They’re designed to be kind of sleek and fashionable – like a trainer. I can spot something that’s out of square from a mile off, and yet I find it almost impossible to sight for square when using a modern cordless drill. and did that ta da ta da ta da thing as it slowly shagged the end of the pozi bit. It moaned, was slow and barely completed the job. I passed over my cordless drill and asked her to try again with that. I got at an odd look but she did it without asking (strange requests are quite normal here). I asked Helen to put a large screw in to some oak with the brace. The motion of drilling is relaxed as you churn through the wood at a consistent pace. It’s old and people powered but it’s also good physics, and physics can win over electricity any day in my book physics and a callus forehead. The design of a brace makes these hard jobs easier on you. Removing the bulk of waste, drilling for chair legs for example, and there can be some really big ones if you’re building your own workbench. There aren’t always a lot of holes in furniture making but there can be some big ones. If you have a good drill then you will find a setting to change the gear and up the umph, but now you have to hold on tight because it wants to throw you around with it or slowly break your wrist.
Have you ever tried using your cordless drill to put a big fat screw in to hardwood without pre-drilling? Unless it’s an unwieldy monster of a tool it will likely whine at you before the half way point and slumber right down as you drain the battery. There aren’t many phrases that conjure up feelings of old fashioned and out of touch quite like ‘the bit and brace’, but if you put this tool up against the best that technology has to offer it can not only match it, but in many cases excels for our particular needs. I absolutely believe that hand tools are the best modern day solution for an individual maker, even a professional, and whilst you probably think I’m crackers to say that, the brace makes an excellent case for going old. But if you’re making furniture traditionally (rather than lots of pocket hole screwing) then I have to say that the ultimate cordless drill remains the brace. The best thing I can say about a cordless drill is it gives you a spare hand to align your parts and hold them securely, and that’s a big plus. Drilling 3/4″ holes for bench dogs drinks through a battery so I had a mains drill for this, it’s not a pleasant job, the bits get hot quickly and in no time at all I’d burnt out three drills. I also needed something with plenty of power. I don’t use screws often in furniture making but when I started building lots of benches I found myself in need of a good cordless drill for all of the vice fitting and particularly around the tool wells of the Little John’s.
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