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there is one on ebay
http://www.ebay.com/itm/GOODELL-PRATT-La...SwPcVVhL9i
GOODELL-PRATT Large Antique Chest Shoulder Drill Pat Date Aug 13 1855 USA
I do not know if the dating is correct or not buy it is there for someone and I really like the seller whom I bought something from and is a vet in Iowa
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Shipping ($20) is pretty hefty. At over $60, it needs to sparkle and show its worth.
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+1, in mint condition, maybe for a collector at that price. Nothing special about it, $20 at most, personally I'd pass at $10 in a market, but that's just me. I never found them useful and don't even have one.
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I thought the same as both of you and was kind of skeptical about the date of it also.
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Have the Millers Falls No. 120.......paid $20 for it.
Three jaw chuck, is more for "normal" round shanked drill bits.
Heavy beast. haven't gotten around to using it much.
As I have a few others I reach for, first...
As for that big #120.....I couldn't talk the gal down any on the price...
So I paid and left.
Show me a picture, I'll build a project from that
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As cool as breast (or as Arlin called it, shoulder) drills are to look at, I don't find mine much use for woodworking; once you get up to a size where the extra pressure/torque of a breast drill is needed, a brace is a more logical tool.
Now, if you were determined to do your metalwork entirely by hand, a breast drill would make sense.
Just my two cents (worth so little these days that not even I stop to pick up a penny on the ground).
