Well, hows it done usually? My current designs are clunky and flat, octagonal handles made on a bandsaw and router. Side note, Im also having trouble making centered holes, I think my drillpress sucks
Well, hows it done usually? ....Side note, Im also having trouble making centered holes, I think my drillpress sucks
Well, hows it done usually? My current designs are clunky and flat, octagonal handles made on a bandsaw and router. Side note, Im also having trouble making centered holes, I think my drillpress sucks
The best technique to get your holes centered varies by the tools you have. I imagine a high quality drill press is the most common. One technique I don't see mentioned, (though hinted at by Matus above) is to drill / bore your center hole and use that as your reference surface. This is fairly standard practice when working with a wood lathe, (which is also a very accurate "drill press"), and lead to very high precision centering. However, with a little jigging, I don't see why you couldn't do something similar on a bandsaw or with a sander. (Which also lend themselves to non-cylindrical handle shapes.)
I use a fairly fancy drill press, but most importantly I think is I drill with a special ground high speed deep drill bit with side cuts. Also I start the holes with mill bit to get the first couple of cm cut straight.
I shape my handles on the belt sander freehand, so taper then.
Hi Robin,
I am always interested in alternative drill bits - would you mind sharing what type you use or maybe a link to a source?
Stefan
All good discussion here. Nice knowing what all of you use. I just went the octagonal/routed corner style because it seemed the easiest to accomplish. No real finesse or measuring needed. I dont see how though you could route after you taper the edges, wouldnt that give you wonky sides? I suppose the boy way to get a clean taper is to measure the width from the bottom and mark a smaller sized top and just flatten according to your pattern.
""Im talking more of a straight taper on all 8 sides, can't be done on a router,""
I d believe that there are some router tables that allows the fence to be angled thereby having a taper if the front end portion of fence is tilted closed to the router bit.. i am looking for one... Or clamp yr own DIY fence...at an angle
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