Drill Press Table

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Completed my drill press table based off the one in woodworking magazine. It's two layers of MDF laminated with hardboard on top. The edges are birch and the fence and adjustable stopblock are soft maple. It's held on the table with 2 T-bolts. Finish is polyurethane although I haven't applied it to the fence and block yet.

[John Hunter]

Very nice.

[poolhound]

Thats a mighty shiny DP table - good job.

[Whaler]

That's a great looking table. I would be happy to test it for you.

[just started]

When are you going to start marketing it? What's the price?

[ragswl4]

You are not going to actually drill on that are you? Its too nice. Great Job!

[chopnhack]

WOW LOL - Will the glare not bother you when you are working? The design is great and you did a nice job assembling it. May you get good use out of it. What issue of woodworking?

[dbhost]

Either that Steel City DP is radically undersized, or that is one whopper of a DP table, and I don't think the DP is small...

Very nice looking table. Any way you can post some detail pics on the back side of the fence, and how it's attached?

[lrogers]

I want one just like it!

[drillman88]

Great job!

[JR]

Excellent!

[SARGE..g-47]

Very nice Nothing. Similar to my current one on my 15" DP but I spaced the hold down tracks wider. You did the right thing moving them closer to the sacrificial insert. What is the width you used as I am well aware of how large the Steel City 17" press actually is?

I've got to build a new table soon for a Steel City 17" also. Steel City is sending the 17" variable speed they introduced at the International WW Fair in Atlant to me to field test. I will probably give my old fence to my BIL who I am giving my current DP.

Again.. very nice job on the table.

Regards...

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The table is 19 1/2 x 30 1/2". The spacing between the t-tracks is 6" and the insert is 6x8".

I just checked the magazine and it's a special issue of wood magazine, "Woodworking Jigs, Homemade Tools and Shop Organiers" from DEC 2008. I found it in the checkout line at Lowes. The table in the issue was 14 1/2 x 29 1/2 with a smaller insert. It only offered 3 1/2" forward of the opening to support the work piece so I decided to make it much larger. I also made the opening larger to allow me to move the table more if needed (forward or backward). Their plans also have lockable fence extensions that I might add later. I think they could have made their fence assembly easier and it didn't make sense on how they applied the hardboard top so I changed that a bit.

It's not as shiny as it appears, I think it's just the camera flash. It's also usually coverd in dust.

[GPA61]

Very nice.

[dbhost]

So, is that fence an "L" of one piece of wood, with a big rabbet cut into it, or is that two joined pieces? How did you join them?

If I were to guess, I would say two pieces, joined maybe with biscuits or loose tenon?