Carpenter’s Vise Part 2 - Custom Jaw Liners

[@TheArtofCraftsmanship]

I love the use of the clamp to set in the dowels at the end. That was awesome! The final product looks great!

[@CraftingALifeIWant]

Thanks sir, I certainly learned a lot during this one.

[@stevekingsbury7190]

Learned a lot watching you work through the process. Thanks for boldly going where I haven't been before. Life does have a learning curve. lol. End result looks good and functional. 🍰

[@CraftingALifeIWant]

Lol thanks sir. Yeah, learned a ton along the way. :)

[@financeswithmike]

Love the speed up to see the entire process without being in real time. Great job!

[@CraftingALifeIWant]

Thanks sir, I’m working hard at keeping these shorter while still being useful.

[@timriley8393]

Great job! I really appreciate you leaving in the trials & tribulations to the project. You showed a lot of honesty in you videos by not editing out the mistakes. You also showed that even if mistakes are made, a person can still get to a good looking/functioning end result. I'll hit subscribe!

[@CraftingALifeIWant]

Thanks Tim, I try to put up an honest video showing my learning path so others can hopefully avoid those mistakes. I remember when I was a kid, my grandpa told me a story about how my grandmother always thought he did better work for others because all she saw was the finished product as compared to the full process at home, where she sees the mistakes that have to be fixed.

[@KelsAcosta]

like your work champ .. another solid upload !!

[@CraftingALifeIWant]

Thanks again, really appreciate it.

[@michaelkelley6905]

I know this is an older video, but I’m in the process of mounting a similar vise to my Roubo workbench I built. The top is 4 1/2” solid laminated oak and pine. I watched a ton of stuff about mounting these vises and I still don’t understand why the final mounting shouldn’t be flush with the face/edge of the bench for longer stock to be supported along the length of the bench with either a clamp a support or a horizontal hold fast on the leg.

[@CraftingALifeIWant]

Thanks for watching. I address this during the last few minutes of the part 2 video. If you listen to my last bit of the video, I talk about how if I had planned my leg placement with the vise in mind, I’d have left enough space outside of the leg to do just what you suggested. But with it placed inside of the leg, it was super annoying to clamp anything or work on anything with it flush to the face. Hence the rework.

[@michaelkelley6905]

Thanks for the response. I do have room on either side of the leg for mounting. Bench is is 90” long, overhang on each end is about 24”. Is there a big advantage to either inside or outside of the leg, in your opinion? I’ve got a homemade leg vise on the opposite side and a wagon wheel type vise I made from a workmate screw mechanism.

[@CraftingALifeIWant]

@@michaelkelley6905 my bench is only about 60” long and I only had 6-8” outside of my legs. I would’ve preferred it to be on the end to make it easier to clamp and work around items in it as desired. But with the mounting holes wider even than the metal jaw, it just wasn’t going to work with my bench setup. I’ve thought about putting a wooden leg vise on the other end, but honestly my bench is short enough I don’t have enough need. I’m sure some point in the future I’ll build a new one out of better materials. This ended up being out of old pine joists from a 1920s house I remodeled.

[@michaelkelley6905]

@@CraftingALifeIWantThanks, the vise I'm installing is a yost 10.5" wide vise and weights almost 40 pounds. The beach without the vise is 365 pounds. It's very heavy. I've got the position marked for inserting the vise (assuming I don't change the position of it.). I was planning on putting a piece of leather on the clamping surface of the vise on the insert bench side, and use either wood or leather on the screw side.

[@CraftingALifeIWant]

@@michaelkelley6905 leather is a great idea as well and one I considered, pretty sure I didn’t have enough leather at the time which is why it didn’t happen. Hmmm, maybe I’ll add that to my jaws.