Thread: Gimlets!

my father has a habit of sending me some of the neatest tools. the latest installment were these hand drills. They are new but modeled on a very old design. For simple drilling where I don't have to drill a ton of holes I really like these.

Here is a link:Set of Four Gimlets - Duluth Trading Company

I thought some of you may enjoy seeing these:

That's neat! I had no idea those existed.

(When I saw the thread title I thought it was about something we drink every Tuesday at bowling )

How many holes in a ton?

Originally Posted by icedog

How many holes in a ton?

More than 10, but these are neat and handy little tools if you don't drill holes for a living.

Oh I have the same set of gimlets. I keep them in my tool bag. Everytime I see one I am reminded of Humpty Dumpty explaining Jabberwocky to Alice:


"You seem very clever at explaining words, Sir", said Alice. "Would you kindly tell me the meaning of the poem 'Jabberwocky'?"
"Let's hear it", said Humpty Dumpty. "I can explain all the poems that ever were invented--and a good many that haven't been invented just yet."
This sounded very hopeful, so Alice repeated the first verse:

'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

"That's enough to begin with", Humpty Dumpty interrupted: "there are plenty of hard words there. 'Brillig' means four o'clock in the afternoon--the time when you begin broiling things for dinner."
"That'll do very well", said Alice: "and 'slithy'?"
"Well, 'slithy' means 'lithe and slimy'. 'Lithe' is the same as 'active'. You see it's like a portmanteau--there are two meanings packed up into one word."
I see it now", Alice remarked thoughfully: "and what are 'toves'?"
"Well, 'toves' are something like badgers--they're something like lizards--and they're something like corkscrews."
"They must be very curious creatures."
"They are that", said Humpty Dumpty: "also they make their nests under sun-dials--also they live on cheese."
"And what's to 'gyre' and to 'gimble'?"
"To 'gyre' is to go round and round like a gyroscope. To 'gimble' is to make holes like a gimlet."
"And 'the wabe' is the grass plot round a sun-dial, I suppose?" said Alice, surprised at her own ingenuity.
"Of course it is. It's called 'wabe', you know, because it goes a long way before it, and a long way behind it--"
"And a long way beyond it on each side", Alice added.
"Exactly so. Well then, 'mimsy' is 'flimsy and miserable' (there's another portmanteau for you). And a 'borogove' is a thin shabby-looking bird with its feathers sticking out all round--something like a live mop."
"And then 'mome raths'?" said Alice. "If I'm not giving you too much trouble."
"Well a 'rath' is a sort of green pig, but 'mome' I'm not certain about. I think it's sort for 'from home'--meaning that they'd lost their way, you know."
"And what does 'outgrabe' mean?"
"Well, 'outgribing' is something between bellowing an whistling, with a kind of sneeze in the middle: however, you'll hear it done, maybe--down in the wood yonder--and when you've once heard it, you'll be quite content. Who's been repeating all that hard stuff to you?"
"I read it in a book", said Alice.

--Through The Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll

What are you doing up at this time? Are you gimbling?

Ah, that Lewis Carroll sure loved his portmanteaus.

I've seen those; and wondered how well they work. Have used one enough to need sharpening yet?

Here is a link which has some information on the Japanese Kiri.
Takenaka Carpentry Tools Museum - Kiri

I drill my scales with a yotsume temomi-giiri, which is like a small 4-sided tapered reamer
Takenaka Carpentry Tools Museum - Commentary: The different types of kiri

I'm happy to see another gimlet man

Originally Posted by kevint

I've seen those; and wondered how well they work. Have used one enough to need sharpening yet?

Here is a link which has some information on the Japanese Kiri.
Takenaka Carpentry Tools Museum - Kiri

I drill my scales with a yotsume temomi-giiri, which is like a small 4-sided tapered reamer
Takenaka Carpentry Tools Museum - Commentary: The different types of kiri

I'm happy to see another gimlet man

No, I haven't dulled them yet but since I am finding them handier than going to my work truck to get my drill I am certain to dull them soon!

hmph

Gin Gimlet

Also a Gumtree.

hm

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Originally Posted by xman

hmph

Gin Gimlet

Also a Gumtree.

hm

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I was waiting for some drunk to come around and point out the "error" in my title!