Craig Meaney
01-19-2020, 6:25 PM
Hi all - longtime reader, first time poster.
I’m finishing up my Moravian bench and wanted to hear your thoughts on where to place dog holes near middle/far edge of my bench. The bench top is 13.5” wide (with a tool tray against the inside edge) and already has a row of holes 4” on center near the front edge of the bench, in line with the wagon vise. My questions are:
Should the “inner” dog holes be offset from the ones near the edge? If so, what is the advantage of this?
I have a 9” Veritas planing stop that I need to drill two parallel holes for. Should I space these as far apart as the stop allows (the posts are movable), or should I try to keep the inner hole more central and drill the others in line with it?
For reference, Will Myers (who repopularized this design) only drills one inner dog hole about 8” in from the edge of the benchtop near the leg vise: https://eclecticmechanicals.files.wordpress.com/2018/11/img_7777-2.jpg?w=1472 His appears slightly offset.
Here is a photo of my bench for visual reference. The planing stop only has one post on, I haven’t yet drilled a hole for the inner one. I also left some space between the final hole and the ones before it as I plan to install a toothed planing stop from Benchcrafted as well.
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Thank you in advance!
I’m finishing up my Moravian bench and wanted to hear your thoughts on where to place dog holes near middle/far edge of my bench. The bench top is 13.5” wide (with a tool tray against the inside edge) and already has a row of holes 4” on center near the front edge of the bench, in line with the wagon vise. My questions are:
Should the “inner” dog holes be offset from the ones near the edge? If so, what is the advantage of this?
I have a 9” Veritas planing stop that I need to drill two parallel holes for. Should I space these as far apart as the stop allows (the posts are movable), or should I try to keep the inner hole more central and drill the others in line with it?
For reference, Will Myers (who repopularized this design) only drills one inner dog hole about 8” in from the edge of the benchtop near the leg vise: https://eclecticmechanicals.files.wordpress.com/2018/11/img_7777-2.jpg?w=1472 His appears slightly offset.
Here is a photo of my bench for visual reference. The planing stop only has one post on, I haven’t yet drilled a hole for the inner one. I also left some space between the final hole and the ones before it as I plan to install a toothed planing stop from Benchcrafted as well.
424083
Thank you in advance!