Quote Originally Posted by Mike Blue View Post
The only caution that I'd add, hopefully everyone has thought of this, is that a drill press does not take to lateral forces very well. The bearings on the quill are not as stout as say on a milling machine.

Take only small cuts, very thin cuts and do not try to hog off a quarter inch at a time. Eventually your drill press will not want to play that game any more, make odd noises, and drilling regular holes will start to get strange.

I wonder how this kind of fence would work on one of those vertical bobbin type of sanders? Like this: Buy Jet Benchtop Spindle Sander Model 708404, Jet Benchtop Spindle Sander, Seems like those would be build for lateral forces a little better.

Kudos to everyone for being creative with tooling. These are all admirable "make-do's".
That's a good point Mike... also I'll add that you have to go slow and take small passes. If you push a piece through quickly it will flex both the mandrel and the drum so your thickness will not be uniform. You have to go very slowly. Doing this on a spindle sander would probably be a better long time solution, but if you have a piece that is begging to be turned into scales this might get you by.