{"id":5337,"date":"2026-02-09T16:18:41","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T22:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/staging\/3703\/?p=5337"},"modified":"2026-02-09T16:18:42","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T22:18:42","slug":"workshop-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/09\/workshop-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Workshop Project"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This Drill Press Belt Sander project caught my eye in a recent issue of Wordsmith magazine, a long time favourite magazine of mine that I recently re-subscribed to. It seemed like it would come in handy (some day ?) and I wanted a bit of a project to work on. I have a drill press and I thought I had most of the materials hanging around the shop as I keep most odds and sods, just in case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/staging\/3703\/wp-content\/IMG_8973-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8973-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8973-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8973-113x150.jpeg 113w, https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8973-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8973-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8973-scaled.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The Plan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Well, the deeper I got into the build the more I was making a run to Home Depot or Lee Valley or ordering some needed part online. I didn&#8217;t keep accurate track of the costs but I&#8217;m guessing a minimum of $200 of wood, knobs, hole saw, bolts, steel rod, threaded rod not to mention the sandpaper belts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anyway, in the end, success! Project complete.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/staging\/3703\/wp-content\/IMG_8974-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5339\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8974-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8974-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8974-113x150.jpeg 113w, https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8974-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8974-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8974-scaled.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The Result<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Drill Press Belt Sander project caught my eye in a recent issue of Wordsmith magazine, a long time favourite magazine of mine that I recently re-subscribed to. It seemed like it would come in handy (some day ?) and I wanted a bit of a project to work on. I have a drill press [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[238],"tags":[473,471,472,474,470],"class_list":["post-5337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-woodworking","tag-drill-press","tag-project","tag-sander","tag-woodsmith","tag-woodworking"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5340,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5337\/revisions\/5340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}