09-23-2015, 08:17 AM
Was interested to see some photos of the kids workbenches in Doug Stowe's classroom recently. I was looking at the vise being used in the photo below, and it looks like the wood inserts were wrapped around the back plate of the vise:
This seems nice in that it gives the user a continuous support surface out along the edge of the bench. If you do this, how do you get a good match? The metal vises I've seen usually have some imperfectioins that would make it difficult to perfectly match the notch for the back plate of the vise.
The alternative is a structure like the vise in the foreground, where the inserts are cut to match the vise faces, with no contact to the workbench itself.
This seems nice in that it gives the user a continuous support surface out along the edge of the bench. If you do this, how do you get a good match? The metal vises I've seen usually have some imperfectioins that would make it difficult to perfectly match the notch for the back plate of the vise.
The alternative is a structure like the vise in the foreground, where the inserts are cut to match the vise faces, with no contact to the workbench itself.