Using Hole Saw w/o Center Bit [message #29418] |
Tue, 15 March 2005 07:37 ![Go to next message Go to next message](/forum/theme/AudioRoundTable/images/down.png) |
GarMan
Messages: 960 Registered: May 2009
|
Illuminati (2nd Degree) |
|
|
Is it safe to use a hole saw on wood without the center drill bit? I'm looking for ways to make some 2" round knobs and was thinking of drilling them out from 1" stock with a hold saw. Problem is, I don't want the hole made by the center drill bit.
|
|
|
|
Re: Yes that's my Bugle knob [message #29421 is a reply to message #29420] |
Tue, 15 March 2005 11:53 ![Go to previous message Go to previous message](/forum/theme/AudioRoundTable/images/up.png) ![Go to next message Go to next message](/forum/theme/AudioRoundTable/images/down.png) |
GarMan
Messages: 960 Registered: May 2009
|
Illuminati (2nd Degree) |
|
|
Spin the wood on a drill and shape with a belt sander! Bill, you are a crazy man. I think I'm going to try the hole saw with the center bit to start the cut and then complete it without. I'll need the centre hole for the pot and switch attachement.
|
|
|
Re: Yes that's my Bugle knob [message #29423 is a reply to message #29421] |
Wed, 16 March 2005 20:57 ![Go to previous message Go to previous message](/forum/theme/AudioRoundTable/images/up.png) ![Go to next message Go to next message](/forum/theme/AudioRoundTable/images/down.png) |
Bill Martinelli
Messages: 677 Registered: May 2009
|
Illuminati (1st Degree) |
|
|
You can have good luck using a hole saw with noe center drill if you pre drill a hole with 'that hole saw' and clamp on the top of the new part you want to drill. The top guide wood should be 1/2 - 3/4 thick and clamped firmly onto the new piece to cut. A drill press is important for this type of work. using a hole saw with no center drill is hospital visit waiting to happen! Bill
|
|
|
Re: Sissy - Mary's!!! [message #29424 is a reply to message #29423] |
Thu, 17 March 2005 04:21 ![Go to previous message Go to previous message](/forum/theme/AudioRoundTable/images/up.png) ![Go to next message Go to next message](/forum/theme/AudioRoundTable/images/down.png) |
Lefty
Messages: 1 Registered: May 2009
|
Esquire |
|
|
Didja ever see the video where Frank Klausz makes an old-fasioned workbench and cuts the dovetail ends by by standing the 24"X72"X2" top up on the table saw? I wanta be like Frank! I cut all 4 ports with a no-drill-bit-hole-saw free hand with my Bosch for these 2Pi's. ![](http://home.att.net/~wsepstein/wsb/media/134428/site1210.jpg)
I was a little nervous but somehow avoided "porting" my legs. Safer to use the drill and belt sander.
|
|
|
Re: Sissy - Mary's!!! [message #29425 is a reply to message #29424] |
Thu, 17 March 2005 11:25 ![Go to previous message Go to previous message](/forum/theme/AudioRoundTable/images/up.png) |
GarMan
Messages: 960 Registered: May 2009
|
Illuminati (2nd Degree) |
|
|
Epstein, I'll leave the "Wile E. Coyote" methods of work to someone more experience like you. BTW, I got some dye stain like you suggested and played around with it over the past two weeks. Love the results compared to the gel stain I've been using. I'm going through a black-dyed open grain oak phase.
|
|
|