A woodworking vise holds wood for cutting or shaping. It opens and closes to fit different sizes of wood and has flat jaws to avoid damaging the wood. It can be mounted on a workbench or used as a hand clamp.
A woodworking vise is a device used to fix pieces of wood for cutting, shaping, or other types of woodworking. Most modern versions of the woodworking vise are made of metal, although others are made of wood to avoid damaging the wood being worked on when it is compressed by the jaws of the vise. A woodworking vise will open and close to allow different sized wood to be inserted between the jaws of the vise; one jaw is fixed in place, while the other moves in and out on a screw system controlled by a pivoting arm.
The difference between a woodworking vise and other types of vise is subtle, but important: Many vise have jaws with teeth that hold pieces of material more effectively, but a woodworking vise does not have these. teeth. The jaws, on the other hand, have flat surfaces to avoid creating notches in the wood when they are tightened. Jaw surfaces are often quite wide to distribute the clamp load across a wider swath of wood rather than a centralized location, which can risk breaking or otherwise damaging the wood. Some metal woodworking vises have blocks of wood inside the jaws to further prevent the metal from damaging the wood.
Much of the woodworking process is done indoors on a workbench, so a woodworking vise is often designed to mount to a workbench or other solid surface. In some cases, the fixed jaw side of the vise is actually part of the bench and the movable jaw sits flush with the top of the bench. This allows the wood to be secured close to the surface of the woodworking bench for greater stability and ease of use. Other vises are mounted on the bench top or bench side with two jaws independent of the table itself.
Vises are not always mounted on tables or workbenches. Some manual vises have two jaws attached to one or two screws operated by one or more handles, and the jaws can clamp onto one or more pieces of wood. Such clamps are usually used for lighter jobs, as they are less secure than table-mounted vises. Hand clamps can be used, for example, to clamp two pieces of wood together during the gluing process to allow the glue to cure without the pieces of wood moving.
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