What is the difference between a bench vise and a woodworker's vice?
- Bench Vise:
- Woodworker’s vise:
They both do (more or less) the same thing, but their applications are different. A bench vise clamps the workpiece between jaws mounted on the vise itself. A woodworker’s vise is mounted at the end of a traditional carpenter’s bench and the top edge of the movable jaw is higher than the surface of the work table. The workpiece is laid upon the bench and a pair of tools called “dogs” are inserted into holes (traditionally square) in the surface of the bench. The workpiece is then clamped between a raised jaw of the vise and the dogs or between the dogs:
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This permits the workpiece to lay flat on the bench so the face of the board can be worked. Most woodworker’s benches have an additional vice that clamps the workpiece between the movable jaw and the face of the bench table; see the blue one to the left in the third photo. That allows the end of the workpiece to be worked. The third photo slows a slightly different design of woodworker’s vise: instead of the end of the jaw being raised, the movable jaw has dog holes in it and a dog is used on both ends of the board.
Traditional carpenter’s benches are now specialty tools; they’re very expensive and only used by those carpenters who prefer traditional tooling. If you’re using power tools, different methods of work holding are employed.
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