Vises mounted vertical.

[BartW]

Hello;

 

Lately I've been doing a bit of an experiment. I mounted one vise with the spindle vertical;  so I have one fixed jaw horizontal, and a moving jaw going up-down. The picture below will help; it's the left vise. I mounted it next to a nice and heavy post vise.  The workbench is a repurposed table; solid oak; about 200 pounds of it. I fixed it to the rear wall too. I paved the top with Aluminium. 

 

Now I know how to mount a vise; and the left is NOT how they should be mounted. However; given that we're doing lots of cutting and grinding; having a fixed horizontal jaw really helps keeping work steady. In the post vise; it *can* slide out of the jaws towards the ground. However; that usually means you didn't clamp it hard enough.

For the past three courses I've given; I noticed the vertical one actually gets used the most. There's more dust on the floor below it than any other vise. The "normal" vises are used too; for filing, bending things ...general purpose stuff. But when it comes to cutting or grinding ... I kinda prefer the vertical spindle vise.

So my question ... who else mounts at least one vise in their shop like this ?

 

Greetz; Bart

 

 

[Kevin Olson]

I like that idea Bart and I am going to do that my self. 

[ThomasPowers]

I have a cole vise that will rotate from the jaws being horizontal to the jaws being vertical without needing to change the mounting bracket's orientation.  Not quite the orientation you have on that; but it seems to have worked for my uses.

[BartW]

I'd say; we mostly all have several vises; try one like this ? it was an experiment for me too; but I like it a lot so far.

[Kozzy]

Definitely an "Uh..duh" moment on this one....I too have a "spare" bench vise in a corner from upgrading to better and now it's definitely going on the bench sidewise.  I can think of a ton of times that would have made life easier.