LN tail vise

Re: LN tail vise

Paul Kierstead

>From the recent LN chat:

Ellis: How are the workbenches coming along, Tom?

TLN: We have a small group of people working on benches. We've worked out most of the details. We plan to make our own hardware after the first of the year, not being happy with what I have been able to buy. our production will be small, but it's going to be steady. And they are beautiful

I don't know if the tailvises are part of this new hardware or not, but you might want to inquire first.

Re: LN tail vise

ThomD

>Interesting piece. I wonder how it works. Seems to set the guide plate spacing for you, I hope that means the whole thing is tighter than usual, because a lot of these things have an unpleasant slop. I would prefer it to be adjustible and maybe lined with something like UHMW.

Re: LN tail vise

GolfSteve in Calgary

>I have the LN small tail vice, buy have yet to install it. I also have the Atlas tail vice as advertised in the Workbench book.

The vice sold by LN is very nice compared to the others I've seen. Much heavier, nice coarse threads, and easy adjustments. I think it was worth the extra money over the Atlas vice or the other vices I've seen. In fact, it was nice enough to convince me to buy the LN vice even though I already had the Atlas vice in hand.

I hadn't heard that LN was considering manufacturing their own line of bench hardware.

Re: LN tail vise

ThomD

>Is atlas still stocking the vise hardware? I think I once saw one of those Atlas/Fortune/Landis benches at LN, but then maybe I am mixing that up with Masterpiece Tools.

Re: LN tail vise

GolfSteve in Calgary

>Atlas was still stocking those tail vices as of about a 1.5 years ago when I bought it.