Comments on: Dovetails with Help from the Drill Press

By: Barquester

Barquester — Sun, 07 Apr 2013 15:17:08 +0000

There is supposed to be 2 nuts on the depth stop to lock together with 2 wrenches that will give a secure stop.

By: alslight

alslight — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 01:19:35 +0000

Is that you singing in the background? …is the sound track available?!

By: James3one

James3one — Sun, 10 Mar 2013 14:17:27 +0000

Cheater…

By: Michael Kratky

Michael Kratky — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 13:32:56 +0000

Chris, nicely done, why didn’t I think of that…

By: sharper802

sharper802 — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 06:46:17 +0000

Looks like a Lie Nielson bench chisel followed by a Blue Spruce fish tail to get in the corners. Hard to tell but he may have used a skew chisel – probably shop-made and ground by Chris – to get into the corners along the side wall followed by the fish tail to get into the corners of the floor.

By: sharper802

sharper802 — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 06:41:26 +0000

I think those are saw kerfs from cutting the sides of the pins not knife marks. They extend below the line as you cut out the pins. The deeper the cut the more the cut extends beyond the line. The deeper the cut the less chopping and paring of the side wall.

By: toms

toms — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 01:20:35 +0000

Lonnie Bird teaches his students to hog out the waste between pins with a router. I see no difference using the drill press. It’s drudgery work and the machine takes the drudgery out of it. Keep on drilling them out, Chris!

By: lclement4

lclement4 — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 02:28:29 +0000

Thanks, ecafsub. I will certainly take your advice. I don’t want to injure myself when I’m just getting started.

By: ecafsub

ecafsub — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 16:28:28 +0000

Speaking from experience, it’s a Very Bad Idea using a forstner with a hand-held drill that is being held only by your hand. That thing will run completely amok, and you have very little control. Forstners are, afaik, for hogging out square (sides in relation to the bottom), flat holes (not that you can’t tilt the bed of the drill press, but that’s a special situation). Free-handing a forstner is stupidly hard–if not impossible–and a recipe for disaster.

Try it out, by all means, and when you’re done seeing your workpiece chewed to bits and are tired of trying to keep that stupid bit steady, you’ll want to invest in an inexpensive drill press.

By: BLZeebub

BLZeebub — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 13:06:32 +0000

I’ve spent more outfitting it with a nice wide Woodpecker’s table and quick release fence and flipstops.