{"id":1884,"date":"2012-09-18T22:38:16","date_gmt":"2012-09-19T03:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/?p=1884"},"modified":"2015-10-13T20:13:42","modified_gmt":"2015-10-14T00:13:42","slug":"accessory-vises-for-the-workbench-tail-vise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/18\/accessory-vises-for-the-workbench-tail-vise\/","title":{"rendered":"Accessory vises for the workbench tail vise"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ulmia used to make a small vise<\/strong> that could, among other uses, be held in the workbench tail vise to hold small or thin work pieces.<\/strong> It is Ulmia model #1812 “Hilfs-Spannstock” (auxiliary vise). [Note: one of the vise jaws is stamped “LSP-2816-4” and the other “LSP-2817-4” but I don’t think those are model numbers.] It can be seen\u00a0in The Fine Art of Cabinetmaking<\/em>, section 3, where the author, James Krenov, discusses Japanese saws (page 145 in my copy, the 1977 Van Nostrand Reinhold hardcover edition). I use two alternatives<\/strong>, neither quite as elegant as the Ulmia, but handy nonetheless since they hold small pieces of wood<\/strong> that would otherwise be problematic to work on.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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The first option is strorebought, quick, easy, and cheap.<\/strong> (How do like it so far?) Pictured above, it is a drill press vise (<\/span>MSC #56451263<\/a>, $21.32), 5″ long, with 1 1\/2″ wide jaws. I <\/span>filed the sides of the moveable jaw<\/strong> so it would move freely when clamped in the tail vise, and replaced the steel jaw faces with very thin <\/span>cork<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/span>It is clamped in the tail vise with the jaws projecting<\/strong> enough above the level of the bench top to securely hold the work piece but below the level of the top surface of the work, so as not to interfere with a plane, chisel, scraper, or other tool.<\/span><\/p>\n

Unlike the Ulmia, the screw feeds through a threaded portion of the base structure, and thus it projects outward as the vise is opened. This is why I chose the 5″ model<\/strong> over the 7 1\/2″ model which, though it has a larger capacity, would tend to get in my way. The Ulmia’s moveable jaw is itself threaded underneath, so the knob remains stationary as the jaw is moved in either direction. There are more expensive precision-made drill press vises available but this one does the job just fine.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Below are some examples\u00a0<\/strong>of what it can hold.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span>The piece of maple in the second photo is less than 1\/8″ thick.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The second option is shop-made,<\/strong> fairly quick and easy, but costs next-to-nothing. (How’s that?) It is simply a 4 1\/2″ x 2 1\/4″ x 1″ block of hardwood with a 3\/8″-deep recess with a 1:7 angled border.<\/strong> It is held in the tail vise with some of the recess projecting above the level of the bench top.<\/strong> A tap on a wedge of the appropriate thickness holds the work piece, tightening further as you push a plane on the work piece. Note the removable spacer,<\/strong> held by a screw, which can expand the width capacity of the vise. [My article in the November 2007 <\/span>Popular Woodworking<\/em> shows this and many other shop-made workbench accessories.]<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0Here it is, set up:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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And, in use:<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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As always,<\/strong> I hope these tips will help you build things in your shop, and<\/strong><\/em> have a great time doing it!<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ulmia used to make a small vise that could, among other uses, be held in the workbench tail vise to hold small or thin work pieces. It is Ulmia model #1812 “Hilfs-Spannstock” (auxiliary vise). [Note: one of the vise jaws is stamped “LSP-2816-4” and the other “LSP-2817-4” but I don’t think those are model numbers.] […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jigs-and-fixtures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1884"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3739,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1884\/revisions\/3739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}