Making a dining room china and display cabinet part 8.

Sometimes you just need a solution rather than a trip to the store. Using a pillar drill is fine for the sides of the 1 1/2" stock but when you need to drill the ends and don't have a drill bit guide and reliable way to clamp it in place, you need to improvise. Here I've used my tenoning jig clamped into place to give me the precision and stability I need.


The blue C-Clamp you see here is to hold the stock in place, the tenoning jig is held in place with a tiny C-Clamp to the pillar drill base. It works perfectly, I can tap the jig with a soft mallet to position the drill bit with the centre punched hole perfectly. You'll see the results soon.