I was looking around and found this site and their work bench vice. The
short videos are wonderful.
Enjoy!
Glide Leg Vise
http://www.benchcrafted.com/videos/benchcraftedglide.wmv
Roubo Bench and a little handy plane work. ;~)
http://www.benchcrafted.com/videos/roubo.wmv
Wagon Vise
http://www.benchcrafted.com/videos/benchcraftedtailvise.wmv
"Leon" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>I was looking around and found this site and their work bench vice. The
>short videos are wonderful.
>
> Enjoy!
>
> Glide Leg Vise
> http://www.benchcrafted.com/videos/benchcraftedglide.wmv
>
> Roubo Bench and a little handy plane work. ;~)
> http://www.benchcrafted.com/videos/roubo.wmv
>
> Wagon Vise
> http://www.benchcrafted.com/videos/benchcraftedtailvise.wmv
>
>
After witnessing this high quality tool porn, both my bench and myself feel
SOOOOOOOOOOOOO inadequate.
This is good stuff. Veritas style innovation and a wonderful update of some
old woodworking technology.
And the videos are good too. Just music and tool/product demo. AND NO
TALKING!! Other companies and marketing folks could learn from this fine
example.
Good one Leon. This is definitely filed away for that dream bench project.
On Oct 29, 9:56=A0pm, Larry Jaques <novalidaddress@di\/ersify.com>
wrote:
> On Sun, 30 Aug 2009 12:41:10 -0500, the infamous "Leon"
> <[email protected]> scrawled the following:
>
> >I was looking around and found this site and their work bench vice. =A0T=
he
> >short videos are wonderful.
>
> >Enjoy!
>
> >Glide Leg Vise
> >http://www.benchcrafted.com/videos/benchcraftedglide.wmv
>
> '20s video and cowboy audio to sell bench vises?!?
> (Nice vice, though.)
>
> >Roubo Bench =A0and a little handy plane work. =A0;~)
> >http://www.benchcrafted.com/videos/roubo.wmv
>
> Ahhhhhhh! =A0Neander Heaven. =A0I almost cccame with the sound of that #8=
.
> Eat your heart out, Paddy, wherever you are! <vbg> =A0Normites just
> don't get that "scritch, scritch, scritch" sound, do they?
That's my favorite part in the movie Witness - where Harrison Ford is
planing an edge and the sound of the plane is some sweet thing. I
found out later that he was discovered while working as a carpenter.
I wonder if he had any input on the planing scene. It's something
only a carpenter would understand, but it's totally necessary.
Oh, and I liked Kelly McGillis' chest. :)
R
On Aug 30, 2:50=A0pm, "Lee Michaels" <leemichaels*[email protected]>
wrote:
> "Leon" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>
> news:[email protected]...>I was looking aroun=
d and found this site and their work bench vice. =A0The
> >short videos are wonderful.
>
> > Enjoy!
>
> > Glide Leg Vise
> >http://www.benchcrafted.com/videos/benchcraftedglide.wmv
>
> > Roubo Bench =A0and a little handy plane work. =A0;~)
> >http://www.benchcrafted.com/videos/roubo.wmv
>
> > Wagon Vise
> >http://www.benchcrafted.com/videos/benchcraftedtailvise.wmv
>
> After witnessing this high quality tool porn, both my bench and myself fe=
el
> SOOOOOOOOOOOOO inadequate.
>
> This is good stuff. =A0Veritas style innovation and a wonderful update of=
some
> old woodworking technology.
>
> And the videos are good too. Just music and tool/product demo. =A0AND NO
> TALKING!! =A0Other companies and marketing folks could learn from this fi=
ne
> example.
>
> Good one Leon. This is definitely filed away for that dream bench project=
.
I'm in complete agreement: play some friendly tune, shut up and let
the tool do the talking.
Even though I am about as far removed from the Neanderthal woodworker
as it gets, I now want one of those. <G>
I guess that is why they call it porn.
Tip-O-The-Hat to Leon for finding that. It went well with my
coffee.... FINALLY real coffee after more than a week out in the
cottage.
Leon wrote:
> I was looking around and found this site and their work bench vice. The
> short videos are wonderful.
>
> Enjoy!
>
> Glide Leg Vise
> http://www.benchcrafted.com/videos/benchcraftedglide.wmv
>
> Roubo Bench and a little handy plane work. ;~)
> http://www.benchcrafted.com/videos/roubo.wmv
>
> Wagon Vise
> http://www.benchcrafted.com/videos/benchcraftedtailvise.wmv
Tomorrow's my anniversary; I'm thinking the wife and I should grab a
couple of cold Shiners and watch these videos together. I can't think
of a more romantic thing for us to do...
--
"Even if your wife is happy but you're unhappy, you're still happier
than you'd be if you were happy and your wife was unhappy." - Red Green
To reply, eat the taco.
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"Leon" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>I was looking around and found this site and their work bench vice. The
>short videos are wonderful.
>
> Enjoy!
>
> Glide Leg Vise
> http://www.benchcrafted.com/videos/benchcraftedglide.wmv
>
> Roubo Bench and a little handy plane work. ;~)
> http://www.benchcrafted.com/videos/roubo.wmv
>
> Wagon Vise
> http://www.benchcrafted.com/videos/benchcraftedtailvise.wmv
Very nice. But pricey. I wondered some time ago about making a wagon wheel
vise from cheapie parts such as from
http://www.woodcraft.com/Family/2004875/2004875.aspx?tab=information#information.
MSC lists 3' long lengths of Acme threaded rod for $40; heavy duty hex nut
for $10; 10" handwheels from $40 to $100+, depending on finish. A couple of
rollerblade wheels and some assorted hardware rounds out the the leg vise.
It helps if you have a metal lathe to turn down the rod ends and bore the
handwheel.
The significant difference is the parallel guide and its support rollers. I
imagine you can backfit rollers onto any old leg vise and get similarly good
results. Rollerblade wheels are dirt cheap (almost), at $6 each with ABEC5
bearings.
With all that said, just the raw parts adds up to about $150, and still
needs some non-trivial machining on the handwheel and threaded rod and nut.
Maybe a packaged solution for $350 isn't so completely horrible. Galooting
sure isn't cheap.
On Sun, 30 Aug 2009 12:41:10 -0500, the infamous "Leon"
<[email protected]> scrawled the following:
>I was looking around and found this site and their work bench vice. The
>short videos are wonderful.
>
>Enjoy!
>
>Glide Leg Vise
>http://www.benchcrafted.com/videos/benchcraftedglide.wmv
'20s video and cowboy audio to sell bench vises?!?
(Nice vice, though.)
>Roubo Bench and a little handy plane work. ;~)
>http://www.benchcrafted.com/videos/roubo.wmv
Ahhhhhhh! Neander Heaven. I almost cccame with the sound of that #8.
Eat your heart out, Paddy, wherever you are! <vbg> Normites just
don't get that "scritch, scritch, scritch" sound, do they?
Condolences. Dat ol' Franchman had a good bench design, oui?
>Wagon Vise
>http://www.benchcrafted.com/videos/benchcraftedtailvise.wmv
_Somebody_ has a new toy. <g> Can anyone here compare it to the Lee
Valley vises?
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