Tom Bussey
12-27-2019, 8:45 PM
First and foremost, if you build a bench you can build it anyway you want to. And you can spent a thousand dollars on vise screws or like me spend less that $175 for 4 main vises. Also I am not a fan of roubo benches but if you are go for it. There is nothing wrong with it. It is I just prefer a different style.
As I stated, I prefer a tail vise and a shoulder vise. I do not especially care for front vises, they can rack without spacers. I see no advantage to a end vise, A lot of people swear by the twin screw vise, which is an end vise but I see no real advantage to it The tail vise does the same thing as an end vise, and my dog holes are in line and I can clamp with the tail vise and the wagon vise at the same time. Basically the same as an end vise, if I had to.
I write and eat left handed, I bat and throw right handed and there have been more that I care to remember in my 50 years of woodworking that I wished to clamp left handed but couldn't until this bench. One person said the being right handed he would make bot sides right handed. Without thinking I did that on my previous bench. And in 4 year I had it I never walked around to the other side to use it because other than having a ley vise instead of a shoulder vise it was the same. Planning stops and bench dogs basically do the same thing except the dogs also have down clamping were as planning stops only stop and offer no clamping or work holding.
Anyway i'll let the pictures speak for them selves.
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As I stated, I prefer a tail vise and a shoulder vise. I do not especially care for front vises, they can rack without spacers. I see no advantage to a end vise, A lot of people swear by the twin screw vise, which is an end vise but I see no real advantage to it The tail vise does the same thing as an end vise, and my dog holes are in line and I can clamp with the tail vise and the wagon vise at the same time. Basically the same as an end vise, if I had to.
I write and eat left handed, I bat and throw right handed and there have been more that I care to remember in my 50 years of woodworking that I wished to clamp left handed but couldn't until this bench. One person said the being right handed he would make bot sides right handed. Without thinking I did that on my previous bench. And in 4 year I had it I never walked around to the other side to use it because other than having a ley vise instead of a shoulder vise it was the same. Planning stops and bench dogs basically do the same thing except the dogs also have down clamping were as planning stops only stop and offer no clamping or work holding.
Anyway i'll let the pictures speak for them selves.
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