Leg vise

Homemade Cheese and Cider Press: Here is how I built my own combination cider and cheese press. After a great apple harvest this year, I was inspired to obtain my own cider press. However, after pricing one and seeing that they cost exactly one arm and one leg to purchase I started…

After 19 years of building workbenches and testing workholding devices, I am darn picky about what equipment I have on my benches. In truth, I don’t have a lot of vises on my benches because I prefer…

How many times can you remake something? Originally i was going to include my adventures in vise making, into my blog about my new work bench. But the...

[Updated 11/14/14 with new pictures] While perusing Google Books I ran across an unusual leg vise arrangement on a Nicholson style bench in Farm Woodwork by Louis Michael Roehl, 1919. The leg vise has two angled braces rather than the usual pin bar. The angled braces, along with the screw, form a triangle that rides underneath the top keeping the chop parallel to the leg. As the vise attempts to rack, the downward force pushes the tail of the bracket into the benchtop keeping it level. The…

This simple leg vise is based on a traditional design still favored by many woodworkers. My version is built with inexpensive parts you can buy from any hardware store or home center.

Parallel Leg Vise With St. Andrew's Cross: In woodworking and fabricating, a leg vise can be enormously useful. They offer a large, flat clamping surface on which you can impart a surprising amount of clamping force. A properly aligned leg vise can hold large workpieces su…

Posts about roubo workbench written by Lake Erie Toolworks

My tight finances forced me to devise an alternative to an expensive bench vise. This simple leg vise – cobbled together from a board, a 3⁄4"-diameter pipe clamp, and a short length of 1⁄2"

Angled Leg Vise - Moravian Workbench