Rebating vise jaws

**JDarvall** · 10th January 2008, 05:32 PM

Finally got a chance to do this on an old vice I picked up recently. Something to talk about.

Pinched the idea from that 'making woodwork aids and devices' by Robert Wearing.

uno, its just a means of attaching different faces to your vice.

Just this one kind of face I been wanting. Just made it out of ply scrap. Nothing flash. Needent be. Cork lined (or carpet or whatever) with a sliding fit so that I can raise them above the bench a touch to grip for finishing work that sits straight on the bench top. for planing draws or whatever.

Probably won't use it much. But thinking I could also keep the outiside face raised (with the inside down) and just screw in a padded stop into the bench top wherever I want, to grip anything like you do with dogs.

I think the whole rebated jaws concept is excellent. I don't think I personally have much use for the rest of the face ideas in the book. But somebody probably would.

**griffithpark** · 11th January 2008, 04:31 AM

Now I know what I'm doing Sunday afternoon.

**jow104** · 11th January 2008, 05:15 AM

And that will be the next job I do when I get back in the workshop.

In addition I will make a further frontal insert with just a raised centre lip to work like a vice dog.

**jow104** · 11th January 2008, 05:24 AM

Apricotripper

I assume you have omitted the holding plate from the front end of the vice?

There is nothing for the brackets to slide down on, when observing the first thumbnail.

**JDarvall** · 11th January 2008, 06:54 AM

I'm pretty shore its all there......rebated ply screwed onto both jaws. In that first pic I'm holding the outer corked face in my hand...can see the rebated ply , that it slides over, on the jaw below.

I used pretty thick ply, only because I wanted to use it up.....but if I had thinner stuff I would have used that..... Doesn't need to be as bulky as I have it, I'd say.

**jow104** · 11th January 2008, 06:25 PM

OK Apricotripper, I see its a photographic perspective illusion, the piece in your hand is higher than the timber at vice position.

This makes the piece look too large.

**JDarvall** · 13th January 2008, 09:45 AM

spose. Just trying to seperate it all a bit so it was easier to see how it came together.

**jow104** · 13th January 2008, 06:42 PM

Thanks apricot tripper, I expect it could have been me, had a bad day at the time and my brain didnt catch on.

**orraloon** · 15th January 2008, 01:40 PM

I have just scored a copy of Making woodwork aids and devices from a secondhand book shop. It has got all kinds of jigs and work tips. I can only wonder at who would have parted with it in the first place.

Regards
John

**JDarvall** · 15th January 2008, 04:42 PM

lucky bugger.

Doesnt' happen often with me at second hand stores.

There's a pair of faces in there I'm thinking of doing as well, since I've got a strip of rebating left......... the one with 'V's in it to grip round shapes.

I didn't think I'd need that, until the other day when I needed to clamp up a chisel handle.

Clever book isn't it. Its one of those books I reakon you can re-read every year or so and still learn something new.

**rhancock** · 15th January 2008, 09:23 PM

And for those of us who don't yet own the book, Amazon have very kindly copied the page here! Just click on the Excerpt link on the left.

Wish I'd read this at lunchtime before I finally got around to making the vice jaws for the vice I fitted a year ago...

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