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by dukeofdoom 1483 days ago
I've seen the guy from "my self reliance" (Youtube) use manual hand drill in the building of his remote cabin. No power for electric drill. A battery operated drill would probably fail rather quickly boring through a log with a large drill head. If I remember correctly, proper wood working chisel sets are still very highly priced. And the antique ones can be of higher quality.
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fy20 1483 days ago
"Highly priced" should be taken in context, for a retired person who has no other income it's worth to go to the effort of selling them on eBay or the like. For the type of crowd on HN who probably have relatively well paying jobs, probably not.
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dukeofdoom 1483 days ago
When I made the comment, I was vaguely remembering information I learned from this video.

https://youtu.be/3LB8wtA9LwU?t=265

He prefers 80+ year old American chisels due to quality of steal. "The older the better".

But anyway, just to confirm, I did an ebay search and top of the line Japanese chisel set is listed for $8.5k. I was thinking "highly prized" but wrote "highly priced", but I think it can stand.

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