Your bench vise setup...cutting dovetails.

[Andrew Seemann]

I use a shoulder vise. It works like it was made for dovetailing. Oh, wait, it was

A 12" or even wider board would be no trouble.

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[brian zawatsky]

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Clamping a medicine cabinet case I made recently for final smoothing. The cheap little F-clamp is really just for moral support - the case was solid with no flex and the patternmaker's vise was capable of supporting it on its own, even under the smooth plane. I know, I'm spoiled. That Emmert was worth every penny!

[glenn bradley]

I added a little t-track to my bench-on-bench:

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I use the same holddowns I have for the drill press and other fixtures.

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[steven c newman]

Have enough room on my end vise, I can clamp things up..
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Depending on the width of the board...I go as far as I can, flip the board around, and come in from the other edge.
Board in this picture was a 1 x6. I can do almost 12" wide boards like this....I can raise the boards up, to get a better view, when doing the layouts
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Then drop the board down, to where it is easy to saw, while I sit down on the shopstool. Bottom of the cuts are about elbow height.....nothing real fancy, more about just laying things out, and making the cuts needed, have projects to get done....

[John Schtrumpf]

I use one or two cabinet maker's vises:

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[Derek Cohen]

I used a shop made double screw vise about 20 years ago, and up until I built a new bench around 5 or 6 years ago. One of the factors that made it possible to go to my current bench design was the Moxon-type vise. It is a vise dedicated to dovetailing, and is so far superior to any vise that does double or treble duty for other tasks. This bise allows one to stand up straighter, placing the work piece at a more ergonomic level - it is not the same as just lifting the work piece higher in the vise since boards need to be properly supported in the vise.

Build a decent Moxon vise. Don't thank me. Thank Moxon



Regards from Perth

Derek