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> By far, my favorite brace is the North Bros. Yankee 2101A brace

> The alligator-style chuck jaws close tightly and quickly on square-shanked auger bits or round-shanked twist bits.

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There's a few listed on eBay now:

http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2050601.m5...

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Thanks for trying.

20$ shipping for 30$ tool, while they are mostly two jaw versions. So it's 50$ for something that might be crap and at very least would require me to hunt for vintage set of drill bits. Despite the fact that I already own two modern sets.

Is there any reason why you couldn't retrofit a modern drill chuck onto a hand drill shaft? If all else fails, you could custom make a shaft which the old drill chuck could hold which you could attach the new chuck to.

Not really good reasons. It's just difficult to find them in Finland. All available shafts and chucks are about 30e individually. You can buy decent looking electric drill with that same 60e, so it sounds like ripoff.

Meanwhile any yanks should enjoy their big internal market. :P

At least over here, Irwin still sells brand new auger bits for two-jaw chucks. I inherited some bits and braces and they're completely compatible.

A picture of the collection I have - includes quite a few eggbeater / chest drills, hand braces, and a bunch of other hand woodworking tools.

http://i.imgur.com/rZIj2zl.jpg

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