Jaze Derr
11-19-2010, 9:55 PM
If you have a drill press, about where on your body do you usually have the workpiece? That sounds weird...
What I mean is: chest height? Knee height? Do you like to have the workpiece precisely 3.4 inches above your navel? etc...
The reason I am asking is because my "benchtop" drill press is pretty darn big, and I have it on a workmate-type folding station for the moment. This places the workpiece at about chin level on me! :eek: This just doesn't seem safe, at all. I know my eyesight isn't the greatest, but I don't really want it that close to my face, thankyouverymuch. So I was wondering about where other people position theirs?
I want to make Danny Proulx's drill press cabinet (http://popularwoodworking.com/article/Drill_Press_Workstation/), but I think it will be much too high for my drill press, and I am a total novice at building a drawer cabinet, or, indeed, anything from plans. I don't know how to modify his plans without messing everything else up :(
I could make it as is and use a step stool, but that doesn't seem safe either.
Any tips on how to shorten a cabinet like that? I've looked and looked for "frameless cabinet design" stuff, but I can't find anything that spells out exactly how to design something like that.
What I mean is: chest height? Knee height? Do you like to have the workpiece precisely 3.4 inches above your navel? etc...
The reason I am asking is because my "benchtop" drill press is pretty darn big, and I have it on a workmate-type folding station for the moment. This places the workpiece at about chin level on me! :eek: This just doesn't seem safe, at all. I know my eyesight isn't the greatest, but I don't really want it that close to my face, thankyouverymuch. So I was wondering about where other people position theirs?
I want to make Danny Proulx's drill press cabinet (http://popularwoodworking.com/article/Drill_Press_Workstation/), but I think it will be much too high for my drill press, and I am a total novice at building a drawer cabinet, or, indeed, anything from plans. I don't know how to modify his plans without messing everything else up :(
I could make it as is and use a step stool, but that doesn't seem safe either.
Any tips on how to shorten a cabinet like that? I've looked and looked for "frameless cabinet design" stuff, but I can't find anything that spells out exactly how to design something like that.