Homemade Woodworking Bench Vice

Make your own bench vise.

Homemade woodworking bench vice.

This vise hardware requires a shop made outer jaw of 1 1 2 3 thick hardwood with dogholes if you so choose for holding stock with bench dogs. The benchtop s edge or apron typically serves as the inner jaw. In this instructable you can fol. Clamp and go once the vise is assembled clamp it to your bench as required and start sawing.

Red oak acme screw. Wood screws and wood glue will help to keep everything together and a drill and saw should be the only major tools needed to dimension and prep the lumber. A pivoting jaw vise holds irregular shape stock without racking the jaws. This needs to be as strong as possible and slow set epoxy is the only adhesive i trust to do this.

This is the reason that i made this collection for. I need to make this vi. It s a great add on for my roubo workbench in holding those small pieces. There are several vise sets online but i want to build my own one.

Making a homemade quick release woodworking vise. An mdf table surface is added to provide a flat surface that will not warp with humidity changes. Aug 16 2014 found the plans for this in shopnotes. Now don t for one minute think that when i build a bench for my new shop i m going to leave off the vise.

I made the sliding jaw about 1 8 wider than the fixed jaw so that it would register up against the worktable. I built my own workbench and what s still missing is a woodworking vise. In issue 268 which will be coming out next week we have a great collection of workbench tips titled rethinking the workbench. A small woodworking vice is the only addition to this thick framed workbench.

So i have a new planer thicknesser and bandsaw in my workshop. I m moving my workshop from the cellar into the garage to have more space. The jaws of the vise can be made custom to fit your p. I also extended the base past the jaws by 3 on both sides to facilitate clamping.

I can t say enough about how useful this thing is. The nuts are glued into the notches with slow set epoxy. Vises are expensive if you re a beginner you probably know that tools and especially power tools are really expensive why should you buy a vise when you can make your own. The vice is finished and it works fantastic i couldn t be happier.