Mine didn’t go so well. Not horrendously bad, just not the exact straight, evenly space row I was hoping for.
I made the jig out of my square aluminium tubing and tried to get a decent vertical jig using my drill press. Seemed to go smoothly.
That done and checked, I screwed my template bridge onto the body. I only used 2 screws as it has to come off for final sanding and painting.
All the holes lined up perfectly.
Following that you tube video, I then did really shallow holes through the template, so I had the drill holes centralised and started enough to use the jig to do a vertical drill. It’s hard to see but in the photo above, I have drilled through the template, into the body by about 3 or 4mm...
I then drilled each hole as far as the jig would let me. 20mm deep jig, 40 mm body, so halfway or more.
I took the template off and (lining up with the already halfway drilled holes at either end) drilled the two outer holes through.
That looked like this from the back
The idea being that I then place the template over some pins to make sure I was aligned, drill small stater holes (a few mm), then drill through from the back with the jig.
That is when the problems started.
When I drilled using the jig, some of the holes didn’t seem to quite join and they didn’t quite seem to line up either.
Looking at the bottoms hole of my jig, it seems to have deformed from the straight round hole.
I didn’t notice this in time.
So, I tried to get them to meet up, which they now do and then cover the problem with the bigger holes for the ferrules.
I lined them up as best I could and they are straightish, now but not perfect...continued in next post.
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