Pp

"PJ"

27/02/2004 2:20 PM

Portable Vise?

I had a co-worker, who knows I'm an "aspiring woodworker", come up to me and
ask if in any of my woodworking magazines I had seen a plan for making a
shop vise "portable". He apparently remembered seeing a plan once in which
some sort of base with wheels was attached to a shop vise so that you could
move the whole unit around on a workbench (which he needs for a specific
purpose). I suspect something like this would be easy enough to make
without plans, but I was curious to know if anyone recalled this type of
plan appearing in a woodworking magazine.

Thanks,
PJ

P.S. I searched for this information on Google, Google Groups (this
newsgroup), as well as "Rick's Magazine Index"
(http://www.rickswoodshopcreations.com/Index/Online_Magazine_Index.asp) but
came up dry in every instance.


This topic has 6 replies

Mi

"Mike in Idaho"

in reply to "PJ" on 27/02/2004 2:20 PM

01/03/2004 9:38 AM

Actually it was from Wood Magazine:

It was called: "best-ever Workshops". What you're looking for is on page
42.

Here's a picture of the project (to see if this was the right one):
http://myweb.cableone.net/mjshelton/files/images/Wood_Mag__Portable_Bench.jpg

I think you can order this issue, check out www.woodonline.com (it was
listed on the front cover).

Mike

"Mike in Idaho" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:OSO%[email protected]...
> Yeah, it was a Popular Woodworking mag I think -- it's sitting on my sink
at
> home. I'll respond when I get home and give you the issue #.
>
> Mike
>

mM

[email protected] (Mike in Idaho)

in reply to "PJ" on 27/02/2004 2:20 PM

01/03/2004 12:44 PM

This might be a duplicate -- I posted it using my news server and it
seems to not be downloading new messages right now so I don't know if
it got out or not. So I'm reposting via google:

Actually it was from Wood Magazine:

It was called: "best-ever Workshops". What you're looking for is on
page 42. It looks like it was a Jan/Feb 2003 issue (I think, it
doesn't say -- just says "Display until Mar 3, 2003" on the UPC code
box).

Here's a picture of the project (to see if this was the right one):
http://myweb.cableone.net/mjshelton/files/images/Wood_Mag__Portable_Bench.jpg

I think you can order this issue, check out www.woodonline.com (it was
listed on the front cover).

Mike


"PJ" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
> Did you ever find the issue?
>
> PJ
>

LL

"Lawrence L'Hote"

in reply to "PJ" on 27/02/2004 2:20 PM

27/02/2004 9:36 PM


"PJ" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> I had a co-worker, who knows I'm an "aspiring woodworker", come up to me
and
> ask if in any of my woodworking magazines I had seen a plan for making a
> shop vise "portable".


I made a leg vise portable by attaching a board(that could be clamped to a
workbench) to the back with a large hinge. It's made from oak pallet
runners.
http://home.mchsi.com/%7Elarrylhote/page2/legvise.jpg

Larry
--
Lawrence L'Hote
Columbia, MO
http://home.mchsi.com/~larrylhote
http://home.mchsi.com/~llhote


Mi

"Mike in Idaho"

in reply to "PJ" on 27/02/2004 2:20 PM

27/02/2004 9:44 PM

Yeah, it was a Popular Woodworking mag I think -- it's sitting on my sink at
home. I'll respond when I get home and give you the issue #.

Mike

"PJ" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> I had a co-worker, who knows I'm an "aspiring woodworker", come up to me
and
> ask if in any of my woodworking magazines I had seen a plan for making a
> shop vise "portable". He apparently remembered seeing a plan once in
which
> some sort of base with wheels was attached to a shop vise so that you
could
> move the whole unit around on a workbench (which he needs for a specific
> purpose).

Pp

"PJ"

in reply to "PJ" on 27/02/2004 2:20 PM

01/03/2004 7:02 AM

Did you ever find the issue?

PJ

"Mike in Idaho" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:OSO%[email protected]...
> Yeah, it was a Popular Woodworking mag I think -- it's sitting on my sink
at
> home. I'll respond when I get home and give you the issue #.
>
> Mike
>
> "PJ" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> > I had a co-worker, who knows I'm an "aspiring woodworker", come up to me
> and
> > ask if in any of my woodworking magazines I had seen a plan for making a
> > shop vise "portable". He apparently remembered seeing a plan once in
> which
> > some sort of base with wheels was attached to a shop vise so that you
> could
> > move the whole unit around on a workbench (which he needs for a specific
> > purpose).
>
>

Pp

"PJ"

in reply to "PJ" on 27/02/2004 2:20 PM

01/03/2004 1:55 PM

Thanks for the picture. I actually have that issue. I'll show it to my
co-worker and see if that's what he was thinking about.

Thanks,
PJ

"Mike in Idaho" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> This might be a duplicate -- I posted it using my news server and it
> seems to not be downloading new messages right now so I don't know if
> it got out or not. So I'm reposting via google:
>
> Actually it was from Wood Magazine:
>
> It was called: "best-ever Workshops". What you're looking for is on
> page 42. It looks like it was a Jan/Feb 2003 issue (I think, it
> doesn't say -- just says "Display until Mar 3, 2003" on the UPC code
> box).
>
> Here's a picture of the project (to see if this was the right one):
>
http://myweb.cableone.net/mjshelton/files/images/Wood_Mag__Portable_Bench.jpg
>
> I think you can order this issue, check out www.woodonline.com (it was
> listed on the front cover).
>
> Mike


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