Looking for ideas for a jig for my drill press for drilling pen and game call blanks. My drill press is a cheap one and doesn't have the side crank for raising and lowering the table so I'm trying to come up with a jig that will compensate for this as well.
Drill press jig
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moke
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What brand is your DP? Is it a Floor model?
triw51
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I would suggest using your lathe to drill blanks with the "Dedicated Pen Blank Drilling Chuck" you can get one through Penn State. I use one and am very happy.
Paul in OKC
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jttheclockman
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Are you saying the drill press has no way to raise or lower a table and it is fixed. Does the motor raise up and down??? I have never seen a drill press that is fixed based. Would love to see a photo. Then maybe we can go from there.
I'm going to assume that you have one like mine where the table uses a clamp to position the height not a crank.
I know what you are talking about I just use the base for when I use long pen bits and then just extend the bit to complete the hole but for when I use my shorter bits I just lift the jig and slide a board underneath.
I know what you are talking about I just use the base for when I use long pen bits and then just extend the bit to complete the hole but for when I use my shorter bits I just lift the jig and slide a board underneath.
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When I first started making pens, I made a simple jig similar to this one. I later got a pen blank vise, but I still use the jig for larger blanks like stoppers and such.
Pen-Blank Drilling Jig
Pen-Blank Drilling Jig
I like that jig. Nice and simple.
Yes, that's the way mine works. It's a cheap Harbor Freight table top model. I'm gonna make a better work surface for it and incorporate my jig into the table.
Neededwill
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I had one from psi but have found myself using a simple vise grip but will make a hinged 2x4 soon.
Darley
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Paul still have yours and still using it, the same one at the back the front one look neat
PenPal
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I use an X-Y axis movement vice fitted with prismatic jaws served me handsomely for twenty years of thousands of blanks. I can drill crazy cut blanks and so forth I switch the drill on and drill sometimes hundreds always using DeWalt drill point drills that give me many hundreds of uses cheap as chips overall.I have drilled at a session many hunderds of 1/2 inch Corian, took me a day to tune the gibbs etc for firmness and squaring up the vice and drill movements.
Peter.
Peter.
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Neededwill
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Peter very interesting looking vise, drill from the side?
PenPal
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No Randal I use that horizontal for reaming blanks once cut a neat but bloody hole in my hand with a long reamer.
Peter.
Fish30114
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JimB
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Paul makes those and sells them. There are a number of people on IAP that bought them from him and are extremely happy with them. You may want to PM him for information.
Note: I do not own one and am not promoting these for him. Just repeating what I have read on here.
Note: I do not own one and am not promoting these for him. Just repeating what I have read on here.
Fish30114
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Thanks for the input Jim, I will PM him right now.
Thanks--Don
Thanks--Don
duncsuss
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Fish30114
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Good intel Duncuss--appreciate it--Don
Paul in OKC
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They are available through Classic Nib.