Drill Press Table Build
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- Опубликовано: 9 фев 2025
- I made this drill press table so I can use it for woodworking projects and take it off quickly and use the cast iron table for metal working parts. The T track on the drill press table and fence makes it easy to use a stop block for repeated holes and add hold down clamps to keep my work piece in place. This was a fun easy shop project and it should keep my woodworking parts from getting contaminated with cutting oil and metal pieces!
At 6:52 I say that i am drilling 1/4 20 holes and meant to say I am drilling holes for 1/4 20 bolts! oops!
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I picked up the hold down at my local Woodcraft but if you want to make your own, Check out Christofix's video
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Well done! This is exactly what I was thinking of building!
Awesome! Good luck with the build!
Ahh Man! This is the BEST build for a drill press fence I've seen. This is the one I'm going to copy. Thanks.
Just bought a new drill press and have watched a few videos for the fence I'd like to make in the next few weeks. Yours is, by far, the best. Functional. Attractive. Not too difficult to make. Thanks!
Thanks!
Awesome video! I like the way you attached it to the metal table. I'm gonna use that one when I build a new drill press table.
Great table top for the drill press. Good presentation. Looks fairly easy to build. Well thought out. Thanks. Got to build one now. Thanks again!
Well written, well spoken and well demonstrated. Very much enjoyed!
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Very clever design in how to align the table each time. I’ve been stuck on how to do this and you showcased such an intuitive approach!
This is one of the smartest drill press table designs/builds I’ve ever seen. Nice!!
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Your video came up in a search I did for a drill press table, And I am very glad it did. I am a novice and I felt your explanations were clear and easy to follow, So please accept my thanks for that. Your version of the table encompasses everything I believe I am going to need. It’s not over complicated and yet very functional. Looking forward to checking your library of videos real soon. Thanks again, All the best from North London. UK. ✊
Thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed it
You inspired me. Its all glued up now. Waiting on the t track. It was time to upgrade from the mdf offcuts Ive been using. My wen drill press didnt need a 3rd layer but i did di a small cutout. Thanks.
That awesome! Thanks!
I’ve recently been looking at dozens of different ideas for a drill press table and just seen yours. Without doubt the best I’ve seen (and video) so this is the one for me. Many thanks! (John UK)
Thanks! Good luck with the build
very well presented, so cool calm and collected in your presentation, very well done.
Lots of helpful tips in here. Thank you!
Excellent! Just what I was looking for. I'm making one. I even have the same drill press.
@@mariolombardi3864 good luck with your build!
Love how you compensated for the height adjustment by notching and building it up 3/4". Everyone else's design that was an after thought. I will be utilizing your design for my table top. I am considering dovetailed my sacrificial board as a triangular piece that I can slide out. Yours is the best I've seen after watching several videos
Thanks! Having an insert you can slide in and out would be a good idea.
This is an excellent tutorial. It has just the right amount of detail - not too much and not too little.
And your plan has a couple brilliant ideas I haven't seen before - offsetting the replaceable insert so you can get eight uses out of it, and adding a hole through the table to provide a way to push the insert out.
Thanks for the helping this newbie get it right the first time. 👍😀
Thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed it!
I use a coupler nut with a bolt on other end to drive hanger bolts. It sort of acts like a nut driver. The head of the depth stop bolt is smaller than the coupler nut itself. Used a coupler with different threads on each half.
Outstanding project, and great instruction. Thank you for taking the time and effort to produce the video for the rest of us to learn from! Have a nice afternoon!
Thanks for watching!
First time watching your Channel. Great video! Not only was it well thought-out and well-presented, but it was great to see a fellow left-handed woodworker at work. As a relatively new woodworker, I sometimes struggle figuring out how to use right-handed tools. Now I have someone I can look to for demonstrations!
Nice job. Love the simplistic design. Plan to build something similar, but will probably add a walnut edge to make it pop cuz let face it everyone loves adding walnut. Lol. Also plan to add some kind of holder or dust collection box. Thanks again for some great ideas.
Cant go wrong with walnut trim! Building in dust collection would be a good idea. Thanks for watching
Nice job, nice presentation.
Great design, thanks
Very cool. It looks good and it's easy to tell you spent a lot of time thinking about. Thanks for posting.
Thank you!
This is simple and cool especially the Fence part Thanks for the project.
This is the first table I’ve seen with the cast iron guides on it. I really like that idea.
Nice work. Like your set up.
Thanks!
awesome job mate love your workshop
Thanks!
Clean! Great job!
Very nice, both the build and the video~! I think I've found my next drill press table~! Thanks for sharing.
Thanks!
Table came out great, can't wait to see it in use...
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Excellent video and very helpful indeed. Thanks ☺
Thanks!
@@TwistedWorkshop77 Just to add further to my above comment. One thing that I found superb was just how relaxed, clear and easy to follow your video was. Looking forward to watching some more of your videos and learning a thing or two.
Your projects are getting better and better. That's one awesome drill press table!
Very nice and functional having a fence on a drill table is a real game changer 👍
Thanks! It does make using the drill press a little faster and that's great when you only get a few hours a week in the shop
I think I'm going to redo mine! You inspire me with your idea on how to install it on your drill press. Oh and thank you so much for that shout out man! That was a nice surprise when i heard my name!
No problem! I had just bought the hold down when your video came out. A day earlier and I would have made one.
Christofix - DIY Projects You Make really good & practical things on your channel mate 👍👍👍🍻
Good job. 👍🏻👍🏻
Just ran across your video today. You got a subscriber.
Nice buikd. I have a Porter Cable drill press, so will modify to fit the table similar to your attachment. Thanks, this is as simple and useful as it gets, and is exactly what I want. Will build mine asap...just gotta get the wood :-)
Thanks! Good luck with your build
I think your drill press table is the best I’ve seen yet. I’m going to attempt to replicate later this winter. Great video!!
Thanks! Good luck with the build
Very nice! Thanks!
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Well done.
Thanks!
This is the second time watching this video. The first time was when you posted it and then I saved it in my favorites. This is one of the nicest drill press tables I have seen. I am going to make it with one difference. The top layer of plywood and the second layer or middle piece will not be glued together. Instead, I will connect the two with a piano hinge installed along the front edge of them. Along the two side edges, I will take two 1/8" thick strips of 1" wide by 12" long pieces of steel or aluminum (whichever I have on hand) and make a 5/16" wide by11" oblong hole through the middle of the metal strip. This will be attached to the top layer of plywood at the rear side with a star knob and the other end will be attached to the front side of the second piece of plywood with a 1/4 20 screw and fender washer. The other strip of metal will be attached the same way to the other side of the table. By doing this I will be able the drill angled holes. I am hoping to attach a ruler to the strips of metal for accurate angles. Thanks for the awesome design!
Thanks! I think I can picture what you are going to make. It would be nice to have an easy way to drill holes at an angle. I plan on making some Windsor inspired chairs and angled holes may be a little tricky. Good luck with the build!
@@TwistedWorkshop77 Thank you! I hope you taper the chair making. Ive made more modern or contemporary chairs. A Windsor chair will be a big challenge but Ill support you making one,lol. I dont have a lathe yet so I've stayed away from chairs that have ''fancy'' turned legs,lol. I would love to try at some point in the near future. I watched your tour video and saw that you have the HF lathe. My biggest hold back on getting one is that I want one that has a head that will turn to 90°, plus a 2hp motor to turn large bowls and platters. Can you tell me what size motor yours is? And, have you tried to turning the head to 90°? Does the stand hold up to the weight in front of the lathe? Thank you for any information you can pass onto me. Thanks!!
Very nice and clean...
clean, straightforward, solid. Nice build!
Love it. Very handy to have.
Very nice
Thanks!
awesome video! Thanks for sharing!
Well thought out and executed. It is one of the very best I've seen to date. Cheers
Thanks!
Great project, thanks!
Well thought out project. Explained well showing everything needed without going onto do much detail that it becomes an overly long video. Thanks'
Thank you
Great work. Wish i had a quarter of your talent
Thank you!
Nice
Very cool, I love how much detail you gave. This has now been added to my to-do list.
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Nice job.
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Beautiful, simple, and functional!
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Excellent!
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Very nice job! I’m going to make a copie😺
Thanks! Good luck with the build
Nice job - 👍
good job Dave. it has all the features to obtain the max from it!!!!
Thanks! We will see how much I use the stop block but it was easy enough to add.
Great job. 👍👍👍
Thanks!
Very Nice. I'm impressed. Thank you
Very nice. Will use this as a guide for my tabletop
Thanks! Good luck with your table
Very nice video
Nice job!
Very nice! I plan to make mine very soon.
Nice simple design and execution, I will be building this very soon.
Really love how detailed and thought out the design is. Also the way it attaches to the drill press!
I give you an Awesome Sauce!
Great table thumbs up my friends
Thanks!
Dave, you know that’s my drill press you’ve got there. It’s an excellent little press. Great drill press table!
Thanks! I picked up on facebook market place recently to replace the old benchtop one I had. It didn't look like it was ever used!
Pretty spiffy drill press table. 👍🏻
Thanks!
Nice work. I love the look of stacked plywood when finished up...
Thanks! I originally cut a couple strips of cherry and planned on edge banding it but i thought it looked better with the plywood look so I left the cherry off
Very nice.
Very nice job! Your shop looks great. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks! The shops a work in progress and always changing and it still has the new shop feel to me
You sir did a fantastic job. I will be building this but on a smaller scale for my smaller drill press. What I really want to compliment you on is how much thought you put into this. Everything you said was completely clear and easily followed. The sacrificial insert is brilliant. More than anything I want to thank you for having the class and decency to make a video that didn’t need vulgar language or clowning around. Far too many people think that the are comedians but just make fools of themselves. I give you 10 out of 10 and look forward to seeing more of your excellent work. Great job my friend.
PS. For convenient weights leave your machine where it was and get yourself a supply of weight training plates. They come in different weights and sizes and are not that expensive. Especially the ones you get for free from your friends who gave up trying to look like Arnold Schwarzenegger. 😁
Nice build.
Thanks!
@@TwistedWorkshop77 Any time. Now, how about you come clean my shop like yours?
good video, but check your jointer knives! i learned a long time ago, never edge joint plywood especially the baltic birch stuff. the glue is really tough on the knives
Great stuff! Thanks for the video. I appreciate how much detail you give and reasons for doing things a certain way. It helps out a great deal even beyond this build. Definitely gonna try this out!
Thank you!
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Great work broski
Thanks!
Nice build! I especially like the way you fasten the table to the existing one. Thanks for the video, I will be sure to check out the rest of your channel ✌️
Thanks! Hopefully being able to take it on and off quickly will keep me from damaging it when I drill metal parts. I just watched you latest video. I like how organized your shop is!
Great job! Thanks for sharing!
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nice
Wow! Great job!!
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Excellent, many thanks
Thank you
Great design and execution, I enjoyed the video Dave. Keep it up!
Thank you
I’ve seen a few of these drill press upgrade videos but I really like yours the best. Can you please tell me where you got all the hardware and the superglue and accelerator? I have an idea where you got the t-tracks and such, but couldn’t quite hear where you the the glue. Thank you sir, and keep up the good work.
Great video and excellent project. Now I want to put a table on my drill press!
Thanks! It's a nice addition
Looks good Dave!
Thanks Man. I'm waiting to see a workshop tour of the remodeled shop or a slab table build from you!
Superb addition to the drill press Dave :) Reading through the comments makes me appreciate that here in the Baltic I can only get Baltic Birch Plywood and it is one of the few things that are not expensive :) Christofix's hold down clamps are great also, thank you for that as I missed them for some reason ॐ
Thank you! I love working with baltic birch with the thick ply and no voids but everytime I buy a piece, it's more expensive then the last!
Nice Dave! If I didn't have a decent table on my drill press already.....
Thanks Guy!
Well done. The last 3 I watched were pathetic. I dig the 3 pieces of 3/4 ply for the fence. Sweet! Anything you would change? I'm strongly considering a round insert with the finger holes in the table and not in the insert. Thoughts?
Good job. I’m sure you will get many years of use out it.
Thank you. By the way, those are some nice flies you make
Excellent table...working on mine now....what was the size of the notch you cut out of the middle layer of the base to clear the height adjustment crank?
Fantastic & practical item to the Woodshop Dave, I was wondering why you were using the glue & it made sense when you explained it & Izzy Swan uses it frequently. This is my next project & I agree Christofix has some brilliant ideas.
Cheers buddy 🍻👍👍👍👍
Thanks!. I've seen Izzy Swan use CA glue too. You could definitely build the without it but it just made assembly easier.
CA glue, brads and bolts to hold it down. You must get really physical with your drill press :-)
I dig it.
Maybe just a little overkill. Lol
Cool upgrade Dave. I think Dirk is in the middle of building a similar table for his.
Thanks! Yea, I think this is the year of shop projects
Thanks for this. I always look forward to your how-to's. Keep 'em coming!
Thank you!
I have that same drill press.
Going to build me this table also.
Thanks for sharing.
Thanks! Good luck with the build
Great job - nice design. Using Matchfit Dovetail Clamps with dovetail groves a good alternative and avoids using T-tracks.
Yea! I like that set up you show on your channel. It gives you a lot of options
Nice neat table, I especially like the use of the T-track for the fence, hold down clamps and stop block. It must make setting up for drilling a hole really easy. I've just recently got a bench top pillar drill and have been thinking of how best to make a table for it. The sacrificial insert is a neat idea too!
Thanks for the feedback! The table is working out nicely so far
Great job on this table. I need to make a new one and you have some good ideas that I will use. Thanks.
Thanks! Good luck on yours!