destroyed in 682 by the army of Amr ibn al-As. So much knowledge and history was lost forever…

[@corinkayaker]

Absolutely

[@absalomdraconis]

@@judmcfeters9054 : Eh, the library of Alexandria wasn't really lost at any one time, it mostly rotted away from mold & fungus eating the parchment because of the humid sea air. Also, most of the scrolls would have just been ship's logs, since that was included in what was copied by the scribal annex at the docks. The Alexandrian library is more of a symbol than a reality. At any rate, the old Assyrian library at Ninnevah (and at least some documents from other cities that used cuneiform) have actually been rediscovered, and are in the process of being digitized and translated, so there's some stuff too _old_ for Alexandria that we're getting access to.

[@tonymonastiere8510]

So many possibilities...so little time! Nice showing.

[@joepie221]

Extremely clever. I did enjoy it.

[@corinkayaker]

Joe, you have one of my favourite channels that I have learned so much from! Great to see you here!

[@sapelesteve]

Now that was a very unique technique Neil! Thanks for the demonstration! 👍👍😉😉

[@laroseauxboisrosewoodwoodw8585]

Gees and us we think that a CNC is a great invention 😬 All was already done and it’s simple way . I’ve learned so mutch in this vid thank’s and chears 👍🏼🇨🇦

[@billyt53]

Now that IS a great idea! Amazing old technology.

[@lynxg4641]

Neil, you've done amazing projects and work over the years, but for me, this has got to be one of, if not the most interesting things you've done - so very cool to see how things were done in the past or how they could be done today if you don't have funds for a fancy CNC or such. Can't wait to see you add your logo to some of the wooden tools you've made over the years using this technique.

[@PaskMakes]

Thanks very much - glad you enjoyed it!😊

[@bigbadjohn10]

I have seen things like that in junk shop collections of tools and did not know what they were. Great project.

[@Hubilicious90]

I love the fact, that you don’t heavily lean into your more inaccessible tools like your milling machine if you can help it. Many makers are way to comfortable with sentences like: „I used my CNC milling machine for this, but it can easily be done with a jig saw and a bit of sandpaper“, despite never having tried it without their machine.

[@absalomdraconis]

I do hope you're fine with slicing e.g. bananas with CNCs though. You know, just for the joke value.

[@drunkenmunky07]

The old school really is the best ! Really liked this video!

[@-NGC-6302-]

Is this not a commercial product? The thing’s amazing, you can’t get corners like that on a CNC machine as far as I know

[@absalomdraconis]

Well, I bet that a CNC could get similar results in several multiples as much time if you were willing to fit a hand chisel as one of it's tools. However, you'd really just be using a CNC to duplicate manual chisel work.

[@MySickstring]

Wow, that is amazing actually. Thank you for sharing this with us.

[@MarkPhillipsRoShin]

Bloody brilliant. Thank you Master Pask. Seriously though, thanks for showing some of the methods that traditionally would have been passed down by master craftsmen to their apprentices which are sadly being lost to time with the advent of modern machinery. I would love to see how you go about making a set of punch dies as well.

[@Roosters-rants1977]

This is amazing. I had no idea. I can't believe how well it actually works. Thanks for doing and sharing this project

[@АзотМонферанский]

Очень крутой контент. Передаю горячий сибирский привет!

[@PaskMakes]

Спасибо! :)

[@archangel20031]

Rarely am I impressed, and today I am, and I WILL BE ADDING THIS TO MY WOOD SHOP!

[@kellanaldous7092]

More like a PASKer drill, amirite?? :)

[@corinkayaker]

Hahaha for sure!

[@larb6972]

Wow 👏 amazing that you're revisiting an old idea/tool and to me and others I'd imagine,its state of the art /brand new. Great work Thanks 👍

[@ParaBellum2024]

Superb! I've never seen anything like this before. I use a scroll saw to cut brass sheet (with a sacrificial piece of thin plywood underneath), as it's quick and there's no distortion.

[@WadeBarmby]

What a great project. Great to see old technology documented and.put to use.

[@JeffreyTuttle]

Amazing. And thank you for showing how this can be done with basic tools, too!

[@brianbrewster6532]

The stuff I learn on KZbin from clever people like you. Thank you so very much for bringing the old school ways to life. I often wondered how irregular shapes were produced like this. Now I know.