Hand Tools Archive

Subject:
I screwed up.

Derek Cohen (in Perth, Australia)
Oh boy.

Do you get those moments when it dawns on you that you made a really stupid mistake?

This is a doozy but it is repairable. I would like your ideas.

Its the bench (what else?). I have just realised that the dog hole strip is in backwards. Backwards! No, don't ask the question.

If the dogs were vertical, I'd just leave them and use them reversed. But the holes are angled at 2 degrees ... the wrong way.

I have two choices as I see it.

The first is that I saw out the dog hole strip (with a circular saw on a fence - it is the only way to keep the cut straight), make a new dog hole strip and insert that. This is my preference although it is more work.

The second choice is to fill in the existing dog holes with a plug (contrasting Jarrah?), and drill this for a round dog.

Thoughts?

Regards from Perth

Derek

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