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Make a Multi Bit Wood Drill with your bare hands!

Drilling wood, specially if you have to do it by hand, must be done in steps: first small, then a bit larger, then to size. Or as many in-between steps as needed. Woodworkers have such collections of drills, but what about when you have to start from scratch? We start with a bit a good quality steel, that is within easy reach for many people: a bicycle spoke! This series instructions show how to make with your bare hands from a bicycle spoke a multi bit wood drill.

You can do it with your bare hands, a hammer, a stone or a file, a knife or scissers as tools. As materials you need a bicycle spoke and a strip of rubber from a car inner tyre. Any hammer is ok. Instead of a sharpening stone, you can grind the spoke on the cement floor or on a stone from the river.
Cut Spokes from a broken bicycle wheel. Cut with a chisel or hammer on a sharp edge of a piece of metal Just as worn-down car tires can be found as scrap in poor areas, also broken bicycle wheel can often be found.
Cut off the hook at the other end of the spoke. Find something that works as an anvil to support the spoke during cutting.
Bend double, try to make a bent like in the photo. A spokeis not easy to bend, use all of your strength, then hold it like the photo. Not string enoung? Then bent over a sharp edge of a table or similar. When folden hold it in the positon as shown
Rubber Strip Binding D091_4_RubberStripBinding250.jpg
Bent Out Ends D091_5_BentOutEnds250.jpg
Twist Ends Twice D091_6_TwistEndsTwice250.jpg
Bent End D091_7_BentEnd250.jpg
Fold End D091_8_FoldEnd250.jpg
Ready For Sharpening D091_9_ReadyForSharpening250.jpg
Hammer Square D091_10_HammerSquare250.jpg
Sqaire End D091_11_SqaireEnd250.jpg
Hammer FoldedEnd D091_12_HammerFoldedEnd250.jpg
Flattend Folded End D091_13-FlattendFoldedEnd250.jpg
Hammer Loop D091_14_HammerLoop250.jpg
Hammer Loop D091_14_HammerLoop250.jpg
Flattend Loop D091_15_FlattendLoop250.jpg
File Pincer Sharp D091_16_FilePincerSharp250.jpg
Sharpend Sqare Pincer D091_17_SharpendSqarePincer250.jpg
D091_18_SharpendLikeDrill250.jpg D091_18_SharpendLikeDrill250.jpg
Sharpend Like Drill D091_19_Sharpend Like Drill250.jpg
Cushion From Rubber Strip D091_20_CushionFromRubberStrip250.jpg
Fixate Rubber Strip D091_21_FixateRubberStrip250.jpg
Pierce Hole D091_22_PierceHole250.jpg
Drill Small Hole D091_23_DrillSmallHole250.jpg
Drill Bigger Hole D091_24_DrillBiggerHole250.jpg