The **Real** Use for Dogholes in a Workbench

Mommy was late getting home, so Daddy had The Kid to himself for a few hours tonight. After dinner, Daddy decided to get in some woodworking. The Kid (one month shy of 2yo) decided to help.The Kid discovered where Daddy keeps the candles he uses for rubbing on handplane soles, etc., to prevent rust.


Apparently, these are the **real** purpose for dogholes in a workbench.









Speaking of handplanes, here's a sure sign of a happy Galoot (lover of woodworking handtools):

For a number of reasons (regular readers will have an inkling), I haven't done much woodworking in the last two(?) years. Haven't used a handplane in 6-12 months. Luckily, my current project (need to make a box-like gluing jig for the hatchet handle I'm Frankensteining) requires some cleaning up of some wooden surfaces. Pulled out one of my three near-identical jack planes (someday I'll find a reasonably-priced [used] metal-bodied smoothing plane), cleaned off the surface rust (the joys of living in a subtropical clime), lapped the sole, sides, iron, and chipbreaker (had to go fetch a cinderblock from the back yard, and spray-adhesive some fine-grit sandpaper to it), and had at it.

Had to remove the candles from the dogholes, first.

The Kid came by to investigate the weird ''schwick... schwick...'' sound Daddy was making. Every few passes of the plane, I'd stop and she'd remove the shavings from the plane, and stuff them down the dogholes. Later, as I was putting my tools away, she walked among the shavings, crunching them like autumn leaves.

Kids R fun. :)


--GG