I recommend adding a face vice to your workbench. They aren’t restricted by this, but as a general rule we’ll use the face vice to hold work against the front of the bench, while a tail vice gets used to hold work down to the bench top itself. I mentioned above that there’s two positions you can expect to find a woodworking vice, well these offer us two different means to hold work. (I tried to sell these without a tail vice but everyone insisted they needed one!) The Two Woodworking Vice Types This shows the two main woodworking vice locations, the face vice at the front, and a tail vice at the end holding a board to the bench top. Then for re-adjustment, because tightening has a habit of shifting your work. You’ll probably need to open and close again for adjustment. It’s not just closing and opening the vice. It’s surprising how much time can be lost. Getting enough grip between two vice jaws risks damaging and distorting our work, and it’s a process that takes time. Our work needs to be available to pick up as quickly and frequently as possible. We’ll saw whilst it’s vertical, then chop while it’s laid flat. It will be in our hands as much as on the workbench. Our work can’t simply sit in the same position while we progress. There’s a lot of processes when you’re working by hand. I’ve not given that one a go, but I aim for methods that are just as natural. In some cultures the floor can be the workbench.Īnd the craftman’s toe his means to hold stuff. With hand tools we’re more interested in the flow of our work. When something fast and sharp comes at your work, you want to be certain it wont shift.Ī slip could be bloody and expensive, all within a moment.īut workholding isn’t always measured by an ability to offer a gorilla grip. Some jobs such as engineering and using power tools demand this sort of holding solution. It doesn’t ask if we’d like a bit of assistance, it wants to take things entirely off our hands.Īnd because they’re designed to hold in this rigid way, vices are either holding or they’re failing to hold. (These two locations can be flipped for a left-handed set up, although it’s rarely done.)Ī vice assumes that we need to hold our work still. The second will be at the end of the workbench, on the right. One will be installed on the front of the bench, towards the left. Typically though we can expect to see two vices on a workbench today.
A workbench is only a success if it can keep itself still and provide means to hold your work.Ī woodworking vice is not an essential feature of this.
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