A wooden frame holding a spring-driven iron spindle with a detachable bit, operated by a rocking crank on the handle. Carpenters, shipwrights, and armorers use hand drills to bore clean holes for pegs, rivets, and dowels; a good drillsmith’s bits are keen and true, and a dull bit fouls the wood or strips the screw-thread. Portable and reliable, such a tool has lasted centuries unchanged.
Hand drill
Spring-driven iron spindle with rocking crank; carpenters bore clean holes for rivets.