Bugs wrote:

What you've made is basically a spade bit. If you advance 1/8"/ rev. it
is going to make a very rough hole and possibly jam or split the wood.
Ideally the bit will take about .003" to .005 per rev. and make a nice
clean hole zero to three degrees of relief should work.
Bugs


Yea. Can you imagine 1/8 in feed per rev. ???? :-) I wonder how many
horse power that drill press has? and what sort of down feed gearing??
Sorry. I was going to ignore this but I see there is a at least one
response. :-)
...lew...