Comments on: 112 – Drill Charging Station & DowelMax

By: Donald

Donald — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 08:18:51 +0000

I love that idea and the idea of adding a drawer on the bottom cool idea

By: noumenon

noumenon — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 13:50:34 +0000

For those of you wondering about joint strength between dowels and mortise and tenon here is a guy doing some independent testing. http://woodgears.ca/joint_strength/index.html

By: Christopheralan

Christopheralan — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 19:44:26 +0000

Well I got around to making my charging station, based on your design and installed with French cleats. Love it man! Well done on the design and thanks for the great info!

By: Jaime Prado

Jaime Prado — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 06:00:59 +0000

Marc:
It took me a while to decide on buying this US$ 300 plus system, with my devalued Colombian pesos. Finally I bought it few months ago.
I have used it several times, and I am very happy with it. It is a very simple to use and very precise tool.
It looks small for the price… But at the end I realized that what you pay is for a good solution, and this system does it very well.
Marc, your videos are excellent!
“Muchas gracias”
Jaime Prado, Cali, Colombia

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 18:14:57 +0000

Great video Marc, I always learn something from you. I went to the site very excited until I saw the price :(

By: thewoodwhisperer

thewoodwhisperer — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 22:29:52 +0000

I don’t have anything planned. The DowelMax is a great system, but I doubt it will get any more use than the other joinery systems I own (FMT and Domino).

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:47:55 +0000

Hey Marc, any plans to use the Dowelmax in any future projects?

By: Thad

Thad — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:39:24 +0000

I have owned the Dowel max for about 2 years now, I love this
dummy proof, very reliable piece of equipment.
The initial cost was really hard to get over(especially for the finance dept).
As Marc said once your set up and all your check marks are in place production and assembly is a breeze.
By the way the finance dept used this to build her own entry table(it was on the to do list)now she wants her own bench!

By: Robarov

Robarov — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:26:35 +0000

Yeah that figured :o)
But i didn t see a battery in the De Walt charger – so i thought it was a smart remark… guess not.

BTW you can call me Robby if you want :o)

Wow Safety is a big issue – nice all the comments.

I guess it worries us all – i got a top-pi machine. (=enormous router) And i m always am very careful – not to say a bit scared – when we use it.
I didn’t mind at all to spend an extra 800 $ on a good trolley system. just to keep my fingers as far away as possible. Let hope nothing happens with anyone of us hÃ©

Kind regards,

Robby

By: thewoodwhisperer

thewoodwhisperer — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:47:16 +0000

Hey Robarov. All of my drills come with two batteries. So one is always in the drill and the other is in the charger.