What uses do you find for the horizontal boring feature?

BuckeyeDennis · Post by **BuckeyeDennis** » Thu Jan 16, 2014 1:55 pm

Here's a special jig for making wooden hinges. It incorporates multiple drill bushings to keep the bit from wandering. The link has some nice how-to photos as well.

reible · Post by **reible** » Thu Jan 16, 2014 4:37 pm

That is the jig I used for this project:

http://www.shopsmith.net/forums/showpos ... ostcount=9

The hole size is 1/8" and you use 1/8" dia brass rod for the pin.

Ed

BuckeyeDennis wrote:Here's a special jig for making wooden hinges. It incorporates multiple drill bushings to keep the bit from wandering. The link has some nice how-to photos as well.

harveydunn · Post by **harveydunn** » Thu Jan 16, 2014 5:07 pm

Thanks Ed. What is the "joint matic" you refer to in the linked post?

robinson46176 · Post by **robinson46176** » Thu Jan 16, 2014 5:18 pm

If you can find a board 100' long you can drill an accurate hole (or holes) in either end of it.

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reible · Post by **reible** » Thu Jan 16, 2014 5:48 pm

Shopsmith use to make them, in the most basic terms it is a horizontal router table.... Now if you want want you would have to shop the used market.

This is the link to the whole post:

https://forum.shopsmith.com/viewtopic.php?p=27139

Ed

harveydunn wrote:Thanks Ed. What is the "joint matic" you refer to in the linked post?

algale · Post by **algale** » Thu Jan 16, 2014 7:40 pm

harveydunn wrote:Thanks everyone.

What else do you use the horizontal borer for?

JPG - interesting idea about the "faux knuckles". How would you secure the ends of the pins that are not visible?

Edge joining boards with dowels (to make a table top for example) is another classic use for horizontal boring.

JPG · Post by **JPG** » Thu Jan 16, 2014 8:50 pm

algale wrote:Edge joining boards with dowels (to make a table top for example) is another classic use for horizontal boring.

I would still have a dowel in the outer knuckles.

If Ya wanna go totally blind, use springs for the pin. one in each end. Compress the spring into the blind hole, then slip the knuckles in. Tricky, once together, that's all!!!!

I do like that jig!

charlese · Post by **charlese** » Thu Jan 16, 2014 11:48 pm

Another use of horizontal boring - Using a router bit to make mortises.

forrestb · Post by **forrestb** » Fri Jan 17, 2014 12:50 am

When making my quilt rack, I needed to bore holes for the dowel attaching the stretcher to the legs. I would have spent hours trying to design a jig to position the workpiece correctly for an upright drill press. The SS solved it right away.
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JPG · Post by **JPG** » Fri Jan 17, 2014 7:53 am

Boring into an edge/end rather than a face.

i.e. large surface(face) flat to the table.

With the ss(in horizontal mode) the quill is perpendicular to the edge/end.

In drill press mode, the quill is perpendicular to the face.

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What uses do you find for the horizontal boring feature?

or where an odd-shaped piece needs drilling