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Workshop Tip: Improvised vise uses common clamps
Mar 14, 2019
When I’m away from my workshop with a minimal tool kit, I use this improvised vise to hold workpieces tightly for joinery and other tasks. The wide rear jaw can be clamped to a tabletop or screwed to a workbench, and the front jaw is kept in alignment by two F-style clamps, which also provide the clamping pressure.
—Donald Miner, Sturgeon Bay, Wis.
Drawings: Dan Thornton
From Fine Woodworking #274
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One idea can lead to another, Put two boards together and made this tip part of my woodbench tools.
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