--- Blake Ashley <Blake.Ashley@t...> wrote:
> To your knowledge, does anyone still make Forstner
> bits with square
> taper shanks?

The latest catalog listing that I have seen for them
is from the 1960s or early 1970s. I think they were
still listed in catalogs catering to high school shops
at that time. I haven't seen any listed lately.  The
last (and only) complete set of thes that I saw I
bought and resold for enough to feel ashamed of myself
until I saw what incomplete sets that weren't new in
the box (even though they may have been 100 years old)
were selling for. 

I found it interesting that the Forstner bits with
square tapered shanks for braces sold for more than
the round shank bits for post drill type chucks.

Jim Erdman  (in Menomonie, WI)

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