Just piddling around on a dreary evening so i thought i would work on a templatejig for drilling dog holes in a work bench. I have all the parts and pieces.
Drilling Workbench Dog Holes With Router Template Youtube
Heres how it works.
Bench dog hole template. If your top is much deeper than 2 inchs this becomes the problem. Posted on april 8 2015 by jonathan. This bit and bushing set eliminates the biggest problems with drilling bench dog holes in a workbench top.
This entry was posted in the grizz ubo bench and tagged dog holes douglas fir vise workbench. Imperfectly sized or misaligned holes. Popular woodworking magazine managing editor glen d.
Episode 3 drilling workbench dog holes using a simple alignment indexing jig. In the shop with tom grissom phd. My bench top is 3 inches thick so to solve this i finished off the rest of the hole with a 34 forstner bit.
Determine what the measurement will be between bench dog holes then drill a second hole in the jig equal to this distance. Huey shows you how to make perfect evenly spaced dog holes in your workbench top using a router. In this episode i demonstrate a simple index drilling jig for aligning dog holes.
The only problem i had with plunging my bench dog holes with this method is not having enough length on the bit to go all the way through the top. Secure the jig to work bench and carefully drill hole. I had planed to use a collar and a template similar to a shelf pin hole drilling jig just on a much larger scale.
It is designed for a top that is 36 inches wide with 34 inch holes every 4 inches. Work bench dog hole template. Add tip ask question comment download.
It just slides in and doesnt move. Then i used this bench dog as a template to scribe and cut the remaining dowel in equal lengths. I cut the 34 to fit in the hole and i cut the 1 top 1 height then pre drilled and screwed it into the top of the 34th piece.
Since you are using the same forstner bit in all drilling operations a secure fit of the bit in the jig is guaranteed. Dog hole template my plan to drill the dog holes in my work bench is to use a plunge router with the 34 diameter 12shank spiral bit fitted with a 1od guide bushing to keep the router centered on the template made from perf board. You make a simple jig like the one shown at left and using a drill press bore a 1 hole the same distance from the fence that you want your dog holes from the edge of the bench.
My dog hole days are over.
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