A 3/16" section steel bar machined to cylinder 2" below pad. The tip is flattened and ground to a v-point. The turned dense hardwood taper, like a Morse-taper, was inserted into a correspondingly tapered hole in whatever drilling device and were held in place by friction.
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Shaker Museum Bit, Nose. https://shakermuseum.us/object/?id=20362. Accessed on November 16, 2024
