This might not be the world’s cheapest template, but it’s got to be pretty nearly the cheapest.
For my Stickley Inspired Entertainment Center I needed to drill about a hundred shelf support holes to hold up the three shelves. I bought a yardstick, cut it to length and had my son drill holes every one inch.
We then used it on the drill press as a template to drill the shelf support holes. It worked out great and we have a nice template for next time we need a bunch of evenly spaced holes.
-- Doug - When all you own is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
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scarpenter002
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#1 posted 710 days ago
Nice improvisation.
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stefang
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#2 posted 710 days ago
Good idea.
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David
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#3 posted 710 days ago
And to think I was half considering actually buying one of those templates just to save time, great idea, I will definitely be using this one.
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Bertha
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#4 posted 710 days ago
Mother of invention!
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Mark Shymanski
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#5 posted 700 days ago
This is one of those ‘slap yourself in the head “Why didn’t I think of that?” ideas!!!
Thank you very much for posting this as I am about to drill a whack of holes in the verticals for my son’s closet. You have just saved me hours of figuring out something that probably wouldn’t work better than this.
-- "Checking for square? what madness is this! The cabinet is square because I will it to be so!" Jeremy Greiner LJ Topic#20953 2011 Feb 2
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