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If the 3-inch drill press vise is the small-parts default, the WEN 4-inch model is the one you reach for when your work gets a little bigger. It is the same cast-iron idea with more jaw, holding wider stock securely while keeping your hands clear ...
The stock table on most drill presses is a small cast plate with a hole in the middle and maybe a couple of slots. It works, barely. The moment you drill a row of evenly spaced holes or need a workpiece to stop at the same spot every time, you fee...
An Atlas drill press is often eighty or ninety years into its working life, and a chuck that has not moved in decades has a way of feeling welded on. That is the real challenge with these vintage machines: not the method, which is simple, but the ...
The board looked fine going in. Then you flipped it over and found a ragged crater where the bit punched through, the hole sat a whisker off your line, and the fifth hole in the row did not match the first four. None of that is your drilling. It i...
A drill press vise is only as good as its installation. Set it down, crank the work, and drill, and it feels fine, right up until the bit grabs and the whole vise skids across the table with the work still in it. That moment is both a ruined part ...
Sometimes you do not need a hundred holes or a whole guide to workshop theory. You need one straight hole, right now, and there is no drill press in sight. Maybe you are hanging a gate, mounting a bracket, or fixing something at a friend's place w...
A small precision drill press is not a scaled-down version of a standard benchtop machine. It is a different category of tool built for a different kind of work. The holes are measured in millimeters, not inches. The speeds are measured in thousan...
Cordless drills have gotten so good that many people no longer own a corded one, let alone a stationary drill press. So the question comes up a lot: can you get drill-press accuracy out of the cordless drill you already have, without buying a whol...
The first thing you notice about the Laguna DP:20 is the touchscreen. Not a dial, not a toggle — a blue LCD panel that reads out RPM, motor load percentage, and quill depth in real time. For most of the history of the floor-standing drill press, t...
A floor-model drill press bolted to the concrete is the most stable drilling platform you can build. It is also the most immovable thing in your shop. In a small garage workshop where every square foot pulls double or triple duty, a drill press th...
Ask woodworkers to name the drill press they would buy if they only bought one, and a lot of them land on the Powermatic PM2800. It has a reputation as one of the best benchtop-to-floor drill presses a serious shop can own, thanks to a smart featu...
The Shop Fox W1667 does something most benchtop drill presses cannot: it oscillates. That single feature turns it from a pure drilling machine into a drilling-and-sanding machine, because when you swap out the drill chuck for a sanding drum kit, t...
