My 18th Century Workbench in progress 25

November 2014

My final job towards finishing my bench for 2014 was to start building the twin screw vise jaw. I managed to prepare the two beech boards (pictured) by hand a month or so earlier. Thus it had quite some time to settle. Lie-Nielsen provide a very detailed pdf document on how to build the jaw that goes with their hardware. It took some work with the router, a glue-up and Bob’s your Uncle!

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19/1/2015

I decided to take a few pictures to document the state of the bench prior to any work done for 2015.

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2015 started off with some very tricky fitting work in order to get the twin screw vise fitted to the bench. The main reason for this is that I decided to drill holes in my 4″ bench top to accommodate the 2 ACME threaded rods, rather than to cut 2″ deep dados.

The Witpeer breadboard end had to be sawn off flush with the edge of the top before I could even start to fit the vise.

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I did not take too many photos (during installation) as I was too busy swearing and struggling, but here are some pictures of the end result.

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26/1/2015

This weekend I focused on getting the end vise finished.

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Then I made the two handles for the other two vises, using Assegaai and Beech.

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Here are my first shop made Assegaai bench dogs in action.

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