The traditional way to increase the work holding capability is to place dog holes in your bench top and allowing them to work in tandem with a face or end vise to secure parts of any size.
How to make workbench dog holes. Where do i put my dog holes. Also discussed is selecting the right type of drill bit. That depends is usually the answer i give and that probably frustrates more than it helps. Once both angled openings were made i used the drill to bore out a rough trough between the angled openings.
Then position the drilling guide s alignment marks with those on the bench. Learn how to easily make affordable wooden bench dogs and a simple quick accurate way to bore bench dog holes and holdfast holes. Starting with the drill perpendicular to the bench dog an opening was made and then the drill was slowly rotated to create a sharp angle towards the end of the blank. To make a lot of consistently sized bench dog holes i setup a plunge router with an adjustable fence.
Mark the row of dogholes on your bench aligning the mark with the dog on your bench s vise. Or at a consistent off angle typically between 2 3. The guide to dog hole placement. So seeing as i just built a new workbench myself and had to ask myself this question i thought it was time to come up with something more definitive.
How to make a jig to aid in accurately drilling repeatable workbench dog holes in a benchtop for tools like holdfasts and wonder pups. The fence allows me to add the bench dog holes at a perfectly consistent distance from the edge of the workbench. In order to work best these holes need to be drilled vertically. Links mentioned in the video.
Draw a crosshatch to locate the first hole.