Finally! I found the guy that does the voice for all those videos. Here I thought it was a computer generated voice.

this helps SO much. i feel like so many woodworking tutorials ask you to acquire a ton of expensive and large pieces of equipment, both of which i can’t house in my small 2 bed apartment. but this is so reasonable and works so well.

I use a small plastic mirror, with a clearance hole drilled through the centre. Place mirror on workpiece. Drill workpiece through the hole! If drill is not perpendicular then drill and its reflection will look bent. Just line up the drill with its own reflection and then start drilling.

@santiagocortez9554

3 жыл бұрын

Can you make a video of this? It'll be much easier seen than read bro, and it sounds genius tbh

@santiagocortez9554

3 жыл бұрын

Can you make a video of this? It'll be much easier seen than read bro, and it sounds genius tbh

@GeezerTuber

2 жыл бұрын

Popular Mechanics suggests using an old CD as a mirror.

@crowhoptech

2 жыл бұрын

@@GeezerTuber Oh, now that, that's clever

@catvoice5336

9 ай бұрын

@@santiagocortez9554You can use a compact disk

You're making a tool to make your holes perfect without making the tool perfect... MADNESS!

I use a drill guide to make a hole in a short piece of 2x2 scrap and use that as my portable jig. The drill guide also lets you drill at angles to make angle drilling jigs that can be clamped to your work for cutting pocket holes and the like.

This guy is brilliant...Cheap simple solution for big problem.

This is the video I was looking for a long time!!!

Works a charm, much easier, cheaper and more effective than anything else I've tried.

Absolutely brilliant!! I've never been able to drill a straight through hole no matter how hard I try! Problem solved!!!! Love all of your great tips!!!

WELL --THANKYOU --ITS very useful --well done !

Saves me money on not haven't to buy a radial drill press on large items that wont fit on my current table top drill press! THANK YOU!

Your intro scared the crap out of me. I'm watching this in my truck with my powerful subwoofer. lol 🤣🤣🤣

Brother, that is brilliant! Thank you so much for sharing.

@cosador

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for watching and subscribing!

Finaly someone advice how to make jig for straight drilling without drill press

@bingefox4056

4 жыл бұрын

Aren't the postings of how to do it with a mechanism that you have to buy and attach it to the drill aggravating

@bp8067

3 жыл бұрын

I'm gonna try and save a step using peg board

@TrevorJones1

3 жыл бұрын

@@bp8067 im gonna try and save all that cutting and 3d print several of these at various hole sizes. imagine a 6x1x1 inch block with holes every inch of various standard drill sizes

That actually makes a lot of sense so I might give that a try in the future. I just put on handles on my wall cabinets that required making two holes per door; they came out great but certain holes were a little slanted so I had to widen them a little so the screws straighten out. This will save me a lot of time once the counter tops come in and I can finally put in the base cabinets doors.

Excellent idea

Hey thanks for sharing, it would be helpful if you share how do you make deeper straight 1” holes?

Thanks for this. As a new woodworker making this is a good exercise too.

This will sound a bit exotic but this tip is for those viewers that have a palm router with plunge base. With a plunge type spiral bit, you can effectively drill holes perpendicular on any size work piece so long as you can reach it. Pretty sure there are cordless routers if you don’t want to be tethered to a power cord and would be very portable . Just a thought.

@narisarasgroove2625

5 жыл бұрын

I have a small router and your solution is so obvious and perfect for my current project that I am kicking myself for not thinking of it myself. Thanks.

@martinmorgan9

Жыл бұрын

Great tip. I need to be able to accurately drill the edges of boards for dowels for a custom-built storage unit soI'm going to use your tip to drill the perpendicular holes through the pkywood pieces shown in the video to make a jig for situations when a router is too cumbersome to use.

@aries6776

Жыл бұрын

This sort of stuff is gold. I came for the video but I always read through the comments and left with a great tip like this. I have a router which will now be put to a new great use! Thanks!

Very clever. 👍👍

Nice tool. Probably the cheapest one I found around. Easy to make and 99% reliable.

This was EXACTLY what I was looking for. Thank you.

Excellent

Wouldn't the bit bore the hole out as you used it?

That's a pretty nice solution when the required hole is shallow relative to the length of the drill bit. But - what do you recommend if the hole depth is comparable to the length of the bit?

@bengarland

2 жыл бұрын

I usually use some scrap 4x4 posts. Cut 2 pieces perfectly square (on the ends) with a miter saw, about 6” long each. Then lay the blocks flat at right angles to one another, so that the inside corner that is formed is where your desired hole will be. When you align the bit into the corner of the two pieces of wood, and the wood is flat against the drilling surface, then you know that the bit is straight in the X and Y directions. If that doesn’t make sense I can take a photo. Honestly the method in this video is ridiculously complicated compared to the two 4x4 block method. Edit: check this video at 3:30 mark: kzread.info/dash/bejne/e6yktMqtgMjQetY.html It’s basically the same concept, except this guy cut a single piece of wood to contain a 90 deg angle instead of butting two 4x4 blocks against one another (or smaller wood if your bit is less than 3.5” long)

This is a great concept. I have a drill guide block but my latest project has an odd sized drill. Now I know how to make a custom one off jig!

Awesome !

Thanks man!!!!!!

Brilliant!!!!! This was the first result in my search and couldn't have been better. Thank you so much!

You make it so simple. I wish all tutorial are like this.

Could I use this idea for drilling straight holes in an overhead surface, like a ceiling or cross beam?

Creative, clever. Thanks.

Just found your channel. Brilliant.

Could have used Metal Tube in the Build for the first hole size & inserted other close fitting tubes for smaller sized holes (reducing the number of Jigs you'd have make) OK, quite limited given tube sizes available, but should be good for 2 or 3 other sizes ??

Absolutely genius.

The video editing is top-notch! Kudos for that!

Now thats the way to do it,TY very much .Learn something new every day .

What a good idea. Simple and effective. Next time I have some ply handy this is my next little project

Thanks.

Thanks for sharing.. Simple yet brilliant. These kind of jigs are so expensive to buy

I like the concept of using multiple pieces glued together to make a hole jig. Could make a jig for different size holes using the same concept. Was planning of making holes to hold coins for different types of wooden cell phone stands of various sizes. I would have used a drill bit the size of the holes inserted into the holes of all the cut pieces before glueing all the small pieces together. Other than that it was a good idea.

That's really cool

Absolutely brilliant! Thankyou for sharing this!

This is so simple yet so effective

What I want to achieve just that I am drilling a 1/4 thick piece of acrylic… on the side. Got a feeling that ain’t gonna go so well lol😅

Exactly what I was looking for. Thanks a lot !

Cool!!!

I love it... simple enough for me to do....Thanks

will it be straight in alignment on the bottom? as the top?

I learned somethingg today.

very cool

Just the video I was looking for.

Very interesting. Subscribed to videos with value. Thanks.

Woodworking without a saw! Good jig. Have not seen this before in my 70 years. However, every woodworker should endeavor to own a decent drill press. Thanks.

@cosador

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your comment. I totally agree, in the long term any maker should acquire a decent tool collection.

@KitLaughlin

4 жыл бұрын

@@cosador But, a counter argument: I am restoring a wooden boat at present, and there are zero straight bits of timber in it-so a tiny jig like this is perfect. 95% of the time, I simply could not use a drill press on board, because there's not enough space to use one. Two thumbs up from me.

Clever.

Very accurate and affordable method! It helps me a lot!

Thank you, that is so simple.

Drill bushings and egg cups work great.

Ahhh! Nice. I wasn't sure if there was a technique to drill a straight hole without a press other than practice, so I Googled it and found your video. Thanks!

I will try it

Great vid, very, very worthwhile info and so simple.

Would you happen to know how to lathe something without a lathe machine?

Hah! GENIUS! Thank you, I will do this! 👍🏼

How would you drill a hole in acrylic without breaking it?

If you want to know how to make it yourself, just look for woodprix.

@wendylammington6264

4 жыл бұрын

Perfect tip I think

What a delightful video

Clever

Any recommendations on how to drill straight on a surface that is NOT flat??? ....i need to drill a hole in my oil pump to tap and install a thread insert for the tensioner to be torqued down to specification..... And i need to do this while it's on the engin coz it's too much effort to remove the oil pump

Hi, thanks for your video-hint! I have to drill a vertical log horizontally, but the surface is not regular... Do you have any suggestion? the drill bit is 22mm x 500mm, and the log is about 400mm diameter. thanks a lot

I would suggest use even thinner material, laid up in more layers. At 1mm thick per jig layer, there is far less likelihood of each hole being skewed. This will reduce the accumulation of error.

How would you still center along axis of a dowel without drill press or lathe?

I have problems drilling vertically into concrete floor. After drilling, I insert stainless steel shaft (about 3" long and 8mm diam). Most times the shafts are at a slight angle and can be problematic for my work.

This is brilliant 👍 Thanks 🙏

Brilliant! Thanks.

Excellent content and so well delivered, thank you.

Any tips on how to apply this to a round piece of wood ?

@nathanaelfertich801

4 жыл бұрын

j1g2w3 I actually need the same thing

Very very good

or you could just use a drill press to make the jig and use the jig to not have to use a drill press.

Spiffy - thanks

Damn this is smart

Hi it's a fantastic good idea and with the use of cheap tools , so many videos on here have been made with expensive machinery which to me is ironic. But because your idea is of wood won't the hole wear out after a few goes because u take some of the wood as you still.

@cosador

5 жыл бұрын

Timber does wear out but metal does too, however the methodology with making both is not that different. Thank you for your comment.

@ChristopherClaudioSkierka

5 жыл бұрын

@@cosador thanks for the reply, its a good angle you have taken - make cost effect solutions with low cost tools :)

@CLove511

5 жыл бұрын

I think the idea behind this is that it's fast, cheap, and easy, so you can use it until it's out of spec, then make another. That way, all you're losing is scrap MDF, not wearing down a more expensive jig.

Simple But GREAT... Thank You...!!!

How to drill a perfectly centered hole in a cylindrical shaped piece of wood like a dowel?

My gosh the black apron and the black gloves, he looks like those guys in the Hostel movies about to hack some poor bloke lol

Why there is no water compas at the back of the drill?

Yeeeaaahhh ima just go buy that $80 drill press off of Amazon 😂 ✌️

The question now if lining the drill up against something flat on the side would be better if I don't even have spare timber?

show de bola!UM dos melhores ja vistos; Greetings from Brazil

Дуже гарна ідея.

Just what I needed :)

Thank you for this.

Problem starts when you use a smaller bit (may not be accurate) or a bigger bit (will not fit). Unless you make a jig for every bit size.

Thanks for the idea. I'd prefer if you dropped the background music.

I´ll try it ¡¡

clever

and when the holes loosen?

This is awesome! Thanks!

Good idea BUT what is up with the "gloves"........................

@cosador

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Tony! I wear the gloves as a continuity tool amongst other things, I can't always get to do videos sequentially and my hands might get paint on them one day and then maybe old engine grease on them another, but this way the viewer is not confused. Very observant of you! Thank you for commenting.

@noomibotarchives9330

3 жыл бұрын

probably has creepy fingers.

marvelous idea

You are Brilliant