Bench Dog Layout

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Bench dog layout. Once both angled openings were made i used the drill to bore out a rough trough between the angled openings. Not absolutely necessary but its helpful to have a drill guide and or jig to maintain a straight perpendicular hole to the bench top surface. Bench dogs let you take advantage of the cnc grid of 20mm holes on the festool mft 3 table as well as aftermarket multifunction tops or slabs.
A drill with drill bits to match the bench dogs and or holdfasts you will be using in your bench. The innovative prairie dog from veritas shown below below has a coiled spring at its base allowing you to pop it up 5x16 high or down flush with the surrounding surface by alternately pressing down on its top kevin installed a pair in his vise s adjustable jaw where typical dogs would not work. Layout tools i used a variety of squares and tape measures as well as a fine mechanical pencil.
Was just wondering if anyone could tell me the best spacing or layout for bench dog holes. Bench dog universal fence clamps rockler woodworking and. To get the spring to stay in to bench dog the openings need to be angled.
Get them as close to the edge of the bench if you can and then have a line to correspond with your vise. But a board larger than that must be secured between the vise dog and a bench dog. For example if the vise s jaws can hold a board up to 6 1 2 secure any board up to that size between the jaws.
Ideally space the dog holes so you can secure a board of any width to the workbench ken so start by measuring your vise s capacity. If your front vise hardware is centered you might want to offset the hole in your chop so the dog holes aren t immediately over the vise bar. Bench dog hole spacing.
How do you go about choosing the location layout pattern and number of bench dog holes to cut when building a workbench. This thread is archived. Woodworking garage layout.