Hi. I'm looking for a little advice on attaching the 'dog hole strip' on a workbench build. Its a strip of square dog holes going onto a 4 inch thick top.
The two questions are:
1) should it be glued to the top over-sized (in terms of thickness) and then hand planed down to match? From my experience, it is near impossible to keep an 8' long board exactly flush to the other board(s) its being laminated to, even with cauls, buicuts, dominoes, dowels, etc. I am installing a benchcrafted tail vise and their instructions seem to have the top all milled to final thickness, then cut the waste away for the vise slot, then glue the dog hole strip and front laminate on. This implies that I cannot attach the dog hole strip prior to final milling of the bench top (it will be going over a jointer and through a planer). It seems also to imply that the strip and laminate be of final thickness when glued. I'm worried if they don't glue on perfect any low spot will require tremendous hand planing on the rest of the top.
2) How to manage squeeze out when attaching the backer (or to bench if not using backer). I have yet to manage glue application enough to avoid squeeze out (plus if there is no squeeze out, then i take it to mean there is not enough glue and the joint is starved). So any tips on clean-up considering the squeeze out will be inside the square holes (4" deep holes too, so not super easy to get into). My best guess would be to get a long Q-tip or similar and use a little water to clean the holes while the glue is still wet. Seems a bit tedious but I can't think of a better way.
Thanks for any tips,
Tyler
The two questions are:
1) should it be glued to the top over-sized (in terms of thickness) and then hand planed down to match? From my experience, it is near impossible to keep an 8' long board exactly flush to the other board(s) its being laminated to, even with cauls, buicuts, dominoes, dowels, etc. I am installing a benchcrafted tail vise and their instructions seem to have the top all milled to final thickness, then cut the waste away for the vise slot, then glue the dog hole strip and front laminate on. This implies that I cannot attach the dog hole strip prior to final milling of the bench top (it will be going over a jointer and through a planer). It seems also to imply that the strip and laminate be of final thickness when glued. I'm worried if they don't glue on perfect any low spot will require tremendous hand planing on the rest of the top.
2) How to manage squeeze out when attaching the backer (or to bench if not using backer). I have yet to manage glue application enough to avoid squeeze out (plus if there is no squeeze out, then i take it to mean there is not enough glue and the joint is starved). So any tips on clean-up considering the squeeze out will be inside the square holes (4" deep holes too, so not super easy to get into). My best guess would be to get a long Q-tip or similar and use a little water to clean the holes while the glue is still wet. Seems a bit tedious but I can't think of a better way.
Thanks for any tips,
Tyler
Dog hole strip attachment
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