Drill press jig

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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.
 
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I'm partial to one of these :biggrin:
 

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Muzzy17is said:
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.
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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.:smile:
 
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.
 
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As for a jig I first used two pieces of hinged 2x4 with a square hole in the middle to hold the blank. I now have a drill press vise with some custom jaws.
 
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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.
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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.
 
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.
 

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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.
 
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