I've used tape like so many do.  Mostly I'll do this for those holes that are not terribly sensitive to a little over shooting of the depth - coz the bloody  tape moves after several holes.  I've also drilled out little round aluminum  slugs and tapped 'em for  grub screws which is a pretty good  way to make a depth stop, but  labor intense way to go.

But most often when I have a real hard limit to the depth of the hole or I'm drilling a slew of  holes and want something rigid I do this:

Neat idea, Thanks!!

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Lew Kauffman-
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Great tip Cliff!

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Ron Dudelston
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Thats really cool! I would have never thought of something like that. Guaranteed depth everytime. So did you use the drill press to make the hole and then bandsaw it to size?

Yah  the DP and my square  angle block then I cut it on the TS to an approximation of the right length and the final tweaking is done by inserting more or less of the  drill shank into the chuck.