Shopmade Drillpress

This reminds me of my Grandfather’s work. His shop only had one electric motor and two power tools- a drill press and a table saw.

The drill press had a large, homemade wooden pulley at the top to reduce the speed. His vertical feed method was very similar to yours.

Nice Job!!

Is it miletry project.?
nice and good shop soliution..

-- Suliman , Syria, jablah ,

Thanks Lew. Last time I checked I still had one motor per tool so I guess I’m lucky. Suliman, if it was a military project it would still be in the design and testing phase for a couple more years, then cancelled because it actually worked well and was inexpensive.

-- Dale Manning, Carthage, NY

You used to be able to buy those. I think skill still do one . Nice shopmade tool

-- if the hand is not working it is not a pure hand

You should send that to shop notes or some one to publish for those who don’t have the room for, the money for or enough work to justify buying a drill press. Nice work. l

-- Debt is nothing more than the 21st Century's form of slavery.

COOL.

That is super neat! :)

-- Adventure? Heh! Excitement? Heh! A Woodworker craves not these things!

When I first saw your project, my first instinct was to be a smart a.. and make a comment like “you know they sell drill presses”. But your project brought me back to my early days in woodworking. I built a table saw – not for fun, but out of necessity. I could not afford to buy one, so I built a table, mounted a circular saw upside down and used that for quite awhile. It actually was pretty accurate and served me well for time I had it. Thanks for bringing me down memory lane, I’d forgotten that old tablesaw.

-- Bill - "Suit yourself and let the rest be pleased." http://www.cajunpen.com/

very cool

-- Héctor-----Me rio yo del de bricomania ( es un programa que dan en españa)

Another case of necessity being the mother of invention!

-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"

That’s great. Reminds me of my grandfather’s shop back in the 40’s. He had a lot of tools and jigs that he made.

-- Ron in Osseo, Minnesota

Thanks to everyone that commented. I actually think I get my inclination to build things from my dad, although he was a jack of all trades rather than doing woodworking as a hobby. He built our house himself and was always “improving” something on it.

-- Dale Manning, Carthage, NY

A lot of work there well done I hope you enjoyed it it will never be as firm as a proper drill press but it’s better than hand held.Alistair

-- excuse my typing as I have a form of parkinsons disease

Hey if it worked that’s good. I done that once myself years ago. Thanks Scotsman.

-- Jerry--A man can never have enough tools or clamps

I work for a not-for-profit organization and we don’t always have the money for the proper tools. The other day I was drilling pilot holes in 1/2 inch acrylic sheets. I would love to have had precision drill guide, but no luck. So I made one out of two speed squares which were both broken in a corner. One is my personal and often I like it being broken as it pivots for certain tasks. Occasionally it even fits in a tight spot better than a regular speed square. My one co-worker even thought I altered it on purpose to make it more useful (nope just dropped it a few too many times on that one corner).

-- P.O.C.

Thank you for responding to my post. This is EXACTLY what I am looking for. I really like the design… simple but effective.

great build. It’s a cool thing. Bet is was fun to make.

-- work from your heart and your spirit will live forever

I would love to build something like this…anything you would chage?

-- Semper Fi, Randy Sr.

Randy, the only thing I would change is to make the side rails out of something harder than pine, or maybe thicker pine than the 3/4 pine I used in order to give it a little more stiffness. So far, I haven’t needed it nearly as tall as I made it either but since I made it that way, I guess I’ll leave it.

-- Dale Manning, Carthage, NY