[Jewelry making - Article 00845] - Re: [Orchid] Advice from an ageing English goldsmith

[detyr]

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Hi

    There is at least one hand tool that I would like to aquire. I want
    a pump drill, I think that they are also called archimedes drills. I
    don't want the kind that uses a spring. I want the kind that has the
    small flywheel and is pumped with a handle attached by string to the
    spindle. (Sorta looks like a large spinning top.) I've googled but
    could only find some plans. (I don't have the link with me now. I
    think it was on one of those old ways of living web sites, Native
    Ways, maybe.) I've seen pictures of this item in some jewelry
    technique books that were written by english authors. I saw one at a
    flint knapping show, it had a flint arrow head attached as a drill
    bit. I just don't like power drills. And beyond the fact that some
    hand tools are easier to use than power tools I also feel somehow
    connected to the past when using a tool or method that may have been
    used for thousands of years. However, no feeling would stop me from
    using a power saw to cut up stone. 

Ardetta Bronson
detyr AT att.net

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