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BillL

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Hi,

I'm thinking of buying a small drill press (8 inch) to drill holes in a block of wood to put crocksticks. I can then drill holes for sharpening at 8 degrees, 10 degrees and 12 degrees.

I am not a woodworking person and my knowledge of woodworking is almost nil, will a normal drill press be sufficient or are there any special requirements of the drill press to look for? What does 8 inch mean?

Thanks very much.
 
You could leave the deck level and shim up one side of the block to create the angle and drill. Do you have a drill already? Cause you could do that on a table with a handheld one, and just eyeball the plumb of the drill.
 
I'd make myself a wedge shaped jig out of a block of wood at the angle youre wanting, lay your work onto that block and drill straight down into it.

I think thats the same idea hardheart has. This is just how i'm envisioning it.
 
BillL said:
I am not a woodworking person and my knowledge of woodworking is almost nil, will a normal drill press be sufficient or are there any special requirements of the drill press to look for?
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Yes, a "normal" drill press will do. (I quoted "normal" because it's kind of a vague term. There are lots of different kinds of drill presses.) One thing wood-workers look for in a drill press, quality-wise, is quill run-out. (The quill is the spindle the chuck is mounted on.) On a poorly-made drill press you may get an unacceptable amount of quill run-out, resulting in round holes not being quite so round.

BillL said:
What does 8 inch mean?
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That would be the maximum vertical distance the chuck can be moved when drilling.

Some drill presses allow the table to be tilted horizontally. This would ease your task.

For this task, probably a simple table-top drill press would suffice. No sense spending (possibly) hundreds of dollars on a drill press just to drill six or eight holes in a piece of wood.

Speaking of wood: You're probably going to want to use a hardwood (maple, cherry, oak [not red oak, tho]). Holes in softwood (spruce, pine, fir) will "stretch" under the force over time. Or a nice block of aircraft aluminum.
 
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