What a great idea. I have racking all the time on my Moxon vise. My solution is a wedge shaped wood but it has contact on only a small part of the vise at the top of the vise.
What a great idea. I have racking all the time on my Moxon vise. My solution is a wedge shaped wood but it has contact on only a small part of the vise at the top of the vise.
Graham,
I've DTDT with many of the popular vises. For me, of course YMMV, the best all around, easiest to use and for that matter to install on the bench is the metal English QR vise.
Having said that, I expect to start on a portable bench with a wood screw leg vise as soon as I finish MsBubba's kitchen cart. I expect I will build into it something like Derek's anti-rack device.
ken
That's a pretty fancy anti-racking device, Derek. I still have my pieces of scrap, with T's screwed across the top so they don't fall through, in the thicknesses that I work, on my clutter-table behind my bench. I like your idea, though, and may have to incorporate that at some point.
Jeff
The two woods blend very well. The Jarrah grain is most striking.
I did post pictures of the top & under my bench top a while back in a thread, can't find it now. I will post some more in a proper build thread when I'm not so crazy busy with work. A lengthy project but very enjoyable.
You can do a lot with very little! You can do a little more with a lot!