Project by Airframer | posted 01-21-2013 11:11 AM | 1922 views | 1 time favorited | 2 comments | ![]() |
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I have needed a drill press for a while and my wife finally bought me one this Christmas. I was quickly apparent that the table that came with it was too small and I needed to build a bigger one.
Now, I am an aviation mechanic by trade and an electronics geek in my spare time. Neither of those have anything to do with wood working but I am willing to try and do anything and had some scrap wood on hand so I figured I could build one for next to nothing.
I had only a hack saw and a Dremel to do the long cuts with which meant it was going to take a lot of sanding to get the edges square(ish). The bulk of it is made from a scrap of chip board doubled up with the shape of the stock table cut out of the bottom layer.
I then cut out a pair of channels for the fence to ride along. Framed that in angle aluminum then covered the whole thing in a piece of linoleum I had laying around to give me a tougher top tot he table.
I then cut a square with my Dremels router bit and filled it with a square of oak flush with the top. Then trimed it out with more oak trim.
Being that I had limited wood working tools and even less knowledge of how to actually work with wood I am happy with how it turned out and it functions wonderfully!
-- Eric - "I'm getting proficient with these hand jobbers. - BigRedKnothead"
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Dusty56
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#1 posted 01-21-2013 05:34 PM
Glad it worked out for you : ) One project at a time makes us all better woodworkers.
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#2 posted 03-04-2013 05:22 AM
”....my wife finally bought me one this Christmas.” Let’s see:
1. You put on your best humble face, gave her at least 3 reason why a drill press would make you a better woodworker, husband, human, and in a moment of weakness, she took pity on you and bought you a drill press. Hey, whatever works is my motto.
2. She wants you to build something that you notified her will take a drill press to complete. If so, kudos to you good sir, my compliments! Never let a tool buying opportunity go to waste.
3. You told her it was time to get with the program. Yeah, right. Ain’t gonna happen in a million years, and live to tell about it.
4. You have a loving, caring wife that only what to see you happy.
I’v got a good feeling about this and will go with door number 4.
-- Better woodworking through old hand tools.
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