The strip of metal used for the spring of the dogs can be any thin piece of steel. Those with a keen eye may have seen thin bits of steel along the street, left over from the metal brooms the street sweepers use. These are perfect for our application. The dowels will need to be cut down to size to make useful bench dogs. I sunk the dowel completely into one of the workbench openings, then used a pencil to mark where the top surface of the workbench was on the dowel.
This mark will be my baseline that I offset the actual height of the bench dogs from. Clamping the work securely I cut the dowel at this new mark. Then, I used this bench dog as a template to scribe and cut the remaining dowel in equal lengths.
The dowel ends are likely to have burrs from cutting. Smooth the rough edges with a coarse grit sandpaper, then switch over to a fine grit sandpaper and make the edges smooth and even.
Next, we'll need to drill into the side of the cut dowels to insert the thin steel to act as a spring. Using the width of the thin steel as a guide, I found a drill bit that was the same diameter and loaded it up into the drill.
I used a straight edge parallel to the side of the dog blank to make sure the marks lined up. Starting with the drill perpendicular to the bench dog, an opening was made and then the drill was slowly rotated to create a sharp angle towards the end of the blank. Once both angled openings were made I used the drill to bore out a rough trough between the angled openings.
After, the troughs were cleaned up with a sharp knife and sandpaper. Insert one end of the thing steel into one of the bench dog openings and gently bend it until it goes over the other opening on the same dog. Approximate where the steel will end inside the covered opening and mark with a pencil. Since this steel is going to be bent to act as a spring, allow a little extra in your measurement.
After marking cut the steel to length. Since it's so thin I used a rotary tool with a cutting wheel, which made quick work of cutting the steel to the right size.
Using pliers I was able to bend each section of thin steel into an arc, which will be our spring set inside the drilled openings of the bench dogs. It's okay if the bend isn't perfect, the final bend shape will happen after it's installed.
The important part is that there is a bend in the metal. Place one end of the bent steel into a drilled opening of the bench dog with the arc zenith facing away from the dog, then use pliers to bend the steel and force the other end into the other drilled opening. Once inserted the spring should fit snugly. If you tried to put the bench dogs inside the openings in your workbench you'd probably find the spring prevents them from being fully inserted.
That's because we need to seat the springs into the bench dog before we can use them. A few blows from a hammer onto the spring will seat it inside the bench dog, allowing only a small arc protrusion of the spring, You can refine this further by either a few more blows of the hammer, or inserting a screwdriver underneath the spring to pull it back out a little more.
Your dogs are finished! These inexpensive dogs are easy and relatively quick to make, so don't worry if they get banged up or lost. I keep a few scattered around so I always have them on hand when they're needed. You could make a few different types of dogs for specific projects, like longer dogs for larger boards, or dogs with soft fabric tops so they won't scratch the surface of things resting on them. No matter the use, bench dogs are a great accessory for your workbench.
Tip 4 months ago. Make different lengths, and squared-off dogs. All are useful, it's just finding when to use what. Great idea now the twist raid the kids toy box for those square wooden block drill a hole into them and push dogs into them. You could also trim the base of the block to say 6mm making a step on one side 8mm on other 10mm mm on other and 12mm on last side.
You can also find those metal strips in car wiper blades. You can save the metal strips when changing out your wiper blades. Never know what you might need them for! Reply 5 years ago. Rather than roam around looking for a castoff metal "bristle" from a street sweeping machine if we have them in our neighborhood , I have been keeping the stainless steel inserts from old windshield windscreen?
Good size for several things, can be cut, don't rust, bendable, I've made bench "fence stops" by assembling two dowels spaced the same as the dog holes in my bench top in a 1x2 oak bar about 12 inches long. You just drop these into the bench holes and you have another set of vise jaws with huge capacity. Need to clamp onto a circular work piece? That's a really neat idea. I made plenty of extra dogs, so I bet I could use a few to make a fence like this, too!
As the Brits say, I've been bodging up tools for years, and I'm not afraid to appropriate the good ideas of others Not having bags of money laying around but needing to get things done is a necessity that mothers many inventions. I like the special extinct guest, prominently featured in step 8.
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