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132704 Clif Palmberg <myemailnameisthis@y...> 2004‑04‑27 Re: Bio and project completion
>Absolutely beautiful, Clif.   Did you have much trouble fitting the 
>the tail vise. What hardware did you use?

The tail vise wasn't too bad to fit. Before the apron, before the three rows of
1" wood I glued on for the dogholes, I very carefully made sure the entire
length the front edge of the bench was square to the top. After that, using the
top as a reference, I used my 55 (actually, my great-grandfather who settled
the fam in Kansas' 55) to plough a 1/2" thick and 1/2" deep slot in the edge of
the bench. Not changing any settings, I did this to the apron. 
>From there, built up the dog holes, carefully glued on the apron and attached
the endcap (held by dovetails in the apron, tongue and groove in the end of the
bench and two bolts with captured nuts). I made the vise jaw taller than
needed, and planed it down. 
Hardware - the vise runs on a pair of cocobolo slides - naturally oily and
sturdy. Where the wood contacts has beeswax coatings. The acutal screw is the
shoulder vise screw from lee valley. That made the setup about $30.
(Technically, the screw was a christmas present - thanks Scott!) 
If I need to take out the jaw, I remove four screws from the bottom, and
removed the slides from the bottom. 

I've got pictures of the whole process I can post if anyone's interested.
They're shot with my palm pilot and not the highest quality, but you can see
how it all works.

>If you need a place nearby to store it for a
>few (or more) years, let me know.  I would be willing to move my current
>bench out into the rain to make room for it.  :-)

If you can single-handedly move it out of my garage and into the back of the
truck, maybe. On second thought, Galoots are pretty resourceful folks and you'd
probably pull up with some sort of sliding dovetail contraption based off of a
pole drill to lift it. I'll have to pass on the offer. :)

-Clif in Dallas, TX

	
		
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