How to make a Hand Drill
My hand drill is an old drill chuck mounted on a wooden handle. Simple, and surprisingly useful. It started with a broken drill that was too good to throw away, but too worn out to repair (ok, I'm a bowerbird and collect lots of junk that might be useful one day....). It also came about from sore fingers - as I often would hold a drill bit in my hand for some fiddly little job, and drill flutes can be sharp.
I have a lathe, so making the handle was simply a matter of turning a piece of wood and boring out a hole to take the chuck. The end grain of most types of wood is notoriously poor at holding nails and screws etc. so I made the hole slightly oversize, and added some epoxy glue to give the thread something to bite into. (my glue of choice was a putty called "quick metal", but you could make something similar by mixing fine wood dust and any epoxy glue).
I used a piece of Aussie hardwood, and so far have not needed a ferrule to stop the end splitting. If I ever do need one, I intend to wind some copper wire tightly and solder it.
If you don't have a lathe, drill the hole and mount the chuck first, then use a second drill as the lathe to shape the handle. It can take a while, but I have shaped a number of gadgets by doing this and rubbing the wood against the teeth of a saw.
End result: a tool that I use regularly, and would pack into compact - 'just in case' toolkit in preference over a larger electric or egg beater drill.