looking for a wood vice

[PaPa Smurf]

I'm looking to buy a wood vice to hold my wood...what do i find it...???

[Robson Valley]

Start with the Lee Valley Tools catalog online.

My big pieces are maybe 16" x 24" half logs of cedar for masks.
Chunks of 2x4 screwed right into the bench and strap clamps with eye bolts.

Otherwise, a a piece of a mesh foam rubber cupboard sheet on a sand pillow seems to keep most smaller stuff from jumping around. A couple of BIG C-clamps are handy, too.

[scooter]

I'd look at the Grip-All Jaws device. It'll securely hold anything, at any angle. You don't need to drill a mounting screw into your piece. Comes in different sizes, depending on the type of carving you do. I don't own one, but have used one, and they work quite well. They even did a demo where they clamped a [hollowed-out] egg into it, so tightly that I couldn't pull it out, yet it didn't break.

gripalljaws.com

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[Donsexton]

The strongest and most secure and most versatile way to hold a carving is with a big old machinist vise. Before I get lambasted by others I have a fancy work positioner and bench dogs and bench hooks and more ways to hold a carving than you can shake a gouge at. I still say with over 30 years of carving experience that a big strong machinist vise is the best and most versatile work holder. Allow me to clamp a 2’ live oak log in your holder and pound on it with a 2” gouge with a heavy mallet for hours your positioner will break my old Yost wont.

[Robson Valley]

Donsexton = correct. I forget from time to time that my old Record 8" vise hangs onto 2-3" slabs better than anything.

[CV3]

Not sure what type of wood vise you are asking about. I have had the Rockwell Jawhorse for a few months now and am really happy with it. It is holds just about any thing I need held in place. Form limbs for walking sticks to logs, large boards. I also made a portable carving station for the Jawhorse. You can see it if you look in the forum search under “Jawhorse carving stand” It is very well built and very stable.

[PaPa Smurf]

Originally Posted by CV3

Not sure what type of wood vise you are asking about. I have had the Rockwell Jawhorse for a few months now and am really happy with it. It is holds just about any thing I need held in place. Form limbs for walking sticks to logs, large boards. I also made a portable carving station for the Jawhorse. You can see it if you look in the forum search under “Jawhorse carving stand” It is very well built and very stable.

I sew one and have been thinking about one myself, but they are a little of the high side......I'm trying to learn carving a walking stick's. just didn't know how it works out...I did order the bladerunner from them and I love it..good tool.

just wanting something to the stick, in this month carving magazine there is a work sta. that you set-up and take down...has what I like but, I'm not a builder....but then again...I'm not much of a carving....