The Drill Press Finally Got Smart, and It’s Just the Beginning
Image Credit: Harvey Industries Image used with permission by copyright holder For roughly a century, the drill press was the most stubbornly unchanged tool in the workshop. Even the table saw picked up intelligent blade-detection technology. The drill press, meanwhile, remained a cast-iron column with a chuck on top, the same basic machine it had been in 1925.
- ▪Image Credit: Harvey Industries Image used with permission by copyright holder For roughly a century, the drill press was the most stubbornly unchanged tool in the workshop.
- ▪Even the table saw picked up intelligent blade-detection technology.
- ▪The drill press, meanwhile, remained a cast-iron column with a chuck on top, the same basic machine it had been in 1925.
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| Publication time | Fri, 24 Jul 2026 01:55:11 +0000 |
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Image Credit: Harvey Industries Image used with permission by copyright holder For roughly a century, the drill press was the most stubbornly unchanged tool in the workshop. CNC routers went digital. Laser cutters got software brains. Even the table saw picked up intelligent blade-detection technology. The drill press, meanwhile, remained a cast-iron column with a chuck on top, the same basic machine it had been in 1925. That’s starting to change, and the shift is happening faster than most woodworkers expected. A Longer Time Coming The broader power-tool industry has been absorbing smarter technology for years, mostly at the motor and interface level. Variable-speed drives, digital readouts, preset memory, and automatic depth stops arrived in stages.
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