Cheers Bill.
My 1/3 horse power Meddings pillar drill just hadn't got the power to drill 2" mortises in end grain Sapele, so yesterday evening before the curry Jon drilled out the mortises on his Wadkin borer, I'd taken over a 2" colt saw tooth bit but really didn't expect this :-
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What an awesome machine, knife through butter comes to mind, I definitely want one of those
So here's the finished finial dry fitted together.
I'm pleased with how it turned out but more importantly so is Jon