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So, to drill holes without a drill press, you need a planer, a chop saw, a scroll saw and a drill press
lol
I love the suggestion of getting a drill press to make straight holes for a tool that supposed to help you make straight holes. If you don't have one, borrow one, if I was able to borrow one, I wouldn't be making these stupid guides!!! 🤣🤣
You could use a router to make a straight hole.
@@Kuleaze These "stupid" guides will get you a lot closer to vertical than your eye in situations that you can't use a drill press, like on a floor or a wall for instance. The drill press is the best and fastest way to get the straight hole in the jig. There are other ways if you lack access to a drill press, see czcams.com/video/5SZA03DVITA/video.html and czcams.com/video/lUIaj59mTNI/video.html or tip #5 of czcams.com/video/SegMV0z3kJ8/video.html for example, but note they require a lot more setup when you lack a drill press. The kid is trying to save you some time and effort.
There is one tip I found pretty necessary to getting good holes with this type jigs that last more than a couple uses: You need to clamp or otherwise fix the position of the jig. Holding it with one hand while you drill with the other won't work.
Hi Eric, change the arch for a V and you could use it on round stock too, should be faster to cut out also
You the man! Have you ever had an accident with so many tools?
Hi Eric, first time viewer. I liked your idea of making drilling jigs well done. I would like to talk to you about your thicknesser. Make yourself a mobile trolley table to mount it on to save your back and your knees, trust me you will appreciate this when your in your 40's, 50's and beyond.
Also with your technique when using the thicknesser, spread your passes over the entire width of the blade to maintain accuracy and uniform sharpness of your blades. Always running your passes through the middle wears that part of the blades prematurely and may result in your changing out the blades when you still have life left in them on the outer thirds of the blades. Good to see you are wearing hearing protection, but be aware that the surrounding pads do go "off" after about two or three years depending upon use and sun exposure. What can happen is that you think you are protecting your hearing when you aren't because the pads are no longer snugly fitting.
Saved my life mate thank you🫡
Excellent video Eric! Can I make a suggestion that would add more functionality to these guides?
Instead of cutting half circles in the guides, cut a deep V into them. Now you have a self-centering guide that you can use for drilling holes through the exact center of round stock. PVC, copper tubing... etc. And you can still use them for drilling straight holes through lumber.
Keep the videos coming, sir. I enjoy them all and love the way you create solutions to common problems.
good thinking. ... I'll be using both ideas
with the V you could do 45 degree on edge
Some fifty years or so ago a boat builder from Innisfail, Queensland, gave me a small piece of hard wood called "Black Panda" trough which I press drilled guide holes for my manual hand drills, and I am still using the same guides for my electric drills. That very hard wood was used bottom shoes on keel boats.
To everyone laughing about this. I have a perfect application for this. I have a drill press but the area I need a straight hole drilled in is too small and tight to get to with a drill press and it's attached to a larger thing. Thanks for the idea Eric.
step 1: strip wood 2x4 of all paint for the new wood look
step 2 cut wood into 3 1/2 " square blocks
step 3 cut our 1" half circles on one edge
step 4 drill out a single hole for different drill bits and label accordingly
Result - You have a guide for your basic bits and your hand drill.
Nice Work Eric - good idea and simple construction for good result.
Great idea Eric!
Interesting idea :) I made a jig to drill straight holes on my channel too, but a different aproach. Cool to see other peoples solutions to the same problem
Bonjour, Génial, merci pour l'information
To make the arch faster you could have drilled a hole into the wood before you cut it and cut that hole in two :p
Personally I would lubricate the holes with a wax to ensure the drill bit doesn't bite into the sides so much. It would prevent the hole from becoming warped and last longer..
Good work young buck. I’d make two suggestions. 1) after drilling out a perfectly perpendicular hole in the jig, plug it a guide bushing/sleeve 2) make it slightly larger to create some clamp zones
thanks for the great idea Eric. Great video. :¬)
Brilliant idea!
great idea , going to make myself some .. like it
Good idea and excellent job cut editing the beginning. Lots of good shots and sequences.
Great job. Good begining .
This is great I'm going to have to try this since i don't have the space for a drill press. I think if/when i try this out i'm going to take a longer pieces of 2x4 and use a hole saw bit in the center and then cut the piece in half to achieve the crescent shape. Thanks for the idea!
Great idea!
Great job lad!
Keep up your good work. Nice to see you use your head as well as your hands. Thanks for the vedio.
Good stuff
Hi Eric, just came across this video tutorial of yours, i think this is cool and i like it, i would suggest maybe this is also more useful when you want to drill a hole into the pipes (metal or plastic) because you cut an arc and i would suggest that make the arc (the cut that you did from the base of your jig) in different sizes too. Hope this makes sense to you....keep up the good work !!!
thanks great tip.
oh!yung man a master job,,,,English peoples are very famous in the world about a good ideas,,,,,,many thanks for sharing
Great work!
only suggestions (i didn't read very far into comments but)
1: Use your table saw to make a 90 degree "V" groove perpendicular to wide face of a 2x4", or hardwood (I prefer oak, maple, or mahogany(oily) board (instead of the flat wide surface on the end of the board to drill a straight hole w/o a drill press) ie: "V" groove instead of the end flat end board placed perpendicular to be drilled piece . A 23.5 deg-45 degrees (depending on size of bit, flip board to fence, cut again, always using a miter fence @90/0 deg). Also, drill hole first, then groove to 30-60 degrees TO drilled hole.
2: draw a straight line from one diagonal corner of the top of the end grain side of the arch, to the other. Use the same technique opposite to "create a "X" pattern, as you can see, where the "x" crosses (when lined up correctly, sometimes not perfect, but) it is centered 98% of the time.
3: Use a "SPRING LOADED CENTER PUNCH, awl, etc to make sure your drill bit doesn't "walk" while drilling the hole. For repeatability, use hardwood scrap material or layer hardwood(top), softwood hardwood, softwood and then hardwood (for base). similar to plywood. I Like ""Tite-bond 1/2/3, using TB-3 for most jigs, Afterwards with refinement, you are able to achieve repeatability, without all of the setup of concurrent pieces.
4: PLEASE USE OVER-LAY MUSIC OR MUTE, while machines are in use during tutorial. please GOD. my worshop surround sound was killing me without my cans on!!
*Otherwise excellent tips and tutorial!*
You are a fine and resourceful, budding wood master in the making!!!! please continue, our craft is seldom recognized, yet highly sought after!
few take the time, yet the time that it takes, yields it's own rewards.
Hey Eric, I just found your videos and I have to say you remind me of when I was your age. When I was 14 I was wiring houses, welding and using a cutting torch, running a chainsaw and many other things. I grew up in a time when they still taught trades in school. Now days the school (more likely insurance and risk management) are too scared to let young folks do anything that will give them some mechanical skills. Good for you! It sure is nice to see someone your age interested in not just video games and what not. Hey I do have a suggestion and this may be the old man sore back talking but you need to get a portable folding work table to set the planer on. That killed my back just watching that. Perhaps you could build an out feed table that would match the height of your table saw, that way when the boards come out of the planer it would land nicely on the saw table. Just a thougt. Great job on this and other projects.
+Deric Kettel Definitely mount that thicknesser on a trolley table, save your knees and your back.
Im 15 and I like woodworking/metalworking,but I also like video games,science and electronics,whats bad with that??
Teo Pit There's nothing wrong with video games, in fact I play them too, what I was saying it its nice to see someone not only interested in video games but likes to do other stuff as well. Its all balance. :)
Deric Kettel that's right,I agree with you
Good video !!😀 and what about last Tuesday ??
How do you make the guides if you don't have the press drill? lol
Where did you buy your scroll saw from??
Thanks for the tip. I'll make one from a 4x4" block to drill dog holes in my work bench.
hello Sean Penn junior, nice work
Hi Eric. Are you drilling wood with a steel bit?
nifty and useful... until you oval out your guide holes by running your drill bit through them on an angle too many times. Consider pressing some brass tubing through your guide holes, and they'll last a lot longer.
Why didn't I think of this? You just saved me some money.
i love your video, one thing that is an ideal one is why not install a metal ring pipe inside the wood & glue it, i made a portable drill press using a electric hand drill replica of a drill press, it comes out almost the same performance, with precise measurement. with a wooden wheel bearing with a handle.
i have a drill press but heres my 2 cents on the idea. -i would definitely make em shorter. the thickness seems ok & make em out of hard wood like walnut. that way the bits wont eat away at the soft wood after a few uses.
crazy
If you don't have any metal bushings in your jigs, the hole eventually elongates and the bit won't be strait anymore. Good idea though.
Bushings made out of tungsten carbide... Brass and bronze would wear out just as fast because drill bit sides also cut. HSS vs tungsten carbide... a bunch of ruined drill bits.
A pocket hole jig lasts for years as does the bits that are used with it.
Its made of HSS or at least proper tool steel.. Last for years for someone who doesn't care about precision.
Oh, I forgot. You guys use chinese drillbits. Good enough for wood.
Amirhousein Hazratifar u w
What he said.
At the end, a better example is to use the guides where you can't bring a drill press, like on a wall or up a ladder.
i can tell that you are a big fan of the ryobi toools
You should make a shoe rack next Tuesday!
R.I.P. headphone users 0:40
did the red paint on the wood damage the planer blades?
มันคือต. Samuel Scott ค้า
Paint will not cause damage to blades,I have planed wood from many trees that contained lead bullets with some damage,but blades were still useable.Get them sharpened at a machine shop every couple years,they are made of high RPM steel.
One V block guide and interchangeable bushings.
i have the same scroll saw
OK idea, but I would have any clue without serious thinking if 9/32 or 1/8 or 27/64 is bigger. I am primitive, and can only relate to difference between 5, 5.5 and 4.5. Etc. I have 10 fingers, not 20/2.
so here's a thought.. ok your "drill guides" are good as a basic concept... not all you're drill bits are going to be jobber length.. 6", etc.. but why not have the guides be a bit more versatile. instead if a arc bridge, why not a "V" (90 degree notch) where you can also center the drill on round stock also, (OF ALMOST ANY REASONABLE DIAMETER) or even the corner of a piece of wood !
Is it necessary to have the arch? Can you drill a hole all the way through square blocks made by 2x4's? If you need the arch, can you drill a bigger hole on one side that doesn't without going all the way through?
Of course if you cut two 45's to make a 90, you could also use the jig on round stock like dowels and the like - It would also be easier to cut than an arch.
Might be best if you removed the paint before running it through the planner for the sake of the blades.
Nice video, and very nice production.
Excellent comment. I'm embarrassed that I didn't think of this.
My comment above was directed to Mirza Zivcic. It wasn't placed properly.
My comment was never meant to insult the maker of the video or his skills. I was merely suggesting one more useful way of using his jig. I am sorry if my comment has offended anybody.
At 3:46 you assume the pieces are 90 degrees coming out of your planer. If they are, it's only luck. Just because two of the four sides are exactly parallel, does not mean it's square with the other two parallel sides. Did you check?
If you can avoid it, try not to plane painted wood. It's very hard on the blades. Great video!
Yes we all have a 12" levelling machine at home.
Gotta love a noisy neighbor.
This would be better if you could find some metal tubing with a ID of your drill bit.
I like what you've done here. You just need to add a base so i can be clamped down.
ho ho --the drill press is used again ----lucky rich guy ----the poor will soldier on
Cool, in Russia this thing named as "conductor"!
why its better than some iron angle 90 degree one ?
using a hole saw before cutting the blocks would have made you life a lot easier... drill holes and then cut the blocks in half... just an observation or cutting 90 degree V's instead of half circles, in that way you could have used the blocks on cylinders as well as drilling into corners of blocks...
exactly my thoughts while watching that part. Then I started to think about being in the shop and how every single worker will do things differently, or even with redundancy or excess. Just because that's ''how they do it''. (when you're NOT on the clock of course).
Far too unstable to use without being able to clamp it down. You can't have that much shaking and expect precise results. And instead of just a drilled hole, you could use different sized, thin pipe, the same diameter as your bits and set those in your block, so as not to wear out the wood when you drill, protecting the jig.
After u drill the hole, maybe u could put metal tubing in it..
I guess we'll need some sort of drill guide...shoulda came up with that first...:)
This is really a great idea, and your video is very well done and makes it look easy enough. If I may say so, you are one smart kid!
So, my question. My grandfather always maintained that there was no such thing as a stupid question - if you don't know the answer to something, neither you nor the question is ever stupid. So here goes: what is the point of cutting the semi-circles out of the bottoms of the blocks? I get what one commenter meant when he suggested making Vs in the blocks to cradle dowels and tubes, etc. to drill holes through their centers , but how does a semi-circle cut out of the block help in drilling a straight line? Wouldn't you have better luck in keeping the bit straight if it's cushioned all the way down a solid block?
Thanks very much.
When are you lot going to go metric?
We do in Canada. Even though we are officially metric, in real world application we still use imperial fairly regularly. Colloquially, most of us express things like height and weight in feet/inches and pounds. Automotive measurements are largely standard.
The US doesn't use Imperial. You actually use the system pre-Imperial!
+Eric Lindberg If you started using metric, you'd see you have a use for metric. It's a heck of a lot easier than that bizarre system you use in the u.s.
we tried back in the mid-seventies but grandmothers were afraid they could not use their baking recipes any more because they used cups etc instead of metric. While it may be easier to use metric, that would be like tilting at windmills here in the US.
BigDuke6ixx
Great idea, clamp them down for better results. Only issue is that these will have a limited life.
Starts 2:24
the most american thing I've seen today
nice videos
ROOKIE. but that's ok. you will learn grasshopper
How old are u ?
5:20 you cant use this you are shaking so mutch and miss the target hole like 5mm :D and as u gona use it it gona wear out and have wobling :D
das ist so ungenau wie euer zoll Maß
Hilarious
To save everyone's time... The drilling part starts after half of the video...
sorry i like your stuff but this one i don't think so.
If I had a machine shop with thousands of dollars worth of power equipment I would not be watching this video!!! Whats next? How make your old car faster. Buy a 1968 Lamborghini Miura P400 S. Reality check dude!!
You're just wasting wood. Do you realize that eventually those holes will get enlarged each time you use them?! Get yourself a portable drill guide and call it a day.
Whole thing is a fail LOL. But no doubt you'll improve it
Tioga Fretworks
Yep, tilt the drill few times and those holes won't be 90 degree anymore :D
you dont know what your r doing no offence