My new wagon vise

Re: Impressed

Stephen Kirk in Quakertown, PA

>I would tend to agree here. Even though I have to get back to the w. vise and take the slop out of it, I find it's very useful for working cross grain, such as scrubbing, flattening or smoothing boards. I have a wonder dog and it's often in the way with 3/4" boards, which requires me to raise up the workpiece and is a bit of a hassle. Plus, the wonder dog doesn't open or close as fast and I end up knuckling the bench surface a lot. I still use, just for certain purposes. It's nice if I'm working on something small or odd shaped.

With the w. vise, I have put smaller boards right into the opening and clamped them tight. Works fine that way too.

I tend to do hand crosscutting on a shooting board/bench hook, so I'm not often sawing off the side of the bench. For big cuts, I have the saw bench (courtesy of Chris again) to work on.

In terms of no pound zone, the solid core door I use for a bench is 30" x 80", so the "pound zone" is pretty large compared to the "no pound zone". Plenty fine for my purposes.

Re: Your impression?

Stephen Kirk in Quakertown, PA

>Hmm, time to look through the old copies.

Looking forward to your bench book too Chris. When the garage er shop get re-arranged, maybe a new bench will appear, or slowly take shape as the case may be. I like that design from you video on Pop Wood (the German design, I believe). That English (I think) design with the front/rear skirts and angled legs is neat too. Oh, just so many choices, maybe I should build them all.

wonder dogs

dave brown

>I had a set of wonder dogs for a bit and sold them. As others have said, their height makes unsuitable for this materials and they have a tendency to rack vertically when clamped tightly. For me, the threads are too fine and clamp slowly. They work for some, I just didn't find them useful.