51/707

The brace is a woodworking tool used for boring holes. This brace is made completely of wood, and consists of a round wooden hand grip fixed to a large button at one end and a tapering hole at the other for holding the blade or bit. It was used by an East Hendred carpenter.

1 brace: wood; fair condition

MERL 'Catalogue index' card – 'This all wooden brace was used by an East Hendred carpenter. The stock itself is i.5 inches long and the round wooden hand grip, pivoted to the end of the stock is 2.5 inches in total length, the button itself being 3 inches in diameter. The bit in this example is fixed into a tapering hole at the front of the stock, being kept in place with an iron plate fixed vertically at the centre of this hole. The bit used therefore was slotted at the back and was fixed by pushing it into the hole. // See also 51/325.', No Lavinia Smith No. recorded.

Rippon, Miss Dorothy May Lyddon (Agent)