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I like to situate mine so that I can clamp a long piece in it on either side. Obviously not everyone has the luxury of that much space.
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I have been umming over this for a year, I figured that base allows for pegs/bolts and therefore a couple of positionsstations could be accommodated.
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For a wood working work bench you generally put the vise on the side you normally plane towards. Only vise I Have that is anything like yours is freestanding for blacksmithing.
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Right handedness probably isn't much of a consideration with an engineering type vise?
Personally I'd avoid 4/5 from the left as it looks like there is limited space, which might be an issue with a long workpiece.
Back in the 1980s there were a lot of 'conversions' of school woodwork benches to mixed material CDT by bolting an engineering vise to each end. It didn't seem to be a problem for either left or right handed students, but having a wall or cupboard (or another pupil) in the way was more of a problem.
Fitting wood vises to metalwork benches was more problematic, but assuming 1/4 of students were left handed seemed to work given 1/2 were equally useless with either hand... -
I'm wondering about setting some threaded inserts into the bench so that the vice can be removed like this:
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Trying to figure out the best spot for the vice is. I'm right handed and it has a swivel base.
Two spots are the left hand corner or 4/5ths of the way along to the right. I'm probably just overthinking things but a man needs a hobby. The corner would give me more options on where to stand but just have the feeling it would also be in the way more.
Is there anything to consider or a general rule I'm not aware of?
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