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20% off sale going on right now on just about every kind of vise concievable.

I reckon you'll have to cut and paste the address into your browser

http://www.kbctools.com/content.aspx?file=customerpages/vise917.htm

Luck,

GTC

I like this type, with leather added to the jaw face and a roller stand from Sears to steady things. The jaws will accommodate most of the angles at which I need to clamp the stock without marring the wood. It wont do for small or precise work on metal, though. For that I use lead wrapped jaws on almost any common type of vise. The lead comes from Brownells. Harbor Freight is fine if you find a pattern you like there.


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Lansend,
That looks like the "modern workbench" I built from the $20 Lee Valley plan in 1984.



I don't have much since 1984, but I still have the wife and that woodworking bench, and I am doing gunsmithing on it today.

I made mine from Rock Hard Maple [$2/ board foot in 1984], but I can see by your darker colors you used something else or a mixture.

Clarkm,
Good eye, it is exactly so and I admire your ability to build one. Mine was made in Africa about the same time and given to me by my wife. These benches are very versatile. I keep both vises in use as clamps most of the time or, for instance, use the bench dogs along with C-clamps to hold a stock to the bench to glue and dowel on an ebony for-end tip. Like you, this would be about the last thing I'd part with.

Lansend,
your pic inspired me to mount a vise on a woodworking bench dog.