Bench top on hold (a gloat)

Re: Bench top on hold (a gloat)

Joe Rogers, Northern Virginia

>If the Stanley is for doing 90 deg joints with the 2 spigot type clamping knobs...Yes. It is very handy for picture framing and is in demand. More discription may help if it isn't this type vise.Jr

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Jeff

>This one has appears to have a single clamp and that operated both jaws. Doesn't look like much to me but I have never used one either.

I found a good photos in a completed Ebay auction.


Completd auction for 702 vise

Re: Bench top on hold (a gloat)

Bill Houghton, Sebastopol, CA

>I own a similar Stanley vise, but in cast iron. This type of vise is intended for placement on the end of a sawhorse of the type that uses a 2x4 or 2x6 horizontally as the top.

I've never found it very useful, mainly because I have yet to figure out how to fasten it to the sawhorse firmly enough that it will actually hold the stock still. I can see it, perhaps, to hold a door still (set the door on the floor, clamp it in the vertical leg of the vise) when mortising for hinge gains or locksets, but there are better ways to do that, and I usually just lean the door up against something and then brace it with my thigh from the other side.

Your mileage may vary, particularly if you're willing to drill through the fixed jaw where it sits against the sawhorse to screw it down.