No Electric Power Drill, Indian Carpenter Uses Ancient Drill

Carpenters, before electric power drills, were invented, used to use rotating hand drills that had a handle turning the drill chuck. Other carpenters achieved the same effect, using a bowstring action. And this practice remains popular in some old Indian villages. It is even passed down between generations and generations of carpenters. Recently, Twitter was stirred by one Odisha carpenter who turned a hand drill using a bowstring to drill a hole into a piece of wood.

The old man seemed to be an artisan craftsman as he was working on something that looked like a traditional Indian temple complex’s miniature version.

His traditional drill was like a huge spinning top, which many kids who were born before and in the early 90s might remember playing with. The drill spun clockwise as well as anti-clockwise through a string loop that drew it back and forth.

If you didn’t know that the Odisha man was drilling hole, you would probably think that he was playing some kind of weird violin. The man only needed a few seconds to successfully drill a hole using his bare hands and with no electricity.

@PhilippaKaye, a Twitter user captured the footage and uploaded it online. This is proof suggesting that Indian craftsmen still practiced and preserved ancient carpentry techniques.

The responses were quite positive. Some other Twitter users praised the preservation of the ancient tooling techniques while others cherished the drilling technique of the old carpenter for its nostalgia value.

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