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I would call them and ask them the clearance/overhang required for that vise. I know that when I checked I did not have enough overhang for that on my Schwarz/German-style bench. They are difficult to retro-fit as well. They may have a full-scale layout available for planning your installation. Just ask. They are helpful.
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There's one on my joinery bench.
It's 4" from the leg. Total overhand is under 24".
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If you've never used a sliding tail vise before, on another bench
I would urge you to reconsider the choice.
Mine is the LEAST used vise in my shop.
I have a removable central batten in my planing bench that allows me
to hold most anything in place, without clamping it down.
The sliding leg vise is a fixture that is use primarily to hold long
planks flat on a joinery bench. It can also be used to pinch odd shapes in the opening (which can be handy) or to pull assemblies
apart.
In my opinon, the same basic features of a sliding leg vise
can be emulated with holdfasts and battens - at lower expense
and without the annual 2 weeks where humidity renders it immobile.
(That's now, for me - probably until Labor Day.
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Andre Roubo illustrates maybe a dozen benches in his work. There are three types of leg joinery: 1. the through tenons of Plate 11, 2. tenons that go to about an inch and a half from the top and are visible from the front surface, and 3. hidden tenons. Of all the benches, only the German bench has a tail vise.
The German bench has the second type of joinery. I think this is better than what you planned because with a through tenon you have a short piece of the top that is not well connected to anything. A heavy blow could break it off. Note that the dog holes are on either side of the leg and should figure in your planning.
Here is Plate 279
Warren