Benchcrafted HiVise Mounting Screw

Product Description

The mounting screw is designed for the HiVise to make it ultimately more portable. The HiVise can be made with either a tail vice cleat or a benchtop batten, but having a mounting screw will allow you to use it in multiple positions around your bench, or anywhere outside the workshop where you are allowed to make a mess!

Anticipating the varied needs of woodworkers Benchcrafted designed the HiVise to work in a wide variety of mounting applications. The basic Hi Vise can be built with a batten that attaches to the back of the leg. This batten can be held to your work surface with a pair of simple clamps, or with two holdfasts. If your bench is outfitted with the Benchcrafted Tail Vice, you can build the HiVise with an integral cleat that slips down into the jaws of the Tail Vice and is held firmly in position. Mounting and dismounting the HiVise here is extremely quick, just a few seconds and you’re there. Building the version with the Mounting Screw allows it to be mounted to virtually any surface as thick as a monolithic workbench top all the way down to 3/4″ banquet tables. It can also be mounted to a saw bench for seated, close work, or as quick shavehorse. The swivel pad on the mounting screw features a friction pad that, along with strips of Crubber under the upper arms provides a tenacious grip with the work surface. A fourth version is so simple they didn’t bother writing about it in the instructions. Build the basic vice without the cleat or batten, and simply hold the leg in a traditional moving-block tail vice. The advantage of this method is instant height adjustability. You can also use this naked version of the vice flat on the benchtop, like an over-built handscrew clamp.

Fully machined from steel components – wood not included – Designed and made in the USA

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