Thread: What are Workmates like

What wide jaws? Did someone slip in a cracking tip while I was saying " yes dear" to SWMBO?

For the record NewLou, once obtained, said Workm8's can be jigged, tricked, bodged and adapted in all sorts of ways.Try looking up "THE WOODWORKER" Vol 103, issue 3 or (thin this one) sussing one Glen Roberts of the district of Oz, who published several elegant ideas in "The Router " issues 8,9, 14. Let me know if you have no luck, I might be able to scan or snail mail you copies.

Originally Posted by NewLou

REally appreciate the feedback fellas!!
I'm interested in incorporating the Zyliss vice into the setup and probs the workm8..................anyone own one of these vices? I'd really like to hear what there like first hand???



REgards Lou

I picked up a Zyliss a few years ago out of the trading post and found it quite usefull at the time as i had no other vise, but now i have a record 521/2 and vertias bench dogs (and wonder dogs)it just sits there gathering dust. The originals are well made but beware as there are a few copies around. They are like most tools that "do everything" they have to compromise a bit on some functions. Used the drill clamping collar for quite a while to hold a drill driving a sanding disc.
It can clamp some pretty difficult things - if you can remember how all the bits go together for that function.

Doesd anyone sell Zyliss apart from the spruikers at the WW shows, I've never seen them for sale anywhere else.