Workbench Dog Holes Spacing

I ve found plenty of pictures but no dimensions.

Workbench dog holes spacing. Making bench dog holes holdfast holes in your workbench top. So i present my foolproof secret to. That depends is usually the answer i give and that probably frustrates more than it helps. But a board larger than that must be secured between the vise dog and a bench dog.

The bench dog pattern is one issue another is the angle of the hole to drill. Click the register link above to proceed. Work bench dog hole spacing if this is your first visit be sure to check out the faq by clicking the link above. If you ll be working mostly on narrow boards a single row of holes may be all you need.

Episode 3 drilling workbench dog holes using a simple alignment indexing jig. In this episode i demonstrate a simple index drilling jig for aligning dog holes. I have a pretty quick and easy method so let s get started. Now i ll move onto making bench dog holes and holdfast holes.

In the shop with tom grissom ph d. 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. William babbitt may 3rd 2020. Another says to drill 2 to 3 degrees off vertical.

To prevent tearout on the backside clamp or screw a scrap of 2x4 underneath your dog hole line. 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. The holes in the veritas carver s bench look like they re spaced on a 4 grid but that s a specialty bench that s meant to hold relatively small workpieces of various shapes and from several directions. One school promotes a true vertical angle 90 degrees from the benchtop.

Where do i put my dog holes. I spaced mine 4 apart as that s basically the travel of my end vise. Even if you can t take the drill press to the workbench jonathan you can take its accuracy by creating a drilling guide for your handheld drill. From the scale of the pictures it sort of looks like the first line of holes is spaced about 3 4 in from the edge and then a second row another 6 8 beyond that with a between hole spacing of about 6.

The guide to dog hole placement. Crosscut it to the width of the bench in which you d like to drill the holes. To make a lot of consistently sized bench dog holes i setup a plunge router with an adjustable fence. 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.