Woodworker's Journal

Benchtop Drill Press Table

very so often it’s fun to spoil yourself with a new tool, and buying that tool usually means making a couple of new jigs and fixtures for it. For example, I came up with this pretty fancy table for my new benchtop drill press. You could opt for a plain-Jane version (top photo). But I decided that I was going to dig out

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