I’m repairing a fairly complicated chair, knocked it apart in order to reglue the joints. I have to replace some of the “sticks” that go between the legs, and these were doweled, not tenoned, to the legs. Problem is, the face of the stick that receives the dowel is a compound angle, and the hole that goes into it is normal to the plane of the end of the stick. What I mean to say is that the face of the end of the stick is off 90 degrees in two directions.
How to drill that hole? I’ve tried a jig, and that works pretty well, but wonder if there is a better way. Needless to say, all of the sticks are different, with “right hand” and “left hand” compound bevels.
My drill press is too short to use it for end drilling. Mistaken purchase.
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If you need more height on you drill press , if you can swivel the head or the table and clamp the rung or workpiece with several clamps off the side of the table with the workpiece going up and down .
hope this makes sense to you
dusty
Thanks, Dusty -- that trick worked pretty well. By eyeballing the stick and the drill bit and the edge of the (now tilted) table, I'm able to drill the end hole with reasonable accuracy. I only have a few to do, but I expect that if I were doing this on a production basis I would make a jig with blocks at the proper angle to attach to the drill press table.The drill press is a bit unsteady with the head 90 degrees out, but I clamp it to the workbench. It's an 8 inch Delta -- pretty reliable and accurate, but with a very short post. Probably more appropriate for metal working than for wood working. We use long bits!
I 've done it that way and many times doing repair work just put the rung in the vise and drill by hand .
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