Popular Woodworking 2006-02 № 153, страница 25

Extend Your Bench

I recently built a new workbench with a fairly typical face vise and tail vise arrangement. However, due to the small size of my shop, the bench is only 5' long. While that is sufficient to handle most boards I work with, I occasionally need to secure a longer board for face planing. For those cases, I made this jig to extend the clamping capacity of my tail vise.

Constructed from 2 x 4 scrap, the L-shaped jig includes a ³/4"-diameter plumbing flange screwed to the short leg. With the long leg of

Screw ³/4" plumbing flange to the short leg

the jig clamped into my face vise, the plumbing flange aligns with the row of dog holes in the bench top. The clamped leg is a bit longer than the width of the face vise jaws to prevent racking.

To use the jig, I remove the fixed clamp head from a ³/4" pipe clamp, and screw the pipe into the flange. The sliding clamp jaw on the pipe serves as a dog extended off the

end of the bench, and allows clamping of long boards using the tail vise at the opposite end. I have found that an 18" length of pipe serves my purposes. If I ever need to attach a longer pipe, I plan to support it at its end with a roller stand to keep the assembly from sagging.

Steven Sampson Wilbraham, Massachusetts continued on page 24

Sliding clamp acts as an extended bench dog

Board is held at opposite end by tail vise

Screw 18" length of pipe into the flange

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