Project by ShannonRogers | posted 04-09-2008 01:11 AM | 6935 views | 9 times favorited | 11 comments | ![]() |
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I am doing some shop transformations now to accomodate my change in doing things and a movement towards more hand tool work. One of the things I needed to do was move my drill press of the counter top and onto it’s own surface. In the process of tearing out a cabinet I will not be using any longer, I noticed the really nice straight grain of the pine that I laminated the countertop out of. It had warped and cupped completely out of shape as it dried over the last few years (one of the reason I was getting rid of the cabinet). After spending some time at the jointer and planer, I have some beautiful 1 inch thick stock to build this drill press cart. I also had some beadply lying around from a wainscotting project in the house. Voila, a frame and panel drill press cart. You can see by the pix that is is definately a hodgepodge of MDF, pine, and white oak edge banding, but it is really nice and keeps all my drill press stuff together in one place. I loaded my compressor into the bottom cabinet along with some misc items on the shelf. The drawer has plenty of space for my drill indexes, jigs, and a pull out bottom with holes drilled for the odd bits. I have some room for expansion in there as well.
I use my shop furniture as a learning experience and enjoyed the mortise and tenon work (by hand) for all the frame and panel assemblies. I also joined the two top rails on the cabinet that attach the top using a hand cut dovetail. These are all things I have never tried before. Sure I could have done it faster with the TS and such, but this was a lot of fun!
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Bradford
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#1 posted 04-09-2008 01:12 AM
Nice work.
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Earle Wright
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#2 posted 04-09-2008 01:22 AM
What’s that little piece of lacewood doing in the drawer? You weren’t planning on sneaking that out in your lunchbox, were you??
-- Earle Wright, Lenoir City, Tennessee
CharlieM1958
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#3 posted 04-09-2008 02:02 AM
Yeah Earle, you can’t trust these lumberjocks.
Nice job of combiiang a place for the drill press with some extra storage !
-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"
Ad Marketing Guy - Bill
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#4 posted 04-09-2008 02:08 AM
What a great use of scrap lumber – nice job!
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Scott Bryan
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#5 posted 04-09-2008 02:28 AM
Hi Shannon,
This is a nice mobile stand for your drill press. It adds some valuable storage to your shop and to make it out of scraps is wonderful.
Thanks for the post.
-- Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful- Joshua Marine
GaryK
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#6 posted 04-09-2008 03:05 AM
That’s a very nice looking stand! Very organized.
-- Gary - Never pass up the opportunity to make a mistake look like you planned it that way - Tyler, TX
Bob A in NJ
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#7 posted 04-09-2008 03:22 AM
I agree with Bill!
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Texasgaloot
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#8 posted 04-09-2008 05:24 PM
That will be great until you can get your post drill! Great job!
-- There's no tool like an old tool...
Douglas Krueger
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#9 posted 04-10-2008 08:27 AM
Shannon,
I follow much the same skills development procedures in that I will use shop furniture as the medium when trying new things. You end up with some lovely shop furniture as a constant reminder of what went right and what went wrong. Nice job of getting your “shyte together”.
-- I can so I wood but why are my learning curves always circles
Beginningwoodworker
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#10 posted 02-05-2010 11:36 PM
Nice job on the drill press cart.
a1Jim
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#11 posted 02-06-2010 05:50 AM
that came out great.
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