Draper 45234 Quick Release Woodworking Bench Vice, 175mm , Blue

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There’s the route I’d take if using a wooden screw, and the alternative. Building With A Wooden Screw These cast vices are popular through many industries so whilst there’s a lot to choose from, they’re not all equal. A woodcraft vice is designed to be used at home. Woodwork vices (for the most part) are heavy-duty, but the woodcraft vice is light-duty. This is because it is lighter in construction than other woodworking vices, and is designed for domestic use instead of industrial or workshop use. It’s possible, but the tooling is drastically expensive once you get to threads of this diameter. And making the tooling is a sod.

I’m not sure if anyone is interested in ways to clean up rusty old vices but I’ve done quite a few so I hope the following helps someone:

Presently, on my personal benches, I have three Woden vises on the two benches at my home workshop and at the Penrhyn Castle workshop, have two personal benches there, I have two Record vises and a Woden vise.

I do have two metalworking vises, so I expected the #57 to be used only for the occasional woodworking I do. However, it turns out that it has now become the vise I use the most, due to its location on the bench and height. Incidentally, the wooden-liner mounting holes in the rear jaw weren’t threaded, so I cut M6 thread in it myself. Not sure if the factory forgot to cut threads or whether doing so was normally left as ‘an exercise for the new owner’. Two weeks ago I found a woodworking vise in a thriftstore, no brand on it, usual blue paint, in a very good condition. Price was good too – equal to that of a Big Mac. All it said on the front jaw was ‘No. 57’ and ‘Made in England’. Sad though to hear yet again of the demise of good Sheffield craftsmanship, which I am acutely aware through living here – just today I heard of a small firm setting up some sort of machine controlled grinder because there was no one left who could hand grind. now we’re looking at the other end of the bench and going through my favourite options when it comes to choosing a face vice. you can never have too many classic 52 1/2 vices 1960s Version VII – the final Record 52 1/2 (1963)My thought about the ‘sawdust excluder plate’ patent was that it was a slightly lame attempt by Record to extend their intellectual property protection over the vice given that their Registered Design was due to expire a few months later in 1933. Our hand threaded wooden vice screws. We’re no longer making these for sale, but there are some alternatives out there. It is ideal when creating a variety of household items as it can be used for clamping wood that is to be filed, glued, painted or crafted. A woodcraft vice can come in use when crafting many wooden objects, for example: It’s better than anything else I’ve used because it’s so worn in. It feels like the vice has limbered up and is always ready to go. Like a lovely worn in engine.