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woodworking-vice-uk About the wooden screw, I would love to have one, but they are very expensive, unfortunately. Do you see any problem with those kinds of screws? A good vice, a woodworking vice uk spike and a holdfast. Also, do you use any lubricant on the wood guide rail to ease the slide? The tolerances on a leg vice would have to be tighter in order to work well, so it never quite feels as nice. This one in your vice of the woodworking vice uk above looks strong and, why not say, beautiful.

I just love these things, and they certainly make a great option. That is a consideration, but the real reason is due to that limbered up feeling of my worn in vice. The tolerances on a leg vice would have to be tighter in order to work well, so it never quite feels as nice.

Plus I prefer to work in the wider jaw. And for step by step videos on how to build your own traditional workbench, including the PDF plans, check out our English Workbench Online Series. As a professional hand tool woodworker, Richard found hand tools to be the far more efficient solution for a one man workshop. Richard runs 'The English Woodworker' as an online resource and video education for those looking for a fuss free approach to building fine furniture by hand.

Although the shoulder seems like it might get in the way, maybe. Have you put one to the sword before? Hi Rico, again if made with a wooden screw they are beautiful to use. I do love them though. Makes a great traditional face vise or leg vise. Overall, well worth the money—the entire bench with screw is a fraction of the cost of an oak behemoth.

And the dang thing is built like a WW1 tank and kind of looks like one too ,. Blimey, you did really well there! I agree about the importance of looks, and it is probably going to be the most handled tool in your workshop. Great post. Im slowly working my way through your workbench videos, but i never realised how much wooden vices cost!

With the face vise, is that other wooden beam a parallel guide similar to a leg vise? Does it have pins as well, or does it just keep the vise from spinning?

I took the liberty of copying your design with the screw offset on the right side and a guide rail on the left with a wedged through mortice and tenon. I am getting pretty fair amount of rack as I try and move the vise in and out. Have you had a chance to get some pictures of the back side of your apron with the guide rails? I would love to see how you solved this. Also, do you use any lubricant on the wood guide rail to ease the slide? Even older than old Records.

Excellent, sounds bloody perfect! They are truly lovely vices, the cracks come from misuse, not use. Another great bit of advice. Thanks for the all the suggestions Richard; your bench build is in my near future! Recently established a leg vice onto a very country work bench.

Never have one before — Joy… bliss even a touch of the sublime! Big metal square cut screw from ancient tractor, and the kind attention from my village Blackie gave me the kit for 10 bucks. Smooth as silk; complete removal simple ; removable verticle stops each side of the leg and rest pegs for long stuff. Little pressure require for a great hold.

Can recommend. Thank you for the nudge. A good vice, a planing spike and a holdfast. That old tractor screw sounds a beast! Your post is timely for me. Spring is coming eventually and I will be able to get into my garage again.

I have a small nicholson bench in my bedroom that I use for winter projects. It has a leg vise that I built with a simple metal screw. I really like having a leg vise and decided that I should finally add vise the the summer bench. I bought another screw, but have been waiting for warmer weather to build a vise. I would really like a leg vise on the summer bench. Unfortunately, the summer bench is legless! Yes, I know it sounds crazy. In order to have a bench in the garage I had to hang it on the wall and collapse it when not in use.

I have contemplated building a leg with attached leg vise. I am sure it would work, but when I collapse the bench, I would have to move the leg every time. That presents its own set of problems. I may just go with a face vise build to save space. On the other hand, I could just keep on without a vise.

However, if your going to be legless for much of the year, this I would gently suggest this is bordering on a vice. I have always found freash air is the answer and an outside winter bench with a tarp may be a possible answer. I can see a face vice making the swing down top too heavy, so the support of the leg could be needed. I need get on with the vise. I am still thinking face versus leg. Face with stow-able leg might be easier to store than leg with leg vise.

Now that warm weather is here and the wife wants me to haul a dump truck load of dirt around to the garden beds, I can think on it some more in the meantime!

Just in time for Lie Nielson open house at the factory, 40 miles down the road. Good article and insights. Though it has done nothing to dissuade me from considering a Benchcrafted leg vise. Those seem to appeal to both my head and my heart. Let us know what you opt for. RIchard, How would you install the metal face vise to your bench? Would you inset the face or just bolt it to the front with minimal cutout for the runners and bolted to the bench top?

Or some other way? Do that video. In all the spare time you have. Looking forward to your article on the same Richard. When you say teh tolerances on a leg vice have to be tighter to make it work properly, which elements are you specifically talking about?

The Parallel Guide? I built a bench last year and, after seeing a video that the Unplugged Woodworker posted on making his Nicholson type face vice I knew what I wanted, Unfortunately, the Lake Erie wooden vice kit had become so popular that getting one was going to be a problem…. Len is an engineer who developed a quick release vice mechanism that uses an internal cam to lock the vice solidly in a quarter turn, but allows the vice shaft which is smooth to freely move in and out of its collar with just a quarter turn back.

When I asked him if his VX20 vice kit would work in a single screw Nicholson vice type design, he worked with me and custom modified one of his vice kits to work horizontally, rather than the usual vertical orientation.

Can you apply gradual pressure with them or are they on or off? The Hovater vices look excellent — one of the intriguing parts is how they couple the two mechanisms together on their twin screw vices so you can tighten the it with either handle.

I suppose this means you never need to change the your position of your hands when you are tightening it up?. Great text! I share the same interest of Rico who commented previously by the Scandinavian vices. Of course, there is the cross-grain question on the shoulder that needs attention.

I actually think we sold them at a loss. Anyway, I really liked that vice you put on the English workbench. This one in your vice of the photo above looks strong and, why not say, beautiful. Hi, lovely article about vices that is. Since a couple of month I am experimenting with the 62mm wooden screw,turned and threaded in my own shop. Yesterday I got me some more beech, which seems quite adequat for the screw itself, and I also use it for the yaw. This time the experiment will be a leg vice.

Strength of the wooden thread seems to be less of a problem than anticipated beforhand. Even locally harvested mapel did make a strong screw. Hi Norbert, It really is incredible just how strong a wooden thread can be, particularly when you think of its grain orientation. In my testing I failed to break one, with the normal handle anyway. I also deliberately chipped half the thread off one to see the effect, and it still worked great. You wrote, that you would mortice the back metal jaw in the apron.

Should I go deeper with the metall jaw to put a wood jaw in front of the back jaw to come flush with the apron? So I would have a wooden hardwood back jaw morticed in my pine apron? Is it overkill to to that? If not, which thickness for the hardwood jaws should I take? I would use the softwood apron as the jaw, which would last you a very long time, and should it ever chip up you could always recess a new rear jaw in.

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