Thread: Bailey No 4 1/2

Originally Posted by Outsider

Hi all.

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To drill the hole in the tote I cut the appropriate angle of one end and glued it back on the other to allow me to drill at right angles to the drill press table. I then cut the glued piece off. Pics 4 & 5. The tote is upsidedown in Pix 4.

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Cheers.

That's clever thinking, I would have fought the drill press. Greenie on it's way.

Nice job overall.

nice work Outsider and clever too, love the BIG knob,
Fletty

Originally Posted by chrisb691

That's clever thinking, I would have fought the drill press. Greenie on it's way.

Nice job overall.

Ditto

Great work I'd been waiting on a tote making WIP

Nice tote, but here is something for everyone to consider. Given than by all reports drilling the hole for the tote is the hardest part as drill bits like to wander over that depth along the grain and considering that you laminated for extra strength; why not cut the drill line out of your centre lamination so you only have to drill the top section for the wider screw?

Great work and nice finish

Thanks all for your kind comments and the greenie

A couple of extra observations.

I had no trouble with the drilling. I used a forsner (really sawtooth) for the larger part of the hole.

The long tote screw was too short I had a disastrous time trying to turn the thread on a new one on the lathe (the thread kept snapping just as i was nearly finished, so in the end I cut the old one in half and used a small diameter copper pipe (the screw just fitted inside) and silver soldered the three bits together. Yah can't see it, it's in the tote. Wheres that blue and white striped apron.

The horn on the tote really should be finer, looking at the classy (read expensive) planes. O well it certainly works the way it is and fits my big mit.

Originally Posted by BrettC

Great work I'd been waiting on a tote making WIP

Not exactly a traditional tote, but a bit more on the subject:

http://www.woodworkforums.ubeaut.com...highlight=IanW

Yer, drilling the tote blanks can be a right pain - I've messed up a few perfectly good bits of wood myself. I set them up in a vise on the DP & work from both ends to meet roughly in the middle (with a slightly o/size drill). That way if one goes a bit off, you can straighten the hole a bit (enough to get the screw through comfortably, anyway).

Cheers,