free non-quick-release vice vs. non-free quick-release vise
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31 January 2014 at 4:41 am #26917
Thanks everyone for your input and recommendations.
I have found each and every post instructive. As far as I’m
concerned my main questions/doubts have been answered quite thoroughly.Before leaving the topic, I’d just like to comment that while I think unnecessary risks should be avoided, there exists also the risk of approaching things with an overabundance of caution, IMHO. This can lead to hampered growth and learning, stifle creativity, or to just not getting things done. I think the issue comes down to a balancing act between the two.
Some may disagree with what I have just written, and if so, maybe
the discussion should have its own thread located in the off-topic area.Again, thank you again for taking the time. You are what makes this site
a great place to be.Carlos-
I was just watching Paul work on the current bookcase project, and thought of your dilemma.
Paul uses his vise to secure a boards’s width for a lot of operations (dovetailing, dados, surface planing). For dados, he uses his bench top for knife work and vertical chopping, but transfers the work to the vise for paring. He alternates quite frequently, and each time he returns to the bench (usually over the leg for chopping), he closes his QR vise so it is not in the way.
If you wanted to emulate Paul’s procedure to the letter, then I think a non-QR vise would become pretty tedious to use. However, in the same episode, Paul also shows that you can use a clamp (a holdfast would also work) to do the same work on the bench instead of bringing it back to the vise.
I personally think you should use the Wilcox, but you will probably will not be using the vise as much as Paul does if you wish to maintain efficiency.
I have a QR vise and am glad I don’t have to think about this. Inconvenience going in and out of the vise is a temptation to take a shortcut. On the other hand, people used screw vises for centuries. I don’t think installing your Wilcox vise has to be a lifetime decision and think you can change to a different vise if you do not like it after all. I also think that $150 for a 10″ Eclipse vise from Woodcraft of similarly for a vise from Lee Valley isn’t very much for a lifetime tool, especially when compared to the cost for wood for a table, case, or other project. One thing I am certain of is that, if I were buying a vise for myself (not having an option to use something on hand), it absolutely would be a QR vise as a firm requirement.
9 December 2014 at 9:05 pm #122026Well I do feel very fortunate I bought a quick release Paramore 152…10″ vice with 10″ opening and dog PLUS another, Record 52 1/2 first had not been used record cleaned up and painted now. Both work superbly.
FOR 99pence on eBay …..what a bargain even Mr Sellers himself was impressed.
I HAVE THEM MOUNTED ON MY NEW 3″ top bench 6′-0″ apart AMAZING
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