Drill press mini fence with hold downs

Hi everyone, the fence is plywood so I guess is ok to post it here ;)

Right after building my drill press table I noticed I left the t-tracks too far away from the drill chuck, making it difficult to use the hold downs with small wood pieces, I guess a lot of LJ’s have the same problem but won’t tell :D

I knew I had to do something about it, so I waited to have a good enough sized scrap piece around.

The other day I noticed this scrap plywood laying around and had some free time so after 15 minutes the mini fence inspired by SEE’s drill press table got built.

Because I had larger hold downs and ran out of t-slot bolts large enough I adapted the design a little:

The fence is 14” x 2” x 3/4” plywood, and went with cap square head bolts instead, just made the slots for the heads deeper(3/16”), the square part in the bolt makes it work like the t-slot bolts, not as smooth though.

As you can see in the photos the mini fence allows you to change the hold downs position easily, and now I can fasten small and big pieces without any hassles.

So there you go, quick fix for small error you may get into when building a drill press table as it is hard to tell if everything will work fine until the table is finished.

Cheers!

-- Learning one thing at a time