![]() So it is different from store to store if there is more than one in your area. The sweetest thing is seeing someone in the Restore carrying a tool and then putting it on the shelf and realizing they work there and are putting up newly acquired stock.Įach store has its own person pricing items. It has happened to me on different tools. You may walk in on you lucky day and get a nice set for singing pleasantly. ![]() It is not often that you will find a complete set in the second hand stores. There are also stores like the Habitat For Humanity Restores. Everything at their estate sales are priced with high ebay prices. One of our local estate sale 'professionals' also has their own 'antique' shop. Estate sales differ depending on if the family is running it or a 'professional' has been called in. I don't have the time to get to those.The flea markets, garage sales and such are the best places to find used tools at a reasonable price. ![]() I know some folks go to garage sales, estate sales and auctions. Where do you find them? I don't even know where to look. Last edited by Stew Denton 12-08-2014 at 11:06 PM. These bits that are designed to be used in a drill are primarily for rough work, in my view, like drilling holes in studs for wiring, etc.įor nice looking work, a brace and bit, or a Forstner bit, are hard to beat I think. With a fairly powerful 1/2 inch drill, I think those will also beat a brace and bits. I have three of the common sizes, with the biggest being maybe an inch I think. They make special auger bits for use in drills, mine have three cutting edges. I finally bought a 14" swing brace on Ebay for those bigger sizes, but I am not as young as I used to be, and not nearly as stout as I used to be. Back then it was common for a carpenter to have a standard 3/8" variable speed drill, but a good 1/2" drill was not that common, at least a 1/2 inch variable speed drill that you could handle with one hand. With the bigger sizes of sawed off auger bits, it takes a horse of a drill. With the smaller sizes, an ordinary 3/8ths inch drill will beat a brace in my view. The bigger sizes all still had the fitting for a brace chuck. With the smaller sizes, the old carpenter had both bits with the brace fitting, and ones that he had hacksawed off and then filed down so he could use them in a drill. It reminded me about the old carpenter that had owned them before I did. It had been a while since I had used a brace and bit, but I needed to drill a fairly good sized hole. I used the brace and one of the bits a couple of months ago or so. About 40 years ago I bought my first set of auger bits at an auction, which had belonged to a carpenter who was about 80. If the drill has plenty of power, and you use an auger bit in the drill, I don't think that a brace can beat it.
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