A Little Experimental Project I'm Beginning:

I've been accustomed to working with a minimal use of power tools for personal projects. Sure, they're easier and I can use them well, but as life's circumstances change, they aren't always affordable, or interesting. One indispensable tool for a broad range of projects is a drill. For a short time, I had access to an old-school non-electric hand drill. I'm sure there's a proper name for them, but I think you get the idea. Here's my next project, then. Something more primitive still, but it needn't be anything more than durable and effective on wood. I think I'll hammer, or more preferably file a nail into the proper shape to serve as a bore. Y'know...because bores are fun...

So here's an example of what I intend to make, a pump drill. Naturally, I'll try to keep mine a bit more refined in form, but we'll see.

The one in this image was used in bushcraft by someone who used it as a fire-starting method, hence the strange wooden tip. I'm a little dubious myself, but these have been widely used as recently as the last century by jewelers. The idea is that you press down on the broad cross-beam to get it spinning, which unravels the string that would be coiled around the central shaft. Then you lift it slightly so the big counterweight near the bottom tip can pull the shaft down by gravity. Here's where I'm uncertain: that free downward motion is supposed to rewind the string so you can push down again, continuing to drill.

I've got the material for this, so it shouldn't be long before I have a prototype to test out. It will allow me to make replacement handles for a duct taped kitchen knife and a folding pocket saw with a cracked plastic handle, among various other things.

If the mechanism really works, I can start thinking about how to get the alignment correct on interchangeable drill bits. For now, small steps.

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Because I tend to go a bit "mad scientist" when I'm in this gear, this song strikes me as a perfect fit. It sounds like something a mad scientist would have for a theme song in the lab/workshop. I mean, I'd watch that cartoon.
Caravan Palace - Je m'amuse

Here's a revived classic sung by one of the greatest, most under-the-radar powerhouse songbirds of this generation. Do I sell her too well?
Lake Street Dive - Rich Girl (Live @Pickathon 2013)

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