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Ernie miller Topeka ks

>here is the old way I did it. this is much better. I used Mahogany but should have used Maple or something harder. I have these 3/4" nuts every 1' along the side of the bench for attaching jigs and vises like this up to 6' long Most I have used is 3' when I built a blanket chest.

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Todd O. Cronkhite Maine Native, Presently Away

>No Thanks required buddy, I'm just glad that in some form I was able to inspire somebody else to find a solution to their particular problem, tho I'm not really sure how. Pretty cool vise idea you have there as well. So, what did you do, sink some T-nuts in those giant wingnuts?

How 'bout a close up of those two planes in that pic?

Todd O.

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Ernie miller Topeka ks

>No I drilled holes into the bench them morticed some nut in it and then put a cover board to hold them inplace. I use bolts of differant lengths depending what I want to hold. I thought about using them to hold a tool tray on the bench some time if I ever wanted to but I don't think I ever will. theseare just holes with the bolt head morticed in. I thought I would plug over the heads with a contrasting wood but Mahogany is to soft and the heads will spin in time so I will redo.

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Derek Cohen (in Perth, Australia)

>Ernie

That looks familiar!

My "$5 dovetail vise":

It holds boards well, but I wish it was higher - high enough that I did not need to bend over and squint at the lines when I saw. So I plan to build a bench-on-the-bench.

Regards from Perth

Derek

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Todd O. Cronkhite Maine Native, Presently Away

>Looks like a case of "Great Minds Think Alike" eh? ;~)

Looks like this setup really allow a lot of torque to be applied as I see in both Ernie and Dereks vise the front jaw is bowing! WOW!

T.O.

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Moses Yoder in White Pigeon, MI

>I have one of those halogen shop lights that sets on the floor, is only about a foot high, and you can adjust the angle on it. When cutting dovetails I set this on the floor to the right of me about 8 feet since I am right handed and a little bit behind me. I adjust the light to hit the end of my board; works very well to see marks because of the raking light.

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Kevin French

>I like it, I want it, I have most of today off. Pics tonight?

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Ernie Miller

>You don't really need to torque it that hard. and I usualy just use a 1 ft board and it dosn't bow at all. if you are worried about torque you couls also put a strong back on the streacher board. it wouldn't have to be much. I have also been thinking about putting some edgebanding on the top of the poard with that has alternating colored wood at a 12-1 angles so a guy could just eyeball the cut angle for quick and dirty work

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Kevin French

>OK, here's mine. It's a 2 x 22 x 1 1/4" piece of Oak. The 2 1/2" Knobs are cut out of Maple. I put two 5/8" anchores in the bench and use 3 1/4 x 1/2" carriage bolts that I morticed into the knobs.

Ernie you're right it doesn't take a lot of pressure to hold the wood fast.

Thanks for the idea.

Nice knobs Kevin!

Scott Burr in Ben Lomond CA

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Dave Mount, hey, we broke 0 F today!

>Never mind the vise Kevin, that's an interesting photo. Couple of what appear to be pipe vises, some sanding disks, 45,243 screwdrivers, a bowsaw, a dust mask (you must plane really fast. . .JK), a can of paint (hope that's not what your chisels are used for), a floatilla (on mercury, of course Bill) of jointers hiding down below, a piece of unidentified Makita blue plastic in the center, and what appears to be a disembodied bow saw floating in the upper right.

The question is. . .what project could you be working on that would involve all these things?

I even see one of my favorite non-vintage tools -- a 25' stanley lever-lock tape, hiding in the back. Best modern tape measure there is (was), I can't fathom why Stanley decided to quit making them. I bought three extras and stuck them in a drawer when I heard they were being discontinued.

Least you're busy, that's for certain.

All in fun,

Dave

P.S. Nice vise too.

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Kevin French

>Dave it's worst then THAT pic shows. It's been a busy couple of weeks, I just restored a 'Sitting' Beanch, I'm in the middle of stripping 2 tables, and the triple folding bench at the end of the 'Work' Bench -Thus all the sanders and disks. I'm also working on a case to hold my collection of saw sets. And just added the Track lighting.

One of those pipe vises will be restored as I'm about to plumb the shop for air.

There's only 45,184 screwdrivers, files etc. in that rack, but there is another 65,459 in the shelves behind the bench. The Bow saw is waiting on the repair of my lathe. And the planes are a #6, 2-7s, and an 8, (f to b).

I did come down from supper with the intent to clean off the bench. which I had cleared just last weekend.

What are those yellow and green plastic things

Bill Houghton, Sebastopol, CA

>on the bench? Where are the handles that make their chucks turn? Or are they windup?

Now THERE's a question to spark a philosophical discussion here: if you made a drill that you wound up first, like a clock, but that otherwise operated like an electron-burner, would it be a hand tool?

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Ernie Miller

>that makes me feal alot better. organized cayous? I have a sheet rock celing in my basement shop just think of all the storage space I am missing out on. At least my bench is clean it the area around it that isn't