Welcome Eric, I too am rather new. I like the hardwood bench dogs. Easy
to make, cheap, work well, and easily replaced, cheap. I think I've got
my point across.

-Jay Who's going to wait on the flea market journey (too cold for good
stuff to show?!)and start concentrating on the antique shops (a little
more scary).

-----Original Message----- From: Mark van Roojen [mailto:msv@u...] Sent:
Wednesday, March 13, 2002 03:01 PM To: ecooper@c...;
OLDTOOLS@www3.law.cornell.edu Subject: Re: New Bio & Bench Dogs

At 08:07 PM 3/12/02, Eric T. Cooper wrote:
>I do have one question: What size do most people make their bench dog
>slots? Just by eye-balling it seems to me that a rectangular shape
>would work best and I have laid out 1" wide (side to side) by 3/4" deep
>(front to back). Any problems?

Welcome Eric! My advice is to buy the dogs and size to fit. When I made
my bench I thought they were 3/4 inch or thereabouts. When I scored some
at a couple of flea markets I found I was wrong. Using my Dad's milling
machine to Mill them down to fit the slots was a lot of work. Better to
do it with dogs in hand.

best,

Mark

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