The main image (before you play the video) give a lot away. Posted in Tool Hacks Tagged c-clamp, clamp, clamps, drill press, drilling, hold down, vise Post navigation We’ve covered a few ingenious and unconventional drill piece fastening options before, from this wise held down by repurposed bicycle quick-release parts, to an electromagnetic wise that left our readers with mixed opinions. The ten-minute video is a must watch for anyone not up to speed on their drill press piece fastening knowledge, and helps you improve your drilling game without having skin in it. Then, he talks about the hold-down drill press clamps, a favourite of his, especially when it comes to flat sheets of stock like sheet metal or plastic.Īs a bonus for those of us dealing with round stock, he shows a V-block he’s made for drilling into its side, and round stock clamp, made by carefully drilling a pair of wooden hand screw clamps, for when you need to drill into a dowel from its top. For larger pieces, he recommends an underappreciated option - woodworkers’ wooden handscrew clamps, which pair surprisingly well with a drill press. He goes through the disadvantages of the usual C-clamps, and shows options like the regular drill press vice and a heavy-duty version that even provides a workpiece tilting mechanism, and points out small niceties like the V-grooves on the clamps helping work with round stock. ![]() What are the options you have for securing your workpiece to the drill press table? shows us that there’s plenty, and you ought to know about them.
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