Turret Board

Well, I finished the board but it is not up to my freakishly exacting standards so I am going to try another one. The color is a little too orangey for me anyway, so I think I am just going to use a red swirl color on the next attempt. A slow start...

I supported the board using a parts drawer. Perfect height! I used a hammer and the other end of the Hoffman turret tool to seat the turrets. I have tried using a my drill press but it is a pretty bootleg one and does not work as good a a hammer. Does anything work as good as a hammer?

I am going to press the turrets in anyway just to see how it looks and if I can use the board. I used the base of my drill press to hold the Hoffman turret tool .

Here is the board with the template removed. I tried drilling a little too quickly and it tore the bottom of he board a little bit. I am going to keep going as an experiment.

I am not too happy with my drilling. I have OCD so if something is a little off, it drives me nuts! The template was sliding around too much when I was drilling. Also a bunch of board dust got under the template.

Next I used some packing tape to tape the template to the board material. It seems to be bubbling up in the middle. I am going to try and drill it anyway.

I used a program called Concept Draw to make a template. The hole centers are 3/8" apart

I ordered some brown 10 1/2" by 3 1/8" turret board material from Ken Watts at Turretboards.com. I am going to attempt to drill my own perforated turret board.