Early Access Video: How to Pick a Vise
Added 2022-02-12 12:00:04 +0000 UTCFriends:
I get a lot of questions about vises. My answer used to be simple: "buy vintage or forget it." Back when I started, all the affordable vises were just garbage. Thankfully, that's no longer true and you can now buy a very respectable vise for well under $100.
But which one should you buy? What size? Do you need quick-release?
It's still not an easy purchase, but I've made a video to help you choose.
Happy Saturday!
--Rex
Comments
Yo Rex. I think the $30 dollar bench needs a pipe clamp moxen style vise??? I think this is going to be my first vise.
Jamie Cowan
2022-02-18 20:18:10 +0000 UTCAh, OK. Thank you for clarifying for me. I have watched it now and it was another great video. Thank you for making the content you create.
Eric Peery
2022-02-18 14:49:06 +0000 UTCThank you! I'm glad to help.
Rex Krueger
2022-02-18 14:22:01 +0000 UTCYou can't watch the video during the permiere period. It's just a few hours on the day it comes out.
Rex Krueger
2022-02-18 14:21:00 +0000 UTCNot sure if this is a bug or as expected on the day of release, but I'm trying to watch this video on my lunch break but the video won't play and I just get a "Premiers in 106 minutes" message even though I'm at the "Partner" level
Eric Peery
2022-02-16 17:44:39 +0000 UTCWhat is the shortcoming for dovetail work? I thought it would be one of the benefits of an angled leg vice since you can clamp longer boards vertically.
Eric Peery
2022-02-16 17:41:58 +0000 UTCI thought I would offer some ideas of ways to acquire basically unlimited supplies of free wood, mainly for smaller projects. And no, it does not involve thievery. :-) Many businesses receive shipments of products and supplies on wood pallets, and sometime they throw those pallets away. I have an arrangement with a local business to pick up their unwanted pallets for free. Our local community theater puts on several plays each year, and when they strike their sets, they end up with all sorts of unwanted boards, luan paneling, etc, which I cart away for free for them. Also, I have a friend who owns a LARGE stand of hardwood trees in Ashtabula county and he has said I can have as much wood as I can cart away. Also, I invested in a couple of chainsaws and a bandsaw which I use to slice and dice downed trees after storms as a service to my neighbors. Then there is always dumpster diving, visiting construction site for discarded materials, and house demolition projects where they are simply throwing the materials away. On the night before trash day during pleasant weather, I cruise the the neighborhood for materials being thrown out. With all of these sources of free wood, I have been able to avoid buying much of any wood from a store for quite some time. My main problem is finding space to store it all. :-)
Ed Smeltz
2022-02-15 20:41:08 +0000 UTCRex, I really enjoyed hearing your thoughts on our current state of materials and tools, and I totally agree with all the points you made. You did a good job putting everything in context and making sense of what I have been seeing.
Ed Smeltz
2022-02-15 20:27:42 +0000 UTCLesson learned and paid for but made it work. I am gonna have to figure out a placement on my main bench for a leg bench, the smaller wood work bench I built is based on one made by Patrick Sullivan, little table top thing.
Solia
2022-02-14 14:54:59 +0000 UTCThanks for being here and making these videos possible!
Rex Krueger
2022-02-14 12:59:29 +0000 UTCYou've never had more choices than you do right now!
Rex Krueger
2022-02-14 12:59:11 +0000 UTCJohn, you just need to click through to YouTube. The description is there with all the links. When I refer to the description, I'm always talking about the YouTube video, not Patreon.
Rex Krueger
2022-02-14 12:58:51 +0000 UTCAngled makes it a bit better for sawing joinery, but the leg vise will always be only okay as a joinery vise. It works very well for tenons, but only okay for dovetails.
Rex Krueger
2022-02-14 12:58:02 +0000 UTCHe picked it up last week! Whatever am I going to do with the empty space?
Rex Krueger
2022-02-14 12:56:50 +0000 UTCI think you'll be really happy with it!
Rex Krueger
2022-02-14 12:56:20 +0000 UTCIt's hard to believe, but there is such a thing as TOO big in vises. There's certainly a point where it gets too big to be practical or even enjoyable to use. I find wooden vises (like the leg vise you suggest) can be really big and still be useful.
Rex Krueger
2022-02-14 12:56:01 +0000 UTCMy pleasure! Thanks for helping to make these videos possible!
Rex Krueger
2022-02-14 12:53:22 +0000 UTCI just looked that up and you're right! That's a lot of vise for the money.
Rex Krueger
2022-02-14 12:53:01 +0000 UTCEspecially since the vintage ones are getting pricey!
Rex Krueger
2022-02-14 12:51:26 +0000 UTCI admit, I'm very happy with both of the vises I've shown in this video. I wasn't expecting much, but they're both really nice.
Rex Krueger
2022-02-14 12:49:50 +0000 UTCLook up Yost vise on Amazon...that will get it to you. I have the 9" quick release...beefy. I also have the 10" front vise, but I use the 9" more.
Steve Jones
2022-02-13 02:46:23 +0000 UTCThank you Rex for making my Saturday afternoon complete. Good advice on both vises and work holding.
Matt Evans-Koch
2022-02-13 00:51:39 +0000 UTCTimely for me...I am in the market currently.
Tim Costello
2022-02-12 22:05:42 +0000 UTC"Links down in the Description". Guess I have to wait till release on YouTube. And practice patience. Another great video. Thanks
John Morrison
2022-02-12 18:57:57 +0000 UTCThe topic of vises for planning what would be the best choice for the work bench I plan to build has been one of those confusing decisions. This video has helped me with my decision. I do need to go back and review the video builds on making a leg vise. I pretty much have decided on that type of vise as my front vise just have to decide on building it in a vertical position or angled. Thanks as always for your videos and the topics you cover.
Jeff Hill
2022-02-12 16:45:26 +0000 UTCYou ever going let Nate have his work bench? ;-)
Richard C von Brecht
2022-02-12 16:05:17 +0000 UTCGreat video! I've been using that very same face vice for a while and love it. Great to know that you have the same model, now I feel like I made a good choice.
Reggie Young
2022-02-12 16:00:07 +0000 UTCI believe it was sometime last year, I bought this 10 inch Columbian Vice with a built in dog peg. It looked smaller in the pictures when buying it.. getting this 30+ pound behemoth made me realize next time I will go by the dimensions and ask questions before buying another vice. That Monster got mounted to the bench I built about 6 months ago, I mounted it in a weird space, in the middle of the "L" of my bench. I thought of it to robust and massive for anything I can think of so I bought a smaller face vice for my smaller wood working bench and using that thing as a way to temporary mount tools to the bench and put them away when i am done. My space is small, so efficiency of space management became a priority. My smaller bench has a 6 inch Face vice that is on the tail end, that thing is what I been using for wood working and its been great for smaller projects but eventually i will need to build a leg vice or something for larger items.
Solia
2022-02-12 15:58:23 +0000 UTCI can't resist...(dad joke alert). We all have our vices!!!! Thanks for another great video Rex.
John Hiemstra
2022-02-12 14:35:10 +0000 UTCFYI - Woodcraft has their economy quick-release front vise on sale for $70 this month. I have it as the tail vise on my Roubo and it works very well. I had the Yost 9" on my first bench for the face vise and it was reliable, but I found a Record 52 1/2 on Marketplace for $100 and it is a huge step up with the quick release.
Hal Songer
2022-02-12 13:41:35 +0000 UTCGood to know about the improvement on the import vices.
Rick Prosser
2022-02-12 13:19:20 +0000 UTCGreat Video Rex! I've seen ads for these vices but wasn't sure if they were good or not.
Paul Ballmann
2022-02-12 13:07:01 +0000 UTC
