--- Richard  Cole  wrote:

  Keep the knife sharp, you're ready to go,
> no adjusting.  The only drawback is you have to have
> a different size auger for each size tenon.  You can
> find Swan augers on EBay almost every week.  The are
> about the cheapest augers.  They are the one that
> has 2 knives and are usually painted green.

I was also going to suggest getting the single size
hollow augers, as the need to readjust the variable
sized ones can take a lot of time and effort.

>  Jim Price is the king of
> hollow augers. He has over 200, wrote the book
> "Patents for Bit Stock Tools and the Machines That
> Made Them".

Jim Price has available some CDs with the patents of
most of the brace-related tools that he has discovered
so far.  It's nice to have all this info on some easy
to use CDs or on your computer hard drive, ready for
quick reference.  
One of the galoots was offering Jim's (lot of Jims
involved here, I think) CDs on Old Tools awhile ago, I
think, and they are also available direct from Jim Price.

=====
Jim Erdman  (in Menomonie, WI)

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