Quote Originally Posted by Edward Weber View Post
When something gets to the size where I would need a holdfast with a 1" thick shaft, gravity alone usually takes over.
I found the crucibles most useful when I was trying to learn timber frame joinery indoors in the winter time. I bought two rough sawn pieces, a 4x10 and an 8x8. Both were over ten feet long. For scrubbing those down to where I could use a fore plane to get them smooth enough for pencil layout I found the crucibles nearly ideal. I could have used maybe ratcheting tow straps, but that would have been time consuming.

The Doug Fir blank for my face vise chop was 16/4, 9 feet, 13" wide. The gramercy's might could have handled that, the plank I bought had been surfaced green, so I was able to go immediately to straight edge and pencil layout. Besides the chop I got all four legs for my next bench out of that plank.