Is there anywhere, perhaps in the UK, where one can still buy an old-fashioned, hand-cranked hand drill?
I mean the kind that looks, and operates, rather like an old-time egg-beater. These tools could accept the same sort of bits as a modern electric drill, but would be MUCH SAFER for a child. I'm teaching my 9-year-old son simple wood-working, and feel that most modern tools are too hard for a child to control, and would be too dangerous, even the battery-operated drills. Such a hand drill would be good enough to bore through balsa wood, and would at least be a useful way to learn to drill pilot holes and holes for dowels. He could do a lot more joinery without help if he could drill. Any sources for actual HAND-TOOLS anymore? Here in the USA, there are some places that have "pioneer" tools for hand-hewn log cabins, also good sources of planes, but no sources for hand drills.
I mean the kind that looks, and operates, rather like an old-time egg-beater. These tools could accept the same sort of bits as a modern electric drill, but would be MUCH SAFER for a child. I'm teaching my 9-year-old son simple wood-working, and feel that most modern tools are too hard for a child to control, and would be too dangerous, even the battery-operated drills. Such a hand drill would be good enough to bore through balsa wood, and would at least be a useful way to learn to drill pilot holes and holes for dowels. He could do a lot more joinery without help if he could drill. Any sources for actual HAND-TOOLS anymore? Here in the USA, there are some places that have "pioneer" tools for hand-hewn log cabins, also good sources of planes, but no sources for hand drills.
