Reply To: Tool Request
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By the way, if you put your vise in the “normal” place (at the left), are right handed, and want a planing stop sort of like what I do with the vise-at-the-end, you can make a simple appliance. See the photo here:
A copy of the image (not mine, but taken from photobucket) is attached.
Note the brass bench dog that is supporting the stop near the *middle* of the bench. I’ve not made one of these, so I’m not sure if it is absolutely needed. You could also make the stop long enough to reach all the way across the bench and put a clamp at the far edge of the bench. Understand, though, that for thicker stock you tilt this stop in the vise to give more to push against, so the clamp wouldn’t be applied directly to the stop, but just to the bench for the stop to bear against.
I hope it is clear from the photo that this stop is just a big “L” with one leg in the vise and the other on the bench (to serve as the stop).
Bottom line: If you’re right handed, have the main vise toward the left, and want a planing stop to work on the bench top, you can make one very easily.