OK I'm stumped. I'm trying to get a set of leg's in a stool I'm making. The two front legs are pitched 10 deg out to the side and 20 deg out to the front. My drill table rotates right and left (need deg) and what is my degree of rotation of the work pc? Perhaps someone has a formula. The back legs are 10 deg both ways.
Ah ha! same problem for Windsor chairmakers. I once wrote a small program to figure the complex angle, but I find it easier to adjust the drillpress table right or left (10-deg in your case) and put a temporary platform plywood on top of the cast iron table with two wedges glued to the underside. In your case, the simple angle of the wedges would be 20-deg. No calcs needed. Dave
The easiest way I found to do it is to tilt the drill press to 10° (in my case, 6°) to the left and later to the right. I found out that a degree or so off makes a big difference to the footprint of the legs, so I used a long drill bit and machinist protractor for a more accurate setting. (see -
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I then tilted the seat up (20° for you) using a 20° wedge. To make an accurate wedge, I rough cut a 4" x 4" piece of cedar to nearly the angle. Then, using a sled, I ran it through the planer for an accurate wedge. For instance making a sled 6" long on the horizontal leg and 2 3/16" for the vertical leg gives a 20° wedge. I believe I have a pic or two of the setup if you want it.
For the other two legs, use a 10° shim. Just curious, why the difference in angles between the front and rear legs?
If I read you right, you want to use one angle. Figuring the resulting angle of the diagonal of a plane tilted 10° one way and 20° is straight forward, given the seat dimensions, but setting up a jig with one angle to hold the seat in the proper orientation is not. I tried this first and found later it was easier to tilt the table and then the seat. The only caveat is the fence on the drill press table must be 90° to a line through the center of the drill press column and the chuck. That is easy to achieve. Once I figure it all out and set it up, I drilled a handful of seats in no time.
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Even lower tech might be a hand drill with two sliding bevels set to the appropriate angles. If you are only making one piece, it seems to be a lot of set up for each hole. Lots of set up = lots of potential for error. (IMHO)
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