Planing Stop (and Doe’s Foot)
Make
your own planing stop. This took about 30 minutes to make and install
...
It
looks like an ordinary dog hole. 1" wide in O1 steel. Filed 8
ppi. Sharp like a saw.
The
brass screws have been replaced by stainless steel M6 bolts into
threaded inserts ...
This
is the spring-loaded bench dog. It will remain at any height it is
set. Note that all my bench dogs are exactly the same, and this one
can be used in place of any other ...
How
the stop looks to the wood
Used
with a Doe's Foot (the subject of a number of posts by Chris Schwarz
and Richard Maguire – just Google them for more details). This is
simply a wooden board with a 90 degree angle section cut out
...
Once
clamped to the bench top with a hold down, the board is held rigidly.
Quite impossible to push across the bench.
..
or tail vise ...
The
extra grip over a bench dog is amazing! It grips so well that it is
just as stable off centre ...
The
combination of the metal stop and Doe's Foot in stabilising a board
is just so profound (!) that it is my first choice now when planing
diagonally across a board (such as when using a jack plane to take
off highs). Obviously, do not use this metal stop if you feel you may
hit it with a plane.
The teeth are small and sharp enough not
to do any damage to the end grain of boards being planed. I would not
use it with planed edge grain. It would damage that.
Luckily,
I made all my dogs the exact same size and interchangeable. This will
enable me to use the metal dog anywhere along the side of the
bench.
Part of this thread was intended to emphasise just how
amazing the Doe's Foot is as an end vise substitute - for those of
you without an end vise.
Regards
from Perth
Derek
February 2018