Susan arrives a bit early from work, looks at my pitiful efforts and says "looks like you bit off more than you could chew."
Wait just a minute! What makes me think I have to eat the whole thing in one bite? Down to the basement, another piece of scrap cherry, and this time I only bore a half inch into the rim, then part off at a 1/4" thick. Twelve evenly spaced spoke holes. Part down to the hub and put the jig back on the rest - twelve evenly spaced holes.
SHEESH! Scene of Polack shrugging his shoulders in incomprehension, followed by the heel of his hand to his forehead as he comprehends.
Thus the old question - " why do Polacks have round shoulders and flat foreheads?" is answered once again....
BTW, the 3000 has some pretty sloppy indexing holes compared to Ol' Blue. Any fix?