Every once in a while it’s necessary to bore a hole in the end of longish piece of wood. For that you have a couple of choices; put the wood in the vice and drill into the end eyeballing the hole, or make some sort of jig and do it on the drill press.
I must confess that I often have been in something of a rush and gone with the first option but it’s rarely perfect and depending on the size of the wood and the size of the drill bit can be a tad unsafe. Far better then, especially if you have more than one to do is to make some sort of jig. The drawing shows one option and it’s one that works well, which once made can be stored in the workshop for future use. The one caveat to success is to ensure that the drill press table is perfectly perpendicular to the drill spindle, which is easy enough to check with a decent square.
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