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Title: Vice bench
Post by: lastvautour on December 02, 2015, 08:07:57 PM
I relocated my bench and found that placing it on the center supporting wall of the house caused a problem with transference of sound. My puppy hears or feels the vibrations and barks like heck when I used the hand planer to work on the Liberator fuselage. The answer was to relocate just the vice to its own little bench resting against the outside foundation. The result while chiseling the wing was no more barking as the noise/vibration is absorbed by the cement.

Lou
Title: Re: Vice bench
Post by: Oceaneer99 on December 03, 2015, 06:32:25 AM
Lou, that's an interesting workbench concept.  It would also be useful for someone who has limited space or who has to do their carving in a room normally used for another purpose.

Garet
Title: Re: Vice bench
Post by: lastvautour on December 03, 2015, 10:09:27 AM
It is portable and just screwed together with whatever was handy. The wedges are leftovers from the porch roof construction, the vertical and horizontal pressure treated pieces were leftovers from the landscaping boxes I made this past spring and the 2 X 4 was just in the garage and needed two inches chopped off to fit. The bottom pieces to provide lateral stability came from the front of my neighbour's kitchen drawer and a recycled shelf. Deck screws holds everything together.

Lou
Title: Re: Vice bench
Post by: Jim on December 03, 2015, 09:30:34 PM
Wow! I knew model-building could be time-consuming and expensive, but I never would have thought it could be considered a "vice"... ;)

jim
Title: Re: Vice bench
Post by: lastvautour on December 04, 2015, 12:03:32 AM
It is my only vice.

Lou