Thanks for the photos. That clarifies what you are doing. For some reason I was thinking you were drilling into the edges of the MDF.
A few months back I had to make a bunch of awards for a group. The bases are pieces of walnut that have holes drilled for mounting screws. I made a template the same size as the walnut pieces. It has holes drilled for each screw location and cleats around the sides to hold the work.
I clamped a piece of MDF to the drill press table and drilled a hole in it to receive a short pin. In use I put the walnut base into the template, set the template on the pin and drilled the hole. You need to set the depth stop so you don’t hit the pin with the drill.
I used a similar idea for a jig to make those triangular peg puzzles like this:
In this case the piece clamped to the rill press table used three ball bearings or marbles for locating the template. This was designed for a woodworkers guild to use at a fair where they’d have people visiting their booth drilling out the bases to make their own peg puzzles. The balls make it easier and faster to move from one hole to the next. And the three balls were used to prevent the thing from spinning if the the bit caught and the person doing the drilling wasn’t holding on real tight. It worked well and they had 86 people aged 5 to 97 make puzzles in about 6 hours.
thanks Dave
those jigs are awesome ! I love the idea of the marbles , These give me an idea of making the template you drew slightly longer allowing for a couple of cleats to hold onto the sides of the mdf base, making it easier to line up, if that works then I think the idea of having a metal guide made by CNC would be the best option
thanks again
I think the template would need to reference off the workpiece if I used a pin or marble ? IE : there would need to be a reference hole somewhere on the seat base ?
Something like this with the template being dropped onto a pin immediately under the drill bit. Or again, replace the pin with a ball bearing or a marble to make it easier to shift the work to the next hole.
Crikey !!
Im sitting here trying to add a guide brace to my original drawing and things are going crazy, in the meantime you have drawn a complete setup
Which version of LICECap do you have, and exactly what issue are you having? One thing I learned after some struggle is that the latest version doesn’t work unless you explicitly add the .gif extension onto the file name you are using to record.
Im using 1.29, there is quite a bit of info out there about LICEcap not working with Mac OS Catalina.
When trying to record the program just defaults to asking where you want the file saved.
you guys are going to cry / laugh when I show you what Im doing wrong again
after some researching it seems reinstalling it and then trying to use will prompt you to give the app permission to record the screen, seems to be working well now and yes you were correct about it not defaulting to adding the .gif extension
@DaveR can you see what Im doing wrong here please. All I wanted to do was add a small block to the underside of the main piece but I cant make it a separate component
, These give me an idea of making the template you drew slightly longer allowing for a couple of cleats to hold onto the sides of the mdf base, making it easier to line up, if that works then I think the idea of having a metal guide made by CNC would be the best option
