Shopnotes Drill Press Table

that’s one fantastic drill press table it has all the bells and whistles

-- Jim from Heirloom Woodshop Southern Oregon

Looks good. What kind of wood did you use?

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

Nice score from Craigslist, I also score my press from the list as well, a excellent condition Steel City. Great work on your table top, which should make your press that much enjoyable to use. Thanks for posting and enjoy…Blkcherry

Very nice machine and beautiful table.

-- masrol, kuala lumpur, MY.

It’s poplar plywood (the birch at HD wasn’t so hot) then solid poplar for the fence base all drawer components. Maple for the fence faces and trim facia. I’m kind of a newbie and am really liking maple. I wish it was easier to find around here. I don’t have a planer or jointer to do my own yet. So I just use stuff I have around.

sure, rub it in blackcherry…

Nice table. Very functional.

-- If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail!

I don’t have a joiner or planer either, but I have a few hand planes :-)) You can do pretty good with a straight piece of plywood and a table saw for getting a straight edge to start a board.

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

Topamax, I totally agree. I have made due with what I have for quite some time. You can usually get by, but with more tools available it makes things easier. One problem is that flat plywood isn’t always the easiest to come by at the big box store. I didn’t have a wide enough piece for the drawer face. I glued up three pieces of 1.5” poplar, sanded them flat enough and ripped it down. However, it would have been nice to have a planer. Kinda like drilling the 3.5” long vertical holes through the drawer…pretty tough to be accurate with just a cordless drill, not a drill press. I don’t have hand planes to do the job, only one short guy that needs some adjustment. I feel like most wood workers get all the tools, accomplish whatever they want to, then take the challenge to do it all with hand tools.

yup, Craigslist rocks!
i have gotten the following items off CL for my shop and saved tons of cash!

Hegner Scroll Saw Multimax-2 $75
Craftsman 17” Drill Press w/ Laser-Trac $175
Craftsman 10” Cabinet Table Saw $600
New Jet Dust Collector Model DC-1100A $150
New Porter Cable air compressor 60 gallon upright $300
Ridgid 14” Band Saw
Dewalt DW735 13” Planer w/ feed tables & extra set of blades $425
ToolShop Combination Sander 1×42 $25

congrats on your score, that drill press looks awesome!

-- I love the smell of sawdust in the morning!

Very nice table. I like the clamping slots. I’m at present time building a drill press table
for my bench top DP but mine isn’t as feature packed as yours. Very impressive Jason!

-- Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines! Mike D.

now you’re just gloating Northener! i just saw that DW735 was being sold off by HD for $270 just two months ago. i’m about to be sick…

Coastie…check out the Shopnotes table for some ideas…I think it has everything you’d want.

Great-looking table! I’m getting ready to build one myself and had considered this one from Shopnotes, as well. Yours looks so good I might just have to do this one.

-- Glenn, Arkansas

I didn’t see any that were better. The only thing I could recommend is a larger table with a deeper drawer. You know dust collection will be poor but this is as good as it gets.

Beautifully done!

Looked into Craigslist, this morning, and … what showed up?

http://fortcollins.craigslist.org/tls/1447243998.html

Not for me, but … somebody who was more patient than me … is gonna’ have some fun!

-- -- Neil

Love it!! Great job… I have also been looking at the Ridgid brand of floor model drill presses… I already have their jointer, planer, radial arm saw, and shop vac. They seem to put together some very good tools for the serious amateurs…
How did you find working from the plans in the shop notes magazines? I have a lot of them (including the drill press table) but have never tried building from their plans. I usually draw up my own… Might have to give them a try after seeing your work of art…
Thanks for posting…
Wisty

WWWW- I think you can’t go wrong with the Ridgid drill press for $300 or less when the next price range up is $500+ I’m thinking about their planer next. Shopnotes plans are pretty detailed with just a little bit of figuring out from the drawings. I like to get my ideas from other plans and taylor it to my use. Kinda like the larger drawer I made here. Most other things didn’t need changing.

I have the rigid drill press and can recommend it as well.

-- We must guard our enthusiasm as we would our life - James Krenov

Thanks guys,
I have the Ridgid planer and give it my full recommendation… The knives are easy to change out and I have run lots of solid hardwoods through it with little to no bogging down on the motor…
The infeed and outfeed tables required a little fine tuning, but otherwise, it was good to go right from the box…
On a side note, Emerson tool company (former makers of Ridgid brand) provided me excellent customer support when I had minor troubles with my Radial Arm Saw…
All said and done, I have no regrets with any of my Ridgid tools and would buy them again… perfect tools for the small shop owner…
PS: thanks for the info on the drill press… one of my future purchases… (as soon as the boss [wife] allows it…)

any chance of getting some pics of the underside of the drill press table?? thanks

-- I love the smell of sawdust in the morning!

sweet table i made a different one from i think it was shop notes too but my drillpress is to smalll i have abench top press i like this one cuz the extra storage space under it i think i might add it to mine nice work.

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