Drilling And Driving Jigs - Page 3 of 7

Here's a simple method for marking the drill holes for mounting a router to a jig or router-table insert. For each threaded mounting hole in the router base, purchase a…

To bore holes through lamp bases and similar turned items, I made an auxiliary tailstock to hold the work so I could pass a long drill bit through the regular…

Here's an exact and reproducible way to drill rows of evenly spaced holes. The technique uses a drill press and a fixture that combines indexing blocks, a fence and gauge…

Here's a router-table technique for producing clean, precise pocket holes for joining face-frame members. First, construct a wooden cradle fitted with a lever-operated toggle clamp. The cradle angles the workpiece…

For years I used a doweling jig to drill holes for pins in extension tables and leaves. This approach, unfortunately, requires dozens of separate operations, each subject to the error…

Cut mortises and angled holes with these easy-to-make jigs

Adjustable fence for the drill press makes it easier to drill into the end grain of any workpiece.

Frustrated with hollow-chisel and router mortises, I made this drill-press mortising fixture, which works even better than I expected. Its secret is a pair of precision ball-bearing drawer slides. Precision…

Here's a simple method for drilling accurately through irregular workpieces, or for drilling tricky compound angles and having the hole exit where you want it. First clamp a board to…

When I began making production runs requiring 12 evenly spaced holes in 50 blocks, I designed this jig, which incorporates several features, including a cam-activated hold-down and a sliding pin…