Back to the drill press problem- yes, I would love an XY table for my drill press for the occasional really precise need. But in general, I’d just love it if the drill press fence would lend itself to adjustments in a bit less of a haphazard manner than my existing one does. I can’t fully explain it, but I just get the feeling that if this fence offered fixed holes instead of solely the long slots, it would make it more useful for various uses. One such case would be if you ever choose to run a drill press with a mortising attachment. By adjusting the fence, ESPECIALLY if you had a mortise that was wider than your hollow mortising chisel, you’d need to re-square the chisel against the fence every single time. To me, that seems like it would end up being a total headache. If a fence adjusts along a fixed axis/plane, I just get the sense it would make a lot of fidgety aligning moments simpler?
While I had initially been looking mostly at just getting one of the woodpeckers drill press tables, now I’m considering building my own.
