I just recently discovered this tool, and thought it would be handy for some of the gate-building I’ve been wanting to get into. But check out the price! Is it just me, or is this thing way over-priced for what it does? (click the picture)
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I think it must come with a beautiful sexy 22 year old guy or girl (your choice), to "assist" you for the next 5 jobs to do whatever you want with the tool.
Hence the name....Bore Buster.
So THAT'S how Goldfinger is smuggling gold now that they figured out the gold car part scam -- disguising it a tools!
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Mike Hennessy
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Here's one on Michigan CL for $250:
http://grandrapids.craigslist.org/tls/1290262890.html
Huck;
I needed to drill holes in sharply angled timbers, what I did is use a three step drill bit. the first step was a pilot hole, the second step was for the threads and the third step was a counter bore to make the hole large and smooth.
I forget exactly what they cost but it wasn't nearly $1,000
Geeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeez!
I wonder if it's one of those "we're-the-only-place-you-can-get-this-VERY-special-tool-from-so-we-can-charge-whatever-the-heck-we-want-to-for-it-and-you-will-still-buy-it-because-you-need-it-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA!!!!" things.
I used to work in a 4 star hotel. The bell carts (ya know, the things you put your luggage on with the fancy gold ball at the top?) could cost up to $8,000. For one.
My supervisor told me it was...well...what I mentioned above.
I wonder if it's larrybobcat that is selling those?
Edited 8/14/2009 8:15 pm ET by rez
larrybobcat? is that the shamPOW guy?
That thing's been around a lot longer than Larry... and, instead of standing around talking about stair rails, it let's you knock them out... an enabler<G>http://www.tvwsolar.com
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went to a show once and this guy in the LJ Smith booth had one of those that he just had to demonstrate for my brother and I, some how that thing bound up on him and twisted his fingers all up. drawing blood and all, you know how that goes we busted up laughing. he tried to bandage them and continue but they began to hurt too bad so he had to leave. I'll never forget that tool. :)
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LM made it to market....
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"dejavue..LM made it to market...."Only in his most demented of dreams! LOL! Ampu-miter or whatever it was called.LJ Smith sure has the b!tchin' purpose-built tools/jigs, though.View Image
its a tool well worth the tag if you do alot of hand rails. i borrow one from the local stair shop when i need one (thank god cause i dont have grand).
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Can you borrow it long enough to make your own ?....You are always welcome at Quittintime
its really not that much of a too. It "could" be field made. a line lvl, a 2x4 with the handrail pitch cut on one end and a guide hole for the drill bit to follow.
nothing special, just an adjustable version of a 2x4 block =P Woods favorite carpenter
I can't bring up a description of that device. Looks like a simple angle bore guide. I have made and thrown away a dozen of them on various jobs from simple jobsite scrap.
The photo makes it look like it works maybe with a level built in so you could do varying angles on a crown top railing and staircase which would be a rare case, but for normal stairs, I can't see investing that kind of money.
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The Chinese will have one for $59.95 someday.Now if billy Mays could have gotten the marketing for this..but wait there's more...
untill he threw in the plumb finder, railbolt tools, and an entire set of ballusters for that price.That site does have an almost useable neat layout tool online though.
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but wait, there's more...
for only $500 more, you can get the accessory kit too!
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As cool as these tools are, I'm likely never gonna have the work to justify the investment.Kinda like the PC lock mortiser. Way cool machine, but if I need that kind of work done, I'll be calling my locksmith. Now, if I had to do many hundreds of 'em.................View Image
if I need that kind of work done, I'll be calling my locksmith
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Mine's a simple handscrew clamp with Vee notches in the jaws. I clmap a pc. of pipe in the jaws as a drill guide bushing and clamp the clamp to the rail.
Can't get much simpler.Spheramid Enterprises Architectural Woodworks
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How bout some pics?http://www.tvwsolar.com
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He'll drink his baby brew
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Lemme dig out the parts, the pipe guide lives in my RA Drill box, and the clamp is hiding in the shop somewhere..But any 3/4" I.D. pipe about 4" long works. I use a Silver and Demming type bit or a toothed forstner type ( longer shank) and for anysize under 3/4", I cut donuts out of Teflon or UHMW plastic and slide them on the drill shank ( for say 1/2" holes).
The handscrew is a basic Jorgensen , being as most stairs I build I shoot for nor more than 38 degree incline, I can adjust the pipe/clamp to dial in a bit either way,and for tapered spindle tops, you can get by with some wiggle room. So just cut vee grooves in the wood jaws at about that angle.
A second hand screw holds the first to the rail, and my vee groove layout lines are on the clamp sides to see where the bit will hit the rail.
I can round up the parts today I think. Been cleaning up the shop and making shelves, can actually find stuff now.Spheramid Enterprises Architectural Woodworks
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I can't find the other notched clamp, I think it's in the van.
But here is the 90 degree clamp and the pipe guide and bits I use most. See the scratches on the outide of the pipe? I drive a piffen screw in the clamp jaw to keep the pipe held from spinning when the frass needs to be backed out of the drill hole.
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You could drill a sideways hole in the pipe and tap it, then set any angle you want, just don't let the set screws interfere.
Pretty simple jig and works great.
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Edited 8/24/2009 10:25 am ET by Sphere
Edited 8/24/2009 10:27 am ET by Sphere
Here's a dense question- do you just set the pipe to the angle you want and then rely on the jaws of the clamp to keep it at that angle?
Jon Blakemore RappahannockINC.com Fredericksburg, VA
No, I have another clamp somewhere in the vans guts that have the vee groove at 38 degrees from square to the body of the clamp. Or 52 , whichever it is to drill a plumb hole on a sloped rail. Like I said, I try to shoot for that incline on stairs I build, within a few degrees either way..depending on rise/run and FF to FF calcs.
Just makes a nice walkable stair IMHO.
Notching anew clamp for an odd angle is cheap and fast, and still useable if ya have to. And I found that tapered spindles can absorb a little angular deviation in the top hole.Spheramid Enterprises Architectural Woodworks
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Thanks for the remedial class.
Jon Blakemore RappahannockINC.com Fredericksburg, VA
I'm sure it's simpler than it looks and sounds<G> I rarely have done any balusters that matched any existing drill bit, and a slight side angle seems to lock them in better than a dead straight hole... but, I do have a buddy who loans me his bore buster<G>http://www.tvwsolar.com
We'll have a kid
Or maybe we'll rent one
He's got to be straight
We don't want a bent one
He'll drink his baby brew
From a big brass cup
Someday he may be president
If things loosen up
One stair I did had 1.5" square oak balusters, I used the same jig to drill the ends for 3/4" dowels as tennons. And another log stair I had made tennons on a "Tennonizer" on a table saw, those you can make out of branches and any tennon size over about 5/8".
Drilled an Ipe 2x2 rail set once and killed a few bits, endgrain boring is not boring..LOL.
Like I said you can bush or packout the drill shanks of smaller drill bits to use the same size 3/4" pipe, or I'm sure you could use a smaller dia. pipe or factory made drill guide bushing.
All roads lead to Rome and all that.Spheramid Enterprises Architectural Woodworks
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"If Brains was lard, you couldn't grease much of a pan"Jed Clampitt
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Here's the Bore Buster for $567
Jon Blakemore
RappahannockINC.com Fredericksburg, VA
if that decimal point were just one more notch to the left...View Image bakersfieldremodel.com
It does look xpensive but it preforms a unique function. this from the same site seems even more out of line http://www.stairservice.com/osc/lj3049-drill-pack-p-1533.html?mid=20?osCsid
Craig
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