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We often use the outer edges of the top of our workbench<\/strong> to restrict any movement of a piece of wood being worked on. Let\u2019s go through some handy, practical methods to keep the wood in place. These can all be easily made<\/strong> by you with minimal cost.<\/p>\n The first one is very simple.<\/strong> Sometimes we have a board, thick or thin, that we do not want to clamp down. We just want to stop it from sliding in one direction – for most people, to the left.<\/p>\n On the left side of my bench, I have two small blockers that can be quickly and easily raised for this purpose. The photo above<\/strong>\u00a0shows an example of a piece of beautiful cherry in place. The blockers never get in the way when not in use. They have been part of my bench for a long time.<\/p>\n Here is how I made them:\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n The hardwood pieces are 1\/2\u201d thick x 2 1\/2\u201d long x 1 1\/2\u201d wide. They have a 1\/4\u201d wide slot, about 1 3\/4\u201d long from the bottom. The main, visible screws have large handles, 1 1\/2\u201d in diameter (\u201cstar knob heads\u201d), to make them very easy to use. They are 1\/4\u201d – 20, 1\u201d long. These are very easy to loosen and tighten.<\/p>\n Those handled screws go into slotted set screws. The set screws sit very firmly in their drilled and slightly taped holes. These are centered about 1\u201d from the top surface of the bench and about 6 1\/2\u201d apart.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n We\u2019re all done.<\/strong> This little rig can be used for lots of tasks.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Another nifty tool is coming up in the part 2 post.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We often use the outer edges of the top of our workbench to restrict any movement of a piece of wood being worked on. Let\u2019s go through some handy, practical methods to keep the wood in place. These can all be easily made by you with minimal cost. The first one is very simple. Sometimes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jigs-and-fixtures","category-tools-and-shop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8609","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=8609"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8620,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8609\/revisions\/8620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_2128-636x600.jpeg\")
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