{"id":266402,"date":"2025-06-01T04:40:15","date_gmt":"2025-06-01T04:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/entertainment\/art\/mind-upon-mind-a-method-for-accurately-drilling-compound-angles\/"},"modified":"2025-06-01T04:40:15","modified_gmt":"2025-06-01T04:40:15","slug":"mind-upon-mind-a-method-for-accurately-drilling-compound-angles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=266402","title":{"rendered":"Mind Upon Mind: A Method for Accurately Drilling Compound Angles"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Editor\u2019s note: Our Mind Upon Mind series is a nod to a 1937 Chips from the Chisel column (also featured in \u201cHonest Labour: The Charles H. Hayward Years<\/a>\u201d), in which Hayward wrote, \u201cThe influence of mind upon mind is extraordinary.\u201d The idea being there\u2019s often room for improvement. (You can read the entire Chips from the Chisel column\u00a0here<\/a>.)<\/em><\/p>\n

And so we ask for submissions: After building projects from our books, what else have you thought of, tried out and improved upon?<\/em><\/p>\n

Today\u2019s submission is from Jay Abramovitz<\/strong> in Voorhees, New Jersey.<\/em><\/p>\n

I came up with an approach for accurately drilling holes at compound angles that has worked surprisingly well for me.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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I started with three 2\u2032 narrow lengths of pine.\u00a0I glued two pieces together to form the \u201cfoot\u201d of the jig. I attached the third piece (the \u201carm\u201d) to the foot by drilling a hole through both pieces. I used a machine screw with a wing nut, which allowed the arm to rotate.\u00a0 I then attached two long eye screws to the opposite end of the arm a few inches apart to form a \u201cgun sight\u201d of sorts.<\/p>\n

By placing the foot on my workpiece, I was able to line up the straight edge of the foot with my sightline.<\/p>\n

I rotated the arm to the resultant angle needed (measured with a protractor) then moved the jig forward or back along the sightline on the workpiece until the location for the hole on the workpiece\u00a0(the \u201cbullseye\u201d if you will) could be sighted through the two holes of the eye screws.<\/p>\n

I then secured the foot to my workpiece with a clamp to make sure it didn\u2019t move.<\/p>\n

I placed a piece of tape on the back of my drill and used a Sharpie to mark a large dot on the tape in line with the long axis of the drill bit.<\/p>\n

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I then positioned my drill bit on the location for the hole on the workpiece and positioned the drill so that the dot on the back could be sighted through the two holes of the eye screws. I kept the dot on the back of the drill lined up with the center of the two holes on the eye screws as I drilled (like viewing a target through a gun sight, if you will). I then knew I was drilling dead on my sightline.<\/p>\n

Did you change up one of our projects or do you have a clever idea for an improvement? Email\u00a0kara@lostartpress.com<\/a>. You can read more about the submission process\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2014 Kara Gebhart Uhl<\/em><\/p>\n

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