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Adding a leg vise to a cheap Grizzly workbench

Since I cant afford the time or money to make or buy a cabinetmakers workbench I decided to improve the Grizzly bench (H7724) I already had. I already added a plane stop – so the next thing to add is a leg vice. I already had two of these benches in the garage – so I am steeling the vice hardware off of one of the benches to make the leg vice.

The first thing I did was to attach a 2×10 to the leg of the workbench. This will act as the base for me to build out one leg of the bench so it is big enough for a leg vise. I used the plane stop to plane down stock from the lumberyard so it was flat and without twist. Then I roughed up the leg of the workbench and glued the board to the leg. I used woodscrews to help secure the board to the leg.

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Once the glue had dried I came back and glued another flattened 2×10 to the first. The combination should give me a solid foundation for the leg vise. I also made sure to plane down the second board so that it was flush to the edge of the table

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And now to wait for the glue to finish drying…

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