willshak wrote in
:

I thought you were going to ask how to stop a dog from digging in the
yard. :-)

I was a Metalsmith in the US Navy back in the late 1950s. I only dealt
with steel dogs.
The holes in the steel table were round and the steel dogs were bent,
sort of like the number "7". The dogs were inserted in the hole and
onto the work, then tapped down with a hammer to clamp the work.
The difference in wooden dogs rather than steels dogs is the hole is
angled rather than the dog itself.

pic of shop. Note the dogs on the rail below the tabletop and one in
use on the table.
https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/phot...5tNtRoYS1luOVt
jHdVwQiWec?feat=directlink&full-exif=true Or:
http://preview.tinyurl.com/czjke3h


Those sound like "hold fasts." A picture and description can be found at
(this was a quick image search):
http://toolsforworkingwood.com/store...MS-HOLDFAST.XX

Puckdropper
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Make it to fit, don't make it fit.