dog storage

[Aaron Liebling]

I have a good collection of various dogs and a few holdfasts. I was thinking of sticking the holdfasts in the holes in the front of one of the legs, but what to do with the dogs? There are 8 or so, of various sizes and materials - wood, plastic, and metal. Also a wide planing block that fits two holes at one end.

Do I just stick them all in dogholes out of the way at the back of the bench?

[Jim Becker]

This is how I'm currently handling it...

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[Frank Pratt]

I keep mine in the last row of holes on the bench. They rarely get in the way & it they do, I just move 'em.

[glenn bradley]

Mine are in a drawer at the bench.

[Prashun Patel]

I made a 2x4 wall 'shelf' with 3/4" holes. I have similar shelves for chisels and marking gauges.

[Frederick Skelly]

Mine are in a rack, sorta like Jim's, except mounted to the wall above my bench.

[Clark Hussey]

As I was reading the title Dog Storage with my dogs sitting in front of me. I was wondering why the hell would anyone want to store their dogs.

[Bill Dufour]

As I was reading the title Dog Storage with my dogs sitting in front of me. I was wondering why the hell would anyone want to store their dogs.

A kennel was my first thought on reading the title.
Bill D

[Matt Day]

This is how I'm currently handling it...

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Something is wrong with your bench Jim - it’s way too clean!

[Jim Becker]

Something is wrong with your bench Jim - it’s way too clean!

Trust me....it's not...that photo was taken just as I finished making the new top. :)

[mike stenson]

I have a wooden dog in every dog hole in my bench. They're square dogs, I just push em up or down (they're flush with the top, being wooden makes this trivial). I keep holdfasts in holes in the legs. My planing stop hangs on the wall :) There are all sorts of ways to do it, really just ends up being what works best for you. It's fun hearing how people deal with this though.

[Aaron Liebling]

My bench is 24 inches wide and currently has a full row of dog holes along the front (in line with a dog on my twin tail vise), a more spaced row down the middle (mainly for holdfasts, but also in line with a dog in the tail vise), but not in the rear half of the table. I'll want some eventually, but I wasn't sure where yet, so I'm waiting to drill them until I figure out what feels right. This means, not a ton of extra holes for dog storage on table.

Definitely no "right" way, so great to see the different approaches everyone has taken. Thanks again!

[Jim Dwight]

My "bench" is quit different, Paulk Style, and my dogs are 20mm. But I store them and the clamps for my track saw and that work in the table top in a shall drawer that opens on both sides of the top. The runners are a simple L shaped bracket screwed to the under side of the bottom layer of the top. Works great and is one of my most used drawers.

[Tom Bender]

Jim
Is that Purpleheart and fiddleback Maple?

And what height is your bench most often?

[Jim Becker]

Jim
Is that Purpleheart and fiddleback Maple?

And what height is your bench most often?


Purpleheart and chary (https://sawmillcreek.org/showthread.php?281828-Project-New-Main-Bench-Top-(build)&highlight=Bench) primarily with a couple pieces of "really old" white oak at the vice end. The two heights I use the most are all the way down at low desk height so I can work while seated in a chair for detail work and about 33", or so which is the same height as my CNC table. The latter is convenient as I go back and forth between them in support of CNC work. But I move it up and down depending on what I'm working on at the moment...it only takes a few seconds to do so.

[Rod Sheridan]

Dog storage?

I let Macbeth wander around wherever he wants, normally he stores himself on the patio or in his bed:D

Actually I store my dogs in a plastic bin on the shelf......Rod