Make a Sandwich. For clean, precise holes in thin sheet metal, make a wood sandwich. Simply sandwich the sheet metal between two pieces of wood and clamp everything down on a table or workbench.

If you're trying to drill perfectly perpendicular holes through a piece of wood and finding yourself continually frustrated, try one of these quick hacks. By David Agrell Published: Jun 01, 2014 5 ...

Drilling holes in tile can be tricky, especially if you’re not using drill bits for tile. Attempting to drill tile with a ...

Drill a hole part way into a board, ... A wood plug cut to the same […] Skip to content. All Sections. Subscribe Now. 58°F. Thursday, October 10th 2024 eNewspaper. Home Page.

Photo/Tim CarterThe underbelly of this table shows how pocket holes were used to join the pieces of wood together. Q. Someone told me I could use a pocket hole jig to join two pieces of wood ...

If the metal of the hole saw is thick enough and you can position it at a 90-degree angle to the piece of wood you’re drilling you’ll end up with a clean, perfect hole in the door.

Your steady hands can't match the accuracy of a drill press, and this jig drills perfectly angled holes without fail. When the need arises to "toe screw" a couple pieces of wood (join them at an ...

If you need to line up dowel holes in two mated pieces of wood, here’s an old-timer’s trick. Mark the center point of the hole on one piece. Then take a BB, shotgun pellet or even a small ball ...