I'm currently in the middle of making a new top for my workbench and was wondering, how close to the front edge are your bench dog holes?
Been googling around and there doesn't appear to be any rule of thumb. Read somewhere its good to have them close (say 1½ - 2") so one can use a fenced plane, but in many photos the holes appear to be ~ 4", some even more. Currently mine are ~ 3¼" and I haven't encountered many problems, but I'm also not using many fenced places... yet... hope too in the future. Others have stated it's good to have the dogs approximately centered on a 8" wide board that you might be aggressively planing.
Thoughts?