Storage Drill Team

Here’s a handy shop project with a dual personality: It functions as both a drill press storage cabinet and an adjustable outfeed roller stand.

Even in a shop as small as a one-car garage, it’s always wise to keep a tool’s accessories as near the workstation as possible. Walking from my floor-model drill press to the back wall of the garage for drill bits quickly became tedious, so with storage space at a premium, I came up with this design for a rolling storage cabinet that would stow neatly beneath my drill press table.

The cabinet evolved out of two needs: the size and number of items I wanted to store, and the ever-present woodworker’s mantra, “How can I make it do more?” That question resulted in a project that does double duty as drill bit storage and as an adjustable infeed/outfeed support for all my machinery and workbench surfaces.