How to Make a Pump Drill 

I've been dying to find a channel that focuses on nothing but primitive tools, and so far this is the one. I applaud you for keeping the old ways alive.

paleomanjim, Please do more videos, we all love them.

I sure do miss you buddy

Jim come back. We miss you!

First, I very much enjoyed this. Second, it's kinda funny to see someone use a power drill to make a hand drill! Cool video regardless :]

i like how you've been posting many videos lately. Always looking forward to the next.

Thanks for this. i have always enjoyed your vids and learned a lot.

Great demonstration.

please make more video’s i loved them!

Does anyone know why jim stopped making videos. they are the best , every single one of them.

Awesome Pump Drill. Never saw one before but a great tool. Thanks for sharing.

Great videos Jim. Hope to see some new ones.

Great video. Thank you, sir.

Excellent piece, Jim!

Great demonstration

Yes come back please

great video

Hi, And many thanks for the upload, great stuff and skill.

Jim hasn't posted in 8 years? I hope you're ok. Thanks for all the great videos!

I just stumbled upon your channel and am highly impressed with the pump drill. I watch many bushcraft/survival videos in the hope of learning how man discovered tool making, fire, shelters etc. but the problem I find is that all of them rely upon modern tools to replicate ancient facsimiles. For example, and I'm not pointing fingers, you use electric drills and a Leatherman multitool. What would be great is to step back and answer "so how did our ancestors prepare flat sandstone discs without any modern kit?"

How cool is that?!

Is anyone else what happened to this gifted craftsman and artist? I have watched him since the beginning and have been coming back and back hoping for a new video upload.

Cool video! Just subscribed.

paleomanjim, a thought. For extremely deep holes consider an inset drill tip just wider than the drill shaft. The back of the point slightly smaller than the shaft. Use your knife to cut a groove in the drill to inset the cordage into the shaft and secure the point. Theoretically, your drilling depth at that point would be your available drill shaft length. You can also make your point shorter and stronger. Basically, the point would look like the long ones you are making, but without that huge T shape at the back.

Hahaha. Wow, I was just watching your videos!

THIS WOULD ALSO MAKE A GOOD FIRE STARTER WITH A DIFFERENT SPINDLE, INTERESTING VIDEO, THANX

Very cool.

Nice I like that

Wow this actually helped me other vids are such bad quality

very nice work jim you got yourself a new subscriber

As far as drilling a hole in stone is concerned, prehistoric Native Americans probably used hollow reeds for drilling. Experimental archaeology has demonstrated that this method works well. It has also been demonstrated that ground up debitage might have been used in the hole to help in drilling.

Is there anything else you can use for the drill tip besides what you’re using?

Awesome video sir youve got another subscriber keep the good work up thank you for sharing your knowledge!

Thanks for the video. I doubt that I'll need to build such a drill, but I like having a clue about how to do so. It occurs to me that a lighter weight flywheel might increase the efficiency of the bit's cutting. I'm thinking of my experience with using jewelers' saws and drilling with very thin bits. Generally pushing down on the drill is counter-productive as the bits dull quicker and are much more prone to breakage and the same applies to cutting with a wire blade saw extra force just breaks the blades. The hardest thing I had to learn was to let the tool do the work. The drill you're using must exert force downward as part of its design, but it may be that a smaller flywheel will extend point life. IDK,just a random thought that popped up.

Egyptians drilled in sandstone using a stick as a drill, fine sand poured into the resulting hole. Sand hammering the stick, and because it is relatively hard, fairly effectively gnawed at most stones. :)

hello from ohio, my name is patrick .I love work with wood and stone and lately i've been making Maquahuitl , but i have not been able to make those long obsidian blades. I was wondering if i could get a set of those obsidian blades.

I heard the word Pedernales, and also heard a specific type of bird. Are you in Central Texas?

i wonder how the wheel is attached to the spindle. Is there a horizontal pin underneath it? Couldn't figure it out in the vid. You put it on and the it's fixed to the spindle. So, why doesn't the wheel come off?^^

Plz come back we miss you

Why don't you make videos anymore

Great video. could you use a grinding wheel of a bench grinder for your fly wheel. Then use the drill sideways, so that another person could sharpen a knife or abrade a stone blade. just a thought. thanks for sharing.

meu amigo voce deveria ir para o largados e pelados kkkkkk very goooooood

Hay Jim try a finer grain sandstone to try and drill through it should work u use Texas flint to drill my sandstone but its very fine grain and won't go through the course stuff

they would use boiling viniger pour it on the sand stone and it would sorta go to town on however they wanted,some chemical reaction,idk science class was 15 years ago

Hi Jim, I was just thinkin' that another easy and Free Way people can make the weight for the Spindle would be to drill a Hole in the Bottom of a Large Tuna Can or other shallow but wide diameter scrap metal food container and then simply fill it with Pebbles and Sand and Clay or things like Stuff😃

miss your videos still where are you jim!

can i ask you which wood did you use?? thanks

Is there any way for me to get one of your stone blades. Do u sell them ir have a website

Any new videos coming? Looks like over 2 years since the last one. One question - how do you clean up the tiny very sharp flakes from making a point? Looks like it would be a hazard for people and animals to leave them on the ground...

could you use just a nail or something like that for the "drill bit"

I got rocks could you tell me wht thay are

do you have a method for doing this in the field with out a rock as a counter weight?

I wander if the fly wheel could be made from clay instead of cement?

Excellent video! thank you for sharing! could this be used for primitive fire making also? and would a stone grinding wheel work as a flywheel? or do you need the weight of the mortar?

Very cool video, and it earned you another subscriber. I have one question though -- how long did it take in each test sample of wood you used? Mostly for curiosity's sake that I ask, because I am likely going to be replicating the drill. I also thought the choice of flywheel size was a nice touch.

if you are interested look at some old colonial drill bits for wood. there is some similar patterns as to what you are doing.

5:23 looks more like an isosceles to me JK☺ It's all good.

7 years ago? Are you still alive or just give up making videos? Hoping for the latter already found out one great flint knappers I follow on RU-vid passed away.

What happened to you posting videos???

Hi just found your channel. Subscribed. Have you make a video on how to make a Native American Bow?

How does the concrete hang in there?

Jim? Do you still answer your comments? Having a real hard time finding flint or obsidian. Can you help?

Screw power drills! Let's do it the stone age style.

The only things is if you are in the forest ( woods ) where are you going to find a drill string or flint lol

How can I make this in the woods with no electric? You should have showed being made with out electric.

that would make a good fire starter drill just pack the pieces up in your camping pack and use it instead of a bow drill

Was there a primitive grinder ?

Why don't you upload anymore?

1:44 25 what inches, feet, cm, I don’t know what ya mean

Using modern tools to make an ancient tool. I would have been impressed if he used primitive tools.

I should of got sand paper an sand the stick

I cringed at your using the blade of the knife to smooth the spindle by raking across. 😢 The square back edge would have done it just as well. Sharpening trauma i suppose 😅 making a concrete flywheel is clever simple and cheap though 😊

Only you can from the pile of things to do today ..... prehistoric one can start making motors for space launch themselves !? ( Exceptional nation) rather than mindless barbarians we buy ?

He died

thee pumpdrill is to much work...i just stick with my own method friction fire....and its called Fire Plow Hawaiian,Samoan Polynesian Style Baby O0O0OWWWW!!!! Hahaha And It's Easy And It's Fast And It Works....Rubb 2 Sticks Together It Works Hahaha....