Drill press table

This is a nice video, Steve. Your table design looks pretty straightt-forward and does the job. I agree with you completely about the table that comes with the tool. I just don’t understand why they are so small. For woodworking purposes this is really an annoyance.

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I agree with on the small tables
but the drill´s are acturly developed for
when you drill hole´s in iron
and were you use the metalvice with
the drillpresstable

Dennis

One question for you.

How long have you been using this, and if you’ve used it for a while, have you had any problems with the 1/4” ply pulling up from the base when clamping the fence down? If you haven’t had this long, do you suspect that may become an issue?

-- San Diego, CA

As mentioned, the drill press is designed for machining metals. I don’t know what the ratio is, but I have to imagine that there are a lot more woodworkers than machinists. However, it’s a lot easier for a woodworker to adapt a small metal table for woodworking, as you’ve done, than for a machinist to adapt a large wooden table for machining. In fact, you can’t really adapt a wooden table for machining because of the much tighter tolerances demanded in metal working, wood is not stable enough. So rather than putting a large cast iron table on the drill press, which adds more weight than warranted, they stick with small metal tables and let us make our own or buy one of the aftermarket attachments.

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I built the exact same table for my 12” drill press and used it for 8 years. Only difference I can see is that I made a couple of dado’s and mounted T-Tracks in for the fence bolts to slide in. In fact I just sold the drill press and table after I upgraded to a 17” floor drill press that came with a woodworking table.

-- Dave from "The Sawdust Shed"

Great idea. Good job on the video.

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Thanks Steve! Informitive and entertaining as always.

This just gave me an idea as a DP table is next on the list. I have one of the T slot cutters for my router. My idea is to add a T slot track to the top of the fence for attaching stop blocks, ...

Great job!

cc

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Now I gotta build a new drill press table!!!

You have a lot of good ideas Steve.

-- Bob Kenosha Wi.

cool, i like the way you beveled the edges of the insert to keep it in place, good idea

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nice simple table, i wish i saw this vid before i made my table. mine is made from a plan by shopnotes i think, but it’s pretty elaborate it did come out nice though but it’s so big i don’t even use it. when i make more space in my shop i’ll start to use it.

-- Ike, Big Daddies Woodshop, http://www.icombadaniels@yahoo.com

Thanks for the video Steve. I’m gonna make one of these for my benchtop drill press.

-- Glen

Ditto!

-- Dan ~ Texarkana, Tx.

Great vid! Keep ‘em coming!

-- christopheralan http://www.projectwoodworks.com

Simple and easy to make .. like you say you gotta have one.

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And I’ll be building this one soon too. Great table Steve. As soon as I set up the dado blades to build the boxes, I’ll knock this one off too.
John in Hadley