Thread: Record 52ed Vice

I used 25 mm pine. You don't want the jaw linings to be harder than your workpiece; otherwise they are liable to mar it.

Rocker

I've got 1/2" marine ply on mine - been there about 30 years - has worked a treat. Not hard enough to damage anything but more than able to apply plenty of pressure when needed. IMHO pine would probably not been so long lasting. An old chippie told me about the ply back then.

Ok, so now I can see that I should use a softer material, either natural or man made, so the jaws do not mark the work. Will these materials take a tap(?), for the bolt? :confused:

The last Woodworking Vice I had was borrowed for only a short time, and I used three-ply fixed with double sided tape!

The attached diagram was lifted from the current edition of Australian Amateur Boatbuilder, and obviously was lifted from somewhere else and came from a time and place when/where "vice" was spelt with a "Y" to distinguish it from the other sort of pleasurable pursuit.

By interpolation it would appear that a 1 1/8" quarter sawn timber is recommended with a "slip" to keep it all nice and straight and crack free. Weren't those the days!!!

Cheers.

P

"Weren't those the days!!!"

Yeh -- when if yer wanted to cut a bit of wood or steel it was all hard yakka.