Hi all! I finally ALMOST finished my new workbench (Tom Caspar's tosrion box workbench) and I mounted my face vise, but I took one wrong measurement so that the front jaw is actually 1/4" shorted than the top of the bench!!
Since I'm using the front of the bench as the rear jaw, it looks kind of silly. But does it make any functional difference? I was thinking of just slapping on a 1/4" piece of masonite to disguise my error.
My wife thinks that since I spent soooo much time working on it, I might as well just make a new vise jaw that fits. It was a pain in the butt making that jaw in the first place though.
Anyway, the bottom line is .. aside from aesthetics, what reason is there that the top of the front jaw be flush with the top of the bench/read jaw??
Thanks!
Vince