Thread: My new bench

Cool, Thanks for the info Wendy.
Cheers,
Alastair

Bloody borers are into the top already hehehehehe seriously though very nice indeed

Originally Posted by RufflyRustic

Hi

The wagon vice is Picture # 2. It's the type of vise you put in, where you still wanted a vice, but didn't want to go with a tail vise or end vise.

How have you found it? I've only seen one other bench that has it (there will be more, I've just missed them) and that is Chris Vesper's bench.

cheers
Wendy

To be accurate, I don't think Chris has it fitted to his bench yet. About three weeks back I emailed him asking if he wanted to sell me his wagon vice. He said that he was hanging onto it so that he could fit it when he gets that far.

The same vice from the US is tres expensive.

Golly the names for vices varies greatly depending upon what you read. I thought what I had installed was known as a tail vice but if its better known as a wagon vice then so be it.

So far there are a few dings & scratches on the top but nothing to worry about.

The wagon vice was really easy to install, much easier than the front vice. Once again the article from Aust Woodsmith was spot on with dimensions and advice for sequence.

There are a couple of dog blocks which I use in conjunction with the wagon vice and long bench dogs which allow me to hang large panels off the edge of the vice and plane the edge. I suppose there is scope to clamp something up to 900 wide (hanging to the floor) and up to 1800 long. I had better get some pictures these. got the idea from a Time Life woodworking journal thingy.

Roy/

I agree with you Roy, pic #2 shows a tail vise, might also be known as a wagon vise but I would say that the more common term is tail vise.

Cheers,