Here is a weird question I was thinking of. I'm gonna be building a new bench in the future and I am left handed. I plan on putting on an L-shaped tail vise and was wondering if anyone out there that is left handed where they located the tail vise? On the left end or the right? I currently have a right end (looking from the front) tail vise and was wondering if planing is really that much easier if I went the other way. Yeah, I know I can try it out, which I plan to do, but was just asking anyways.
The only thing I can think about this really making a difference on is that when planing and having something clamped in the tail vise is that is that I push the plane away from the center of the bench (since I still plane left handed on a right end tail vise). If the vise was mounted on the left end then I would be pushing towards the center of the bench. Maybe there would be less racking and shifting in the bench?
Anyone want to laugh at me on this one? Go ahead, I know I am.