Drilling Dog Holes the Right Way by OTB Thinker
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- OTB Thinker, If you want to drill those bench dog holes straight and true, you need to pay attention. Bonus subject, why use set screws for bench dogs, well I'll show you that also.
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Just finished my bench and was worried about getting somewhat straight, square and plumb dog holes. Your tip solved my problem and the holes turned out fine. Many thanks for the great tip!
Glad to help Scott. thanks
Thank you Russ, just what I wanted to know, and thank you for responding so quickly. I think it is somewhat ingenious this method, and when my workshop warms up a bit I'm sure to have a go. As I said in the previous video comments, I have finished my two workbenches and needed to know a sure fire way of drilling accurate and square dog holes. Thanks.
Well, Russ, that is a great method and it obviously works for you. Thanks for sharing.
this method is a little strange, but I have had to use it before when drilling with paddle bits. Basically, I was asked by someone to talk about drilling bench dog holes without a drill press. they were saying they tried with a Forstner bit but (of course) that was slow and difficult. I suggested using a paddle bit to drill which brought me to this video. I get a lot of unusual what if questions :>)
Thanks Russ! I appreciate you taking the time to explain this. I was planning on using a plunge router to create my dog holes but think this way will work nicely and save me from having to track down a 3/4' up spiral plunge router bit. I'll check out some of your other videos now.
thanks Brian. I have never had good results drilling with the router, and a 3/4" router bit would be quite expensive (I'm cheap :>). I hope you find some of my other videos useful. They do include a wide variety of subjects and ideas, most of which you will find unique and practical (& cheap). all comments and likes (good & bad) are welcomed here.
Great video as usual Russ. I picked up a little drill press that uses a portable drill. Mounted the drill, rotated it so it was 180 degrees away from the table and now use it when I need perfectly true holes. I think it was in one of those $1.00 box lots at an auction.
Not sure why I haven't bought one of those. I did a video earlier this year mounting a bubble on the end of my drill so I can drill any angle I want now. I will still buy a drill press attachment if I find a deal (like you did ) if it pops up. Thanks flick.
Thanks for the tip, I'm ready to drill some holes in my new bench, I will try this
Hey Russ: I like the idea w/the set screws for the dogs,here is a tip, I have been told it is possible to use metal set screws by using heli-coil inserts, the trick is after you drill the hole for the heli-coil tap you treat the wood to a generous application of super glue, when it sets run in the special heli-coil tap,then install the heli-coil insert then you will be all set to use set screws w/ a machine screw thread.
those are metal set screws. I just tap and use wood threads. I drill 1/64" less than recommended and that makes the threads tighter. I don't use them often and have never had wood threads fail yet and it is a lot easier than installing heli-coils. thanks gardener.
Excellent video. The point about the set screws was very useful.
thanks Dave. I find them useful a lot.
Great idea and different than I have seen posted before... Thank you !!
I like to think outside the box :>) Thanks for watching Tom.
Thanks for this video. I've never seen this idea before.
OK, I'm going to quit commenting, as I keep finding the answer to my own questions in the next video of yours I click. One last thing, it's great to see someone willing to show off the green tools, as opposed to all the pretend haters, claiming featool, Bosch, and a few others are the "only" way to go? Honesty and integrity are rarely found qualities with all the heavy editing in most of today's videos. I appreciate your humbleness.
6:45 please elaborate on this clamping setup :) Looks about 3/4 all thread rods threaded into female inserts with a cross member as the vice face and then two custom carved (walnut?) fixers again with 3/4" female inserts? Thanks for the video.
Thanks for the interest, Roy. Sorry I took so long to respond (usually the same day), but I had to go thru my older videos to find the one about this clamping system. A link to that video is below. If you need more info, I can do an update video on it.
link:
th-cam.com/video/xeQO3MGgu0o/w-d-xo.html
@@russveinot5754 thank you.
Far outside the box, loved the video...earned a sub
Double Thanks Speed :>) I hope you find some of my other videos informative. All comments and likes are appreciated.
Hey Russ: Great Video,been watching a few of your other videos and I've got to ask you what is that sound I hear,kinda sounds like a fog horn. I haven't seen your videos for a couple of month's but now I am subscribed !!!!
I joke about that noise now and then. It's my overhead furnace. It makes that sound every time it first starts the fire until the fan kicks on. it seem to do it while the heat exchanges is heating up. Been doing it for over ten years (since before I moved in) and sounds the same the whole time. No idea what causes it. It is in most videos made in the winter months :>)
Oh, also, welcome back to my shop :>)
Howdy Russ, I hope you don't mind my lengthy question here. I hope this is something you can address in one of your upcoming videos. (first let me define: Designed = on paper, built = I did it already.)
I am designing a workbench/assembly table that has to be kept and used outside in the weather and not under any cover. The base will be a cabinet on wheels, yet to be designed, and will be weather proofed by painting with exterior grade house paint. I am hoping to finish the top with clear finish that weather proofs the top.
I am currently designing the top which will be 32 by 60 inches and it will have dog holes all over. Dogs and wedges or spacers will be used to square up and clamp my work pieces. I would like to hear your opinion on these sizes. You said your holes are 4 inches on center. I am thinking of about 2 to 3 inches OC, but I am convinced I'll wish they were 12 inches OC by the time I finish drilling the first row of holes.
Before seeing this video, I designed a pattern or template with 4 holes perfectly square to be used with a Forstner bit. After drilling two holes in the table, I would be able to peg down two holes in the pattern and drill two more holes in any direction and every hole on the table would be square to the others. After seeing this video, I have decided to modify your jig so it can work like my Forstner template. I will also be using your set screw locking system. your suggestions here are most welcome. .
Because of the dog holes, I will have to suspend the top above the cabinet top, otherwise, the rain and saw dust will fill the holes.
The more I think about this top, the more I am thinking I'll have to make it detachable and bring it inside whenever I am not actually using it.
My situation is that I have to work outside on the patio. I don't have enough room in my storage shed to keep the table and the power tools. So, my table saw, miter saw and drill press will be mounted on small tables I can roll out and set up on the patio. I'll roll the work bench to the same area where I can have all my tools and supplies together. Instead of putting down the tolls I use, they can go into their drawer in the cabinet under one of the power tools tables. Since it will be left outside, wood that fits can be stored in the cabinet under the assembly table.
Clean up will be quick and easy as I just have to roll three cabinets back into the shed, roll the table to its corner, and sweep up sawdust that is left in an open, clear area of the patio. Clean up should take about 5 minutes instead of the 30 minutes or more it takes me now.
Your mission, Jim, should you choose to accept, is to create a video that explains how to use your jig, or some variation of it, to make holes perfectly square to each other across the entire work top, to suggest material and spacing for the top and dog holes, and to suggest how to either water-proof the top or make it detachable so I can protect it from the weather.
On another note:
This weekend I discovered Sorensen's Lego mobile tool cabinets (th-cam.com/video/7bC9Xv6yH7k/w-d-xo.html). Since then, I have been designing my shop around this model so I have cabinets for my table saw, miter saw and drill press. But today, when I looked over my plans, I see that they are completely dominated by tools, designs and techniques from just your and Sorensen's videos, with a little of my own creative thinking hiding in the details. Three weeks ago, I didn't know you or Sorensen existed, yet my shop is only possible because of you two.
I know Eric . . . we started our channels within days of each other. Also, he does a lot of good ideas for the shop. give me a short time (24 hrs?) to digest this concept. there is a lot to unpack. I am definitely interested in your project. thanks
Wouldn't it be easier to use a drill press and a one-inch twist drill bit to make a hole in a piece of 2 X 4, so that the hole would be perpendicular to the base of the 2X4? Then use a hand held power drill, the twist drill bit and the 2 X 4 to make holes in your workbench? Just a thought.
yep, except . . . most of us don't have a 1" (or 3/4") twist bit. sorry to take too long to answer. Was out of town.
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