You can make maximum and precise holes in products based on natural wood, metal, MDF or chipboard using a special jig. This is an indispensable thing for those who produce furniture; such a device is also needed in other areas.
Such a conductor can be purchased ready-made, or you can make it yourself.
Conductors and templates are needed when assembling furniture. With these things, you will prevent a common problem that occurs during drilling - the drill hitting the part at the wrong angle. Correcting such an error will take an extremely long time, in some cases it will even be impossible.
A jig for making holes will not only allow you to correctly orient the working tool, but will also prevent it from straying from the desired trajectory.
In the furniture industry, conductors and templates are used in the following cases:
When using such a device, the assembly process will be much easier and faster; you will be able to make the necessary holes regardless of how far they should be located from the edge of the part and how wide it is.
When assembling furniture yourself, you often have to connect parts end-to-end using dowels. Holes for dowels are best made using a special jig. The peculiarity of dowels is that despite the fact that such fasteners, although outdated, are still relevant in furniture production.
The difficulty in their use lies in the fact that the axes of the holes that are made in the parts when connecting must have a right angle with each other. Accordingly, they must be placed strictly perpendicular to each other. It is difficult to do this without a special device. Therefore, if you want to achieve high quality performance, it is recommended to buy a dowel jig.
Hole jigs are used not only in furniture production. Quite often they are used when you need to make a hole in a pipe or other cylindrical part. Thanks to them, you can make a high-quality hole even in a pipe with a small diameter.
Such devices are universal and easy to use, so they are also used in the following industries:
Modern drilling jigs can be of different sizes and have different operating principles. Some of them are complex, so they are easier to buy. And some modifications can be made independently, especially since some serial furniture models, especially those with universal purposes, are expensive.
Essentially, such a jig acts as a template for making holes so that they are made as accurately as possible. They can be used for those holes whose axis is perpendicular to the surface of the workpiece, as well as for working at an angle.
This tool - great alternative sketches and manual measurements. You can place the drill strictly at the desired angle in relation to the workpiece and will not allow any deviation. The result will be especially noticeable when it comes to making deep holes.
If you use such a high-quality device for working with chipboard, then it should have the following characteristics:
Conductors are made from different materials; there are models based on plastic or organic glass. However, the best option is considered to be steel., which has such advantages as:
Very often, overhead models based on lightweight materials that are easy to manipulate are used as furniture jigs. Many people use factory or homemade tools.
And most qualified and experienced craftsmen They no longer use a jig because they can easily make a hole in structures on their own as accurately as possible. But not everyone can do this.
The key advantage of such a device is that the work can be performed as accurately and efficiently as possible, even by a person who does not have the proper experience. You don't have to do markings and complex preliminary calculations. You will save a lot of time and produce furniture much faster.
Before you buy a ready-made conductor or make it yourself, you need to decide what problems you will solve with its help and only then you need to select the appropriate option in terms of design and functions.
As already mentioned, depending on the scope of use and design, you can make some options yourself, thanks to which you will save a significant amount.
Before work, find the required device drawing and make everything strictly according to it.
Tools required for work:
To make the simplest version of the conductor with your own hands, we perform the following steps:
As you can see, such a device is very simple to make yourself, but it will greatly simplify your work if you are making furniture. If you are doing this exclusively as an amateur, then this option will be sufficient. If you can’t do it yourself, buy a ready-made option, perhaps the simplest and most inexpensive.
Here's some professional equipment will cost much more, the feasibility of purchasing it already exists when we are talking about at least small-scale mass production. But with its help you can easily and quickly connect pieces of furniture or repair it.
So, you have learned what a hole jig is and how it helps in furniture production. This device can be purchased ready-made or made by yourself.
Drill attachments, as well as attachments for this power tool, provide it with new functions and the ability to successfully solve various technological problems. Accessories for equipping a drill allow you to use it not only for drilling, but also as a mechanical saw, milling cutter, small lathe or even a pump for pumping liquids. Modern manufacturers offer a wide variety of attachments and attachments that make the drill truly multifunctional.
Of course, attachments and other accessories will not turn a drill into a device comparable in performance and processing accuracy to specialized equipment, but they can be used quite successfully to solve simple technological problems. It is very convenient to use elements of additional equipment of a drill to solve construction and repair problems, as well as many other issues related to maintaining housing in proper condition.
The most common drill attachment is a stop, which allows you to simply and quickly drill holes to the required depth. The design of the simplest stop device includes an auxiliary handle and the stop itself, on the surface of which a metric scale is applied.
A more complex design and, accordingly, greater functionality has a parallel stop, with which you can control not only the depth of the hole being made, but also the position of its axis relative to the surface of the workpiece or structure. Attachments of this type are produced both for tools used in construction and repair, and for wood drills.
Parallel stops, intended for use in conjunction with tools for construction and repair work, are installed on powerful drills, which are used to drill holes in concrete and brick building structures. This type of attachment consists of a stop with a scale and an auxiliary handle for the drill. Some rip fence models have a built-in suction unit for removing processing waste, which is connected to a vacuum cleaner.
Popular among home craftsmen are accessories for drills, with which they can be used to perform carpentry work. A drill equipped with such an attachment is, in fact, a small milling machine. Its design includes a vertical stand with guides along which a special basket with a power tool fixed in it moves. Of course, such a machine is not capable of providing the same accuracy and productivity of the processing performed as specialized equipment, but it is suitable for performing simple work in a home workshop.
A fairly large category among the elements of additional equipment for hand-held electric tools are attachments and attachments for drills, with which you can drill at an angle. This device for drilling holes works where it is not possible to use a conventional drill. The working head, depending on the model of this equipment, can be located at different angles (up to 90°) relative to the axis of rotation of the main drill chuck. The most popular and in demand are devices for drilling at an angle of 90 degrees.
On the modern market there are widely available devices for drilling holes that allow you not only to limit the depth of the holes created and control the verticality of their axis, but also to use the drill as a small router. Such devices are especially popular among home craftsmen who make their own furniture.
When using various working attachments on a drill for woodworking, you can perform many technological operations (in particular, side drilling of holes in products with a round or more complex configuration, requiring the use of special inserts). Some models of such devices are equipped with special suction units connected to a vacuum cleaner, with the help of which dust and small chips are removed from the treatment area. It should be borne in mind that even such functional devices do not allow turning a drill into a full-fledged manual milling cutter, which has the same operational capabilities, but provides higher accuracy and quality of processing.
Dust removal attachments for drills
No one will dispute the fact that using a drilling machine rather than a drill to form holes is much more convenient (and the accuracy of processing using stationary equipment is higher). Meanwhile, it is also possible from a hand-held power tool, for which it is used. Most modern models of such devices are equipped with a vice for fixing the part during processing, as well as a frame along which such a vice can move freely. The power tool itself is placed in a special drill holder (basket), which is a universal clamping device and can be used for almost any model of drilling tool. Such a device, on the stand of which an accurate metric scale is applied, is a very useful acquisition for any home craftsman, as it allows you to make holes with less labor and higher accuracy.
Attachments to drills are very popular, allowing them to be used as a wood lathe. Such equipment is fixed on the work table, and the drill itself acts as its drive mechanism. To install a drill into the design of such an attachment, a special stand and fastening mechanism are used.
Such attachments are available in various designs, with a different set of cutting tools and accessories, making it easy to realize the dream of many home craftsmen to have their own lathe. Of course, a lathe driven by a conventional electric drill cannot be compared with specialized equipment either in terms of service life or in the accuracy and productivity of the processing performed. If you use such an attachment in intensive mode, the electric drill will not withstand significant and prolonged loads and will eventually fail. That is why, in order not to be left without a drill, such an attachment should be used to perform simple and not too long wood turning work.
The most popular accessories for drills include attachments that allow you to turn such a tool into an electric sharpener or emery machine. Their installation does not pose any difficulties even for inexperienced craftsmen. Such attachments can be used not only for sharpening knives and circular saw blades, but also for restoring the geometric parameters of drills, turning tools, chisels and plane knives. Thus, by using such devices on a drill for sharpening, you can not only solve many everyday problems with their help, but also save on contacting qualified specialists. Even those who have no experience in this area can successfully use such sandpaper, including for sharpening cutting tools.
Additional equipment for a drill is necessary not only for home craftsmen, but also for professional furniture makers. Such equipment, in particular, includes an attachment for milling, with the help of which grooves are made in carpentry and furniture elements to create corner joints. When using such an attachment, there is no need to fix the workpieces in the clamping device. It provides high precision processing, and to create a groove of the required width and depth, it is equipped with special adjusting elements.
In order to effectively use tools driven by a drill even in the most inaccessible places, you can purchase a flexible drive or an angle adapter.
The flexible drive and the angle attachment for the drill are fixed at one end in the drill chuck. Their second end is equipped with a clamping device in which drilling, milling, abrasive and any other tool with a shank of a suitable diameter can be secured. When choosing between two such devices, it should be borne in mind that the flexible drive, from the point of view of processing hard-to-reach places, has greater capabilities than an angle attachment for a drill. The bending angle of such a drive is not limited to 90°, it can be any.
Examples of using angle attachments
The question of whether it is possible to use an electric drill as a drive for a pump intended for pumping liquids is not without meaning. To practically solve such a problem, you don’t have to come up with various homemade products, don’t rack your brains over making a reliable mount for a drill on the body of a standard pump, and don’t worry about which adapter to use. All these issues have already been thought through by specialists and implemented in the design of the pump attachment.
Such a pump for a drill, although not intended for long-term and intensive use, is capable of effectively solving many problems. In particular, it can successfully pump small volumes of both viscous liquids (such as oil or paint) and ordinary water. To change the pumping speed of the liquid medium, it is enough to change the number of revolutions made by the drill chuck. Since drill pump housings are usually made of plastic, they do not have a long service life, but this disadvantage is compensated by the low cost of such devices.
Electric drills are often used in combination with special templates, which not only increase the accuracy of drilling and further assembly, but also significantly speed up the processing process. Templates for professionals are made of metal and retain their geometric parameters for a long time. For home use, you can purchase an inexpensive plastic template, which, although not as durable as their metal counterpart, ensures high accuracy of the processing performed.
The meaning of drilling templates is that their design includes the standard sizes and location of holes that are most often made in elements of furniture structures. Thus, there are templates designed for drilling holes for fastening furniture hinges, inserting locks and installing furniture ties. In such templates, not only the distance between the holes being made is precisely maintained, but also the distance at which such holes should be from the edge of the workpiece.
Attachments used with drills are also used to expand the functionality of the latter. This includes, in particular, a range of drill attachments for cutting sheet metal. Such drill attachments for cutting metal can work as notching or nibblers. Even when used with a conventional drill or screwdriver, they demonstrate high efficiency. For example, such a drill attachment for cutting can cope with metal sheets up to 1.5 mm thick, mesh made of metal, and thick plastic.
In most cases, it is better to use a drill attachment for cutting metal rather than a manual or electric jigsaw. This is explained by the fact that a jigsaw, like many other devices with which you can cut sheet metal, contributes to intense heating of the processing area. This may cause the protective coating applied to the surface of the sheet to burn. Some of the most popular drill attachments used for cutting sheet metal include devices called "Cricket" and "Steel Beaver", as well as attachments that look like tin snips but are operated by a drill or screwdriver.
Among home craftsmen, as well as those who professionally engage in car body repairs, grinding and polishing attachments for drills are very popular. The working body with which such grinding attachments are equipped can be a drum with sandpaper glued to its surface, as well as a felt or felt disk.
The material through which the drill attachment for grinding will come into contact with the surface being processed is selected depending on the nature of the technological task. Thus, a grinding tool, with which rougher processing is performed, is often made of an abrasive material of the appropriate grain size, and felt or felt is glued to the polishing tool. A brush attachment, installed in the drill chuck using its shank, is also used as a polishing tool.
The drill attachment for polishing a car can be used not only after body repairs have been completed, but also in cases where the owner of the vehicle wants to give it its original shiny appearance. If you want to save on purchasing grinding attachments for a drill, you can make such a device yourself. For this, a homemade wooden drum is suitable, in the central part of which the shank must be securely fixed. Using this structural element, such a device will be fixed in the drill chuck. Sanding and polishing with a drill using a drum like this can be done using materials such as sandpaper, felt and felt.
Power tool attachments used for cleaning products made of various materials work on a similar principle. Thus, metal and abrasive attachments, as well as a brush attachment, can be used to clean metal products. The brush is made of metal wire and allows you to effectively clean the surface of the product from dirt, rust and remnants of old paintwork. The brush itself, which is equipped with such attachments, can be located on the end or side of the device (it all depends on the tasks to be solved). Such attachments also differ in the material from which the brush is made. Such materials, in particular, can be polymer fibers or metal wire.
Using a mortar mixing attachment, a regular drill can be turned into an effective construction mixer. Mixing construction and finishing mixtures, which is done using a mixer attachment for a drill, is carried out not only quickly, but also efficiently. It is only important not to exceed the volume of the mixture to be kneaded, so as not to reduce the effectiveness of using such a device.
Speaking about what can be done with the help of additional equipment used in conjunction with hand-held electric tools, we should also mention the riveter attachment for the drill. The tool on which such a nozzle is installed must have a reverse function, and the rivet fixed using such a device can only be of the pull-out type.
When working with a hand drill, it can sometimes be difficult to maintain the specified direction of the hole. Conductors are also used if it is necessary to make a series of similar holes according to a template. For example, during carpentry work. In this case, the master does not waste time marking the tree, and is guaranteed to get the same result.
The jig is indispensable when drilling holes in pipes. But the main application is to pass holes at a given angle.
Let's consider various options for this useful device:
A simple furniture jig for drilling holes when assembling metal furniture. Details in the video material
Purpose - to obtain passes in thick workpieces, strictly at an angle of 90°. It is a set of bushings in a single body, or a bracket with replaceable working attachments.
By installing the device above the drilling point, you can start working without pre-punching. The drill accurately hits the center of the sleeve and does not deviate from the axis.
Important! The only problem is that the tool must be held on the workpiece, especially at the beginning of work. Otherwise, vibration may cause it to shift.
You can make such a drilling jig with your own hands. Thick textolite or solid wood is used. The ideal option is to use extruder bushings for drawing wire. Worn bushings can be found at the factory. 
The extruder nozzles are made of alloy steel, with the addition of pobedite. The service life is practically inexhaustible.
Making a hole in a sloping surface is almost impossible. It is especially difficult to start the process - the tip of the drill jumps off the specified point. The device will fix the direction and allow you to perform the work with high accuracy. 
By adjusting the length of the fixing bolts, you can drill a hole tangentially to the center. If you don’t have such a tool at hand, you can make it from scrap materials. For example, from a block of hard wood and a strip of plywood. 
To prevent the guides from being broken so quickly by the sharp edges of the drill, they can be reinforced with sleeves made of tubes of different diameters.
This type of drilling is not very common, however, there are ways to fasten products to each other when this technology cannot be done without. 
In fact, the hole is made tangentially, which is almost impossible to do while holding the drill with your hands.
Important! In metal parts, such recesses can only be made using a milling cutter.
And for wooden blanks there is a ready-made kit. 
Any carpenter is familiar with this method of drilling; professionals use this device all the time. Working with the jig is easy: you set the drilling height, the workpiece is pressed tightly against the stop, and you get precise oblique holes. 
A stop-limiter must be put on the drill, otherwise the hole will end up through. Then the screw head will fall through. In addition, it is better to do such fasteners using a special drill with a double diameter. 
It is difficult to make such a device yourself. Although there are simple options that are not particularly accurate. 
There is a separate type of device: for drilling at an angle with an adjustable tilt. This is a specific jig that is not suitable for all workpieces. 
The type of fastener indicated above is only suitable for an array. Pressed slabs cannot be joined this way.
A hole jig is a small strip that has hole patterns located at specific angles and having different diameters for drilling. In essence, this tool is designed to solve the problem of positioning the drill at the correct angle to the material being processed. After all, it is sometimes simply impossible to correct such a mistake.
The drilling jig is actually a template of holes that allows you to make them with maximum accuracy. They can be divided into two types:
The tool has such versatility that it is used in various fields of industry. For several decades it has been very actively used in the engineering and construction industries. After all, it allows you not only to drill holes in the required workpieces at different angles and with excellent accuracy, having different configuration features. With its help, holes can be easily drilled in various building structures, as well as pipes made of any material, etc. The jig is often used in the furniture industry, as it greatly simplifies the process of fastening fittings and assembling its various parts. In fact, this is only a small range of tasks that a conductor can solve.
Based on functionality and design functionality, drilling jigs are divided into types:
Such templates allow you to maintain perpendicularity between the pipe or sphere and the drill itself. It is very important.
In furniture production, it is practically impossible to do without jigs or similar templates, especially when assembling all the structural elements of future furniture. First of all, they correct such an error as an incorrect angle of entry of the drill into the workpiece. As you know, correcting such an error is very difficult, sometimes even impossible, and if possible, it takes a lot of time. The jig not only allows you to position the drill relative to the part, but also allows it to move away from the intended drilling direction during work.
They are used when you need to drill holes for fasteners. In this case, a conductor for confirmants or dowels is used. Without them, drilling such holes is simply impossible. And how often does it happen that when assembling furniture, a shortage of a certain number of holes is discovered that is necessary for final assembly.
A jig for drilling holes at an angle is used for assembling furniture. It is often used for drilling not too thick MDF boards or chipboards, plywood. Also used in production. They can be manufactured either in a specialized design, for specific operations, or in a more universal form. They reduce the time required to make inclined holes. Moreover, it will not be possible to make them exactly the same by eye.
At home you don’t often have to drill at an angle, but the need arises. This kind of conductor can be made independently, or you can buy it. The reason is that if you do not engage in mass production, then preparing templates for non-standard holes will most likely not justify the costs. It will be easier and cheaper to try to drill the hole as needed, but with small deviations, than to make templates. It may never be useful again. It's up to the owner to decide.
Used for assembling furniture. Should allow simultaneous drilling of holes without changing the device. For manufacturing, different materials are used that have different strength characteristics. The most durable unit can be considered a steel unit.
Also the simplest jig for drilling a hole for confirmation. Such a conductor can be assembled at home without much difficulty. It makes sense to assemble it yourself if you are engaged in professional furniture manufacturing. It is not practical to drill one or two holes.
More complex drawings can be taken from any sources on the Internet. As the design of the device becomes more complex, its range of uses expands. In order not to bother with structurally complex devices, you can make them from readily available materials, such as metal plates, wooden beams, fittings or corners. To work with metal, you may need welding materials, although you can attach the fixing elements to threaded bolts.
According to its functional purpose, the jig acts as a template according to which it is necessary to drill a hole in the required material with maximum accuracy to the original. This template greatly facilitates the work of the master when he needs to drill a strictly vertical, horizontal or inclined hole.
The master no longer needs to make sketches and measurements, having such a tool with him. The drill is positioned strictly at the required angle, which is necessary during the work process and cannot deviate. This improves the accuracy of the work, which can be seen in deep holes.
To work with furniture, the conductor must meet the following requirements:
The materials from which conductors are made have different strength characteristics. These are mainly plastic and glass made from organic raw materials. But the strongest ones are made from metals, namely steel. Therefore, when choosing, you should pay attention to the following characteristics:
In furniture production, lighter conductors are used that are easy to handle. Factory or homemade options can be used.
It should be noted that a real master has a trained eye, so often he does not need all these devices to make the hole correctly.
A clear advantage of such tools is ease of use. With their help, even an inexperienced person can perform all the work at the level of a skilled worker. Here you don’t even need to do any complex calculations or have enormous experience. Its main purpose is to speed up the work process many times over.
A DIY jig for drilling holes is an excellent alternative to store-bought options. Because the store does not always have exactly the option that is required at the moment. You can assemble it yourself at home.
Let's consider a more popular and standardized option, suitable for more frequently performed work, such as furniture assembly.
Reinforcement with a diameter of 10 mm or more will be required. Using a cutting tool, such as a grinder, cut into pieces of the required length. Clean the workpieces with sandpaper. According to the standard, all drilled holes have a distance of 32 cm from each other. Make marks and drill holes. The next stage involves creating reference points for our blanks. A plate made of any metal is perfect for these purposes. Thickness from 1 mm. It is unwise to use a thicker plate, since it only increases the weight of the entire device. They are connected together and then places for threaded fastening are outlined. They are connected and secured to each other. That's all, the device is ready to use.
The main purpose of the jig, which is also the most important thing, is to simplify the work with the drill and reduce the time of assembling furniture. The difference between a purchased device and a home-made device is its adjustment to the specific needs of the master.
A drilling jig is an indispensable attribute in large-scale production, no matter what kind. Where there is a lot of drilling, it is really necessary, especially when production is serial or mass.
With the help of a conductor, production is greatly accelerated and the worker's work is made easier.
A drilling jig, as a rule, is a bar (plate) with holes and bushings (sleeves). Using a jig it is much easier, for example, to drill pipes.
As for furniture production, they are also used here, although relatively recently.
With the help of such equipment, the manufacturer is relieved of the following problems:
The latter is especially difficult to achieve, since it requires serious skills acquired only over the years.
Some operations, for example, drilling for dowels (short wooden rods designed for hidden joining of parts), require very precise markings, and no less accurate drilling at an angle of 90°.
With such a device as a conductor, these tasks are solved easily and simply.
Invoices. They do not require fixation before being used for their intended purpose. Structurally simple, mobile, but they need to be held with a hand free from the drill, since often the equipment is not secured in a special device, which is not very convenient. Considering the simplicity of the design, making it yourself is quite simple. Used when drilling chipboard and MDF.
Jigs for drilling holes at an angle. The design is easy to imagine, since the name speaks for itself. Such equipment can also be an overhead one. In the production of high-quality furniture, there is also drilling at an angle, which is not the simplest operation in the production process - this requires skill. Although in this case, sometimes the required angle is violated, as a result the assembly will no longer be of such high quality and the appearance of the furniture will suffer, especially if it is not made of chipboard, but of wood - here you can’t fill in an ugly drill. Equipment of the required design completely eliminates unnecessary problems.
Rotary conductors. They have folding brackets, and this allows drilling on two adjacent planes.
Sliding gearboxes. With their help, you can drill several holes without reinstallation. To work with such equipment, the necessary skills are still required.
Despite the fact that today a lot of new accessories have appeared in the furniture industry, the good old dowel is still used. This is explained by the fact that the connections are not visible through this piece of fittings, and this is especially valuable in the production of furniture made from natural wood.
As already mentioned, drilling for dowels creates many problems for furniture makers, especially those who are not sufficiently qualified.
In order for the furniture planes to be perfectly aligned, precise markings are necessary, and this equipment allows you to speed up the work and bring the quality to the desired level.
Working with confirmats - special furniture screws - although less troublesome, also requires certain skills. And considering how many holes need to be marked and drilled before screwing the confirmation into one piece of furniture, such a device will significantly speed up the work, and its quality too.
Procedure for working with a conductor:
The principle of this equipment:
Designing your own jig should be based on the fact that with the help of this equipment it is possible to do most of the work performed related to various types of fasteners.
Important! If you need a universal assistant - this applies to professional furniture makers, then it would be better to purchase industrial equipment that is made more accurately and with high quality. It is this kind of device that will be preferable and will quickly pay for itself, especially if you also take into account the fact that this device often comes with many different templates, stops and other little things that are also necessary in the work. They are much cheaper than buying at retail.
And yet this device, if necessary, can be made with your own hands.
Such equipment may not be needed very often in any given industry, and even more so for a home craftsman. So for many users it will be much more profitable to do it themselves.
If the design of such remains relevant, then you need to prepare materials for the manufacture of a homemade conductor for drilling for confirmation:
Instead of pipes, of course, you can use ready-made bushings used in wire drawing machines - these are available, for example, in mechanical engineering. Such parts (even used ones) come in handy: they are made of alloy steel and have an almost unlimited service life.
Options:
Modern furniture uses not only chipboard, fibreboard, MDF and wood. Steel pipes of various diameters can be used as additional elements. Covered with chrome or stainless steel, they perfectly complement the overall furniture ensemble.
It is very difficult to drill into a spherical surface - the drill tends to slide to the side. And it’s not so easy to mark when there are a lot of holes and they are located in several rows.
In order to ensure that the pipe does not turn out to be the notorious colander, but a correct part with precisely made holes, you will need a jig - this is the ideal solution in this situation.
There are steel conductors made in the form of an adjustable clamp. This design feature allows you to clamp pipes of different diameters into them and drill holes in them with high precision.
Not being able to make such a device, you can use waste materials, making an even simpler device using a block and a strip of plywood. Thus, a block cut diagonally along a circular saw can be nailed or screwed with screws at an angle of 90° to the plywood. The resulting device is placed on top of the pipe, and a strip of plywood, resting against a table or workbench, prevents the specified angle from being violated. Holes of the required diameter pre-drilled in the block are placed taking into account the required distances between future holes, which will allow you to quickly and accurately drill the pipe exactly according to the drawings.
How conductors are made is now clear, as is their necessity for furniture production.
Not only conductors, but also templates are needed in furniture production. The simplest template will sometimes save a lot of time and allow drilling to be no less accurate than a jig.
For example, the simplest metal prefabricated template, consisting of two sheet blanks measuring 130x70 mm and a steel square with a cross-section of 20 mm. They are connected to each other with screws at the top of the structure - this is how they are attached to the square. The square is drilled for the bushings, where the latter are pressed. Such a device for drilling holes in the end of a part made of chipboard will make it possible to drill without thinking about marking and perpendicular drilling. And the price of this equipment is below any idea of savings.
Instead of metal, you can and should use those materials that are inexpensive and easy to process.
Materials:
It must be borne in mind that these materials are short-lived, and so that the devices do not have to be made every day, it is quite reasonable to press metal tubes into them.
In conclusion, it is worth summing up what has been said. Making a conductor or template yourself or buying it in a store is a matter for everyone individually. If a home craftsman needs to make some furniture in a single copy and there is material for a conductor, as well as the possibility of making it, you can use this. It is possible that such equipment will never be useful to the master again.
But if even a small furniture workshop is engaged in the production of serial furniture, and there are enough people working in it, it is probably easier to purchase something ready-made, especially since they will need these irreplaceable assistants to the craftsmen in several copies.
In the latter case, it makes sense to purchase more expensive, accurate and wear-resistant jigs instead of making homemade ones, which are less accurate and durable.
Good luck in your work!
