Leg-Vise - Tuning & Handle

Top edge sawn and planed flush

Stuck-in-handle (cut the tip off of a rather new screwdriver) for the distance-board to hold the vise parallel to the leg

the shopmade handle - woodturned ... and didn't forget to stuck it in before gluing the second end piece :-)
I also cut the bottom-end to avoid collecting shavings between the vise and the leg.

Surface-Vise

next feature ... surface vise:

make holes

fix the front-part

turn the back-part to grab the screw

clamp the workpiece

the Veritas holdfast fits the same holes ... perfect

The leg-vise

A heavy 6 cm thick woodslab of ash it is

rough-sawn and starting to plane

the hole for the screw

the hole in the leg ... if the hook moves you are not straight

screwing in the screw ;-)

one advantage of holes in the workbench: a big scew on the underside is no problem :-)

what the f... !!!  surgery for a broken screw

another advantage of holes in the workbench: more clamping possibilities

yeah! ... perfect wedged tenon for the distance-board

the distance-board

what a beauty

what curves, what grain!

perfect fit
(the non-parallel-look of the screw and board is because the weight of the leg and yet no counter-screw)

to do: turning a handle, fitting the counterscrew on the back of the leg, trimming the top-edge

Into the Workshop

Because there's no space in front of the workshop to turn the workbench around the corner, it has to be moved in a vertical position and then to "drop" into the Workshop

ready to drop

outch ... my back

The End is near ...

Cause my wife want's a bedroom with no wood (strange, isn't it?) ... I am working hard on finishing my workbench.

I didn't post the last steps, but they were made:

to fit the legs, they have to be moved in and out, in and out ... sometimes they stick

cutting the tenons ... my bandsaw is too small for this, so handwork

gluing the stretchers ...

... and drawboring them

the two long stretchers ... done

work area ... hard turning around (150 kg?)

removing the split-protection-sheet with fire and power

standing on the feet ... one stretcher to make

Top - upper side finished

At last I finished the Butterflies & Wedges on the upper side of the top.
Skipped one Butterfly cause of another one already there.

Flipped it over and the 16 Butterflies for the down-side are waiting.

A little here and there

Tooth-ache and the cold ... bad combination!

So to do more than nothing I knocked the rest of the wedges in an made one single butterfly. Even this one didn't want to go entirely into his mortise ... bad day.

the unwilling butterlfly on the third block

the second block finished