2020 Product Showcase: Woodpeckers Drill Press Table

So, Matt, there's a lot of weird stuff going on in the world, and one of the byproducts of that is the big show in Atlanta, IWF, was canceled for this year. So we're compensating here in my shop. What's going on here? Well, we got a bunch of products here that we're gonna test out and show how they work. Yeah.

And their features. Yeah, we're gonna talk about them. And then I think what's gonna be fun is- Is the showing them. Showing them how they work. Yeah, we're gonna run the tools and take you through features, benefits.

So we're bringing the show, the woodworking show to you. Ready to get rolling. I'm ready, let's go. Make it happen. Next thing we're looking at is a Drill Press Table from Woodpeckers.

There we go. I'm still not in it, you know. Yeah. One of the things that is a downside about most drill presses, is that they're really good for metalworking, they're not so good for woodworking. So when you go to put larger pieces on here, we're gonna drill a door in just a second.

Getting the door to balance on those small drill press tables can be problematic. The other thing is that drill press manufacturers unlike most other woodworking tools, really haven't considered adding dust collection to the tool. Right. And this is something we're getting a bunch of, I don't know, two for one, six for one, maybe eight for one deals, by having a Woodpeckers table on the drill press here. So we've got a bunch of stuff going on.

Lots of features going on. One, inherently, the table itself has a lot of real estate. Two, I can increase that real estate by adding, not adding, by opening the wings to further expand the amount of surface we have to set stuff on. Here in the center of the table, that's a piece of MDF, that's disposable, that's replaceable. So of course, by drilling holes, I'm gonna drill into that, drill into that, drill into that.

And then eventually when it gets, when it needs to be replaced, it's simple, it's just half-inch MDF, put a new piece in there. Stops on the fence so that we can locate our work. I mean, it's heavy duty, like- And it's, yeah, it's an extruded aluminum fence with measurements on it. So we can use those measurements to locate the stop. And it also, yeah, it's very rigid.

So if you're dealing with bigger stuff where you're concerned about pushing against the fence, and it may be flexing a little bit, that's not gonna happen with what we've got going here. And then at the very end of the fence, we're connected to a shop vacuum which is then feeding through to the center here. And you're gonna see in just a second just how efficient that is at collecting stuff. And then part of our other deal, what's cool, is a drawer under the table. So your commonly used drill press stuff can live right here.

Of course it closes. So it's not gonna get stuff in it that you don't want in it. But it's a really good, easy way to keep stuff handy. How many of us have lost the chuck key for our drill press? This is gonna automatically give you a really good place to keep that.

Yeah. Plus a lot of other things. So I think Matt, you're gonna do the boring part of this. Yeah, I'm ready to go. You're literally gonna do the boring.

Oh, Oh, I got it. I'm sorry that I had to explain that. I'm gonna go. No, I know, I didn't pick it up fast, the first time through. So- You set up here and then I will give you vacuum when you're ready to go.

Yeah. So what we're gonna do is we're gonna be doing, we're gonna be cutting the hinge holes. Yep, Euro hinge holes in a door. 32 millimeter bit. Yup.

So we got bit set up. We've already preset the depth. What we want it to cut through it. Didn't we, actually wait. Yeah, you're good to go.

Are we? All right, yeah. We are good. Just wanted to check. Always very good to double check so we don't punch through a door.

Yeah. Nice thing we have the stop setup. So I'm going to basically, I can slide it in. Make sure we're good. Yep.

Here we go. And we got the other setup so you just come on the other side and repeat. It's nice how well that dust collection works. It pulls it right out of there. You wouldn't think, I mean, it's just that little tiny channel, but it just really clears that path out.

There we go. Yeah, we have about 98% of the shavings off of that large bit ended up in the vacuum instead of piled up on top of the work where we have to and deal with them. Yeah, getting in the way, getting in... Screwing stuff up. And it's actually what we're gonna be doing if you start doing how many doors?

Multiply that times a 20-door kitchen, and there's stuff laying all over the place. Yeah. You know, you gonna be- So the other thing I think happens a lot with a drill press is people aren't just punching holes with them, they're also sanding on them. So let's just walk through a setup that I think is another benefit to this, which would be, if we're using a little drum sander, what one would do is grab a piece of scrap and punch a hole in that scrap that's a little bit bigger than the diameter of your drum sander. We'll set that down and lock the quill in a down position.

Clamp it down. And then we can bring the fence. For now we're not using the fence per se here like we were using it for the door. But we're bringing it to proximity here so that when we are- Another dust collection option. Sanding, that we're close enough, for that dust collection to help us out.

So let's, I'm gonna run that for just a second just as an example of another benefit to this. Let me check our chat. While we're getting that going. So that's, you know, again, like we talked about with drilling the holes, you get in this scenario where we're sanding lots of toys for Christmas presents or something, and it's pretty easy for that dust to accumulate pretty quickly. So it's given us that same benefit we had on the Euro hand.

Right. Yeah, and it goes into anything. Like I've got my shops in my house, so like I wanna make sure that that's not getting into my lungs and my system, so anytime we can get good dust collection, that's essential. Yeah. So I think we did a pretty good job of bringing the show to the people.

Did you enjoy this tonight? I had a blast. It was fun. You know, I learned something. Hopefully they learn something.

Did you have fun? Yeah, it was a lot of fun. And I think it's, one of the things I really like about my job is the opportunity to see tools and then take my excitement about that and telegraphing that out. So hopefully that happened. Yeah.

No, I hear you. I love it. I love this. It's always fun- Well, thanks so much for coming along and yeah, it was a blast.