No I don't mean a bad habit I want to make a vise for working on stocks, mostly inletting, and I need some ideas or photos. Any help would be very much appreciated.

This one is available at Midway for $83. After you spend 15 hours building it you might as well work at McDonalds for 10 hours and buy it.

I use the same vise as above every day.

Chic/Bill, do the jaws on that one swivel freely, or are they loosened and tightened when you get the right angle? I guess the question is, if you move from the butt which is fairly parallel, to the forend which could be a different angle (ok I would not clamp it at either extreme, but you get the idea of the question), do you need to adjust the bolts at the top of the jaws?

And how do you mount it to the bench?

The jaws swivel freely and it bolts from underneath the pedestal . It's a pretty good buy IMO. You might want to add something like hard rubber to the jaws.

Thats perfect and just what I was looking for. I can't believe that as much time as I spend in the Midway cataloge I haven't seen that. OBTW if I built that I'd be working for about a buck an hour! Thanks, I knew ya'll would come through.

Dempsey, thanks! That is the info I needed. Now off to buy one.

Chic,

Thanks for showing this vise. I've been looking for something like this for quite some time.

Roi

If you have a dealers license they are $20 cheaper.

great! Today I find out the vice is $65 at Midway. I just paid $110+tax for one at Woodcraft last week. Yet another brilliant business move on my part

ROFL Marc - uhh dont feel bad. I bought two from Woodcraft.

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Originally posted by Marc_Stokeld:
great! Today I find out the vice is $65 at Midway. I just paid $110+tax for one at Woodcraft last week. Yet another brilliant business move on my part

Mark,

Don’t feel bad, I bought one years ago from NECG and paid almost $300 bucks for it! Although it did come with their totally useless little extension rest assembly that works great for knocking stuff off your bench, or just getting in the way whenever you rotate the vice.

Marc, I don't want to make you feel any worse but the price is $63 and not $65. So there is $2 more down the drain. Oh damn, I am evil.

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Originally posted by Customstox:
Marc, I don't want to make you feel any worse but the price is $63 and not $65. So there is $2 more down the drain. Oh damn, I am evil.

Ah put a hat on.....I can see the glare from here.....

How do you mount it?

There is a long bolt with a big wing nut. You have to drill a hole in your bench for the bolt and thread the wing nut on. Its a 5 minute job.

Thanks.

One other thing.....get some cork or hard felt and glue it to the wooden jaws. Helps with gripping the stock and avoids scratching when working on a stock thats already finished.

Has anyone tried to use one of these on a verticle mill?

I made a set of six inch tall vise jaws for my mill for stock work, it gives my so much free range of set up that i can mill the flat for the grip cap, so the cap fits really flat to its surface.

As far as a stocking vise for the bench I've been thinking about an idea that uses a heinrich
sliding clamp set up, ecentric cam clamp. I think it would be a time saver, faster than always cranking that jaw closed after each position. On a heinrich clamp the handle slides the back jaw on a linear guide and the same handle also serves as a cam clamp for the moveable jaw. I'm going to get myself one and make a swivel base for it for stocking and stocking only.
Timan

Make me one too.......