Homemade Woodworking Bench Vice

As you may have seen in the first video the mechanism works wonderfully and just as well.

Homemade woodworking bench vice.

It s a great add on for my roubo workbench in holding those small pieces. I also extended the base past the jaws by 3 on both sides to facilitate clamping. This vise hardware requires a shop made outer jaw of 1 1 2 3 thick hardwood with dogholes if you so choose for holding stock with bench dogs. The vice is finished and it works fantastic i couldn t be happier.

The jaws of the vise can be made custom to fit your p. The first project i will be making with these machines is a bench vice. I made the sliding jaw about 1 8 wider than the fixed jaw so that it would register up against the worktable. Make your own bench vise.

I built my own workbench and what s still missing is a woodworking vise. Aug 16 2014 found the plans for this in shopnotes. Wood screws and wood glue will help to keep everything together and a drill and saw should be the only major tools needed to dimension and prep the lumber. But not having a vise does not mean you need to put your woodworking on hold.

In issue 268 which will be coming out next week we have a great collection of workbench tips titled rethinking the workbench. Vises are expensive if you re a beginner you probably know that tools and especially power tools are really expensive why should you buy a vise when you can make your own. A pivoting jaw vise holds irregular shape stock without racking the jaws. I can t say enough about how useful this thing is.

An mdf table surface is added to provide a flat surface that will not warp with humidity changes. The nuts are glued into the notches with slow set epoxy. Now don t for one minute think that when i build a bench for my new shop i m going to leave off the vise. There are several vise sets online but i want to build my own one.

I m moving my workshop from the cellar into the garage to have more space. I need to make this vi. Clamp and go once the vise is assembled clamp it to your bench as required and start sawing. So i have a new planer thicknesser and bandsaw in my workshop.

The benchtop s edge or apron typically serves as the inner jaw. Red oak acme screw. This is the reason that i made this collection for. In this instructable you can fol.