No tail vise, no other doodads. If the bench is going to be used for woodworking leave it as it. I Woodworking Vise Placement Program beefed it up woodwork vise placement a old pine closet door and a face vise. Generally, once you decide on a particular style of vise, the more you spend, the better the quality and effectiveness of that vise. Replies: 21 Last Post:PM.

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Resin Casting. Shop Talk. Woodcraft Magazine. Woodworking Adventures. Download PDF. Give your workbench the holding power it deserves. Countersink the through-holes on the back of the rear jaw to allow attaching the cheek with flathead screws. Install the vise with washers and lag screws that project through clearance holes in the two spacer blocks. Planing against a single stop in this case a planing spike speeds up your workflow, and teaches proper hand planing technique.

Our English Workbench Series includes the making and installation of both the face vice and the planing spike — You can find the details of the build here.

Why have a second stop behind your work when you just want to stop the wood moving forward? A single stop is far more effective all round. People love the idea of tail vices because they want everything to stay still. But in reality I find this de-evolves you. Hand planing against a stop may be nerve wracking, but the lack of support is the real beauty of it.

The pressure you apply, the speed of your stroke, the sharpness of your edge. The stop will tell you if you have any of these wrong, because your wood will move. Stops can come in all shapes and sizes. The holes are also handy when it comes to using holdfasts. My favourite kind of bench stop though is a planing spike. These provide a nice broad face to butt your work against, and that face is toothed to offer some grip in the edge of your boards.

A planing spike in my opinion should always be made. A holdfast and a few sticks can be used alongside your stops. This combination will do everything, and do it far more elegantly and swiftly than a tail vice.

Fancy designers will talk about negative space, and how the blank areas are actually a part of the design. That arse end of the bench is far more useful left blank, so you can cut off it. There seems to be a temptation when building a bench to plan for all eventualities. I used to get requests for workbenches with four vices. A far better approach is to do the opposite. The only extra my bench has is a nail in the end for hanging a brush.

I use that nail all day, every day. We include PDF plans together with the detailed build videos. As a professional hand tool woodworker, Richard found hand tools to be the far more efficient solution for a one man workshop. Richard runs 'The English Woodworker' as an online resource and video education for those looking for a fuss free approach to building fine furniture by hand. Richard — I totally agree — I drank the cool-aid and build a rouboesq bench 4 years ago and since then have use the tail vice maybe a handful of times — I did add a toothed planing dog and that has worked great.

I agree with most of what you say Richard. You are always a paragon of common sense. The hardware for my tail vice came from a cheap old workbench I used to have so I thought I may as well utilise it. I regularly cut wood off this end of the bench Woodworking Vise Placement Near Me and the vice causes me no problems.

All Woodworking Vise Placement Rate the best! If you install a spiked stop on your new bench, you may even find you start ditching the battens a fair bit as well. I went with a single face vise because it was all I could afford. That was five years ago. Ooh, very timely post. Ta very much. If you get the chance, it would be great to hear your thoughts if any on sourcing screws. I have also glued up the trestles already, so chopping from the inside of the leg will be inconvenient. I also need to think a bit about the placement of the legs and the vise — the room in the basement is small and crammed full of stuff already and we just moved in — bloody hellfire!

Oh, and the vise… right. I might have to mount it more to the centre of the bench, because it might be more convenient i. Is there any disadvantage to that? Total bench length will be about cm 6ft -ish, a bit less. Another thing: I really like your videos. They are well presented and well made and worth every penny! If somebody reading this is wondering about sharpening or the bench build: Get the videos!

They are fun to watch and the methods work, even especially? Once the bench is made I will build the spoon rack, it looks like a good project to learn on small and not too scary, except for the dovetails. Hi Richard, most of this makes a lot of sense, I just wonder about fenced planes. A tail vise seems like the simplest way to hold a piece so that the edge is flush with the front of the bench. Hi Nathan, In theory, I always thought this too.

A holdfast, batten and spiked stop will do the holding here just as well, and you can work on infinitely narrow pieces. I have an inset tail vice — use it all the time. The work is butted against a veritas planing stop so I can just pinch the workpiece enough to stop it moving without any distortion to the piece being worked on. Maybe my technique is poor as you eluded to. I thickness all of my material by hand, and have never needed a tail vice. Hello Richard, I just finished building an English Workbench from your fantastic video series.

Think of a bench vise as a tool that s as essential to your success as a hand plane router or tablesaw. Woodworker s vises are designed to be attached to the underside of the front of a woodworking bench.

Face vises are attached on the front or face of the bench. You would not generally mallet in the tail vise as it is used more for dogging the work although my last post using the clamp is the best doggon dogging system i know Woodworking Bench Front Vise Zip of. The best benches have both but if you can only afford one i d go for a face vise initially.

You will sooner or later in most cases want a shoulder vise which placement will depend on what hand you use as the pusher for hand planes and an end vise which combined with bench dogs holes will allow clamping to the length of the bench. A wood jaw vise requires assembly. Right handers should mount a face vise at the far left of the bench s front edge and an end vise on the end of the bench at the foremost right hand corner.

I just can t figure out where it would be most useful and out of the way. Woodworking vises differ from metalworking vises in that they attach to the bottom of the bench surface or are built into it with typically wood. The vise s constituent parts include a pair of iron jaws while its other components. On my workbench build i did the legs the same form each end and altered the tope rail to take the stems and screw of the vise between the top of the top rail and the bearer.

I ve seen other s workbenchs with them mounted on the right and left corners and in the middle. Squeeze the lever on this quick release.

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