The type of stand (or bench) you mount the vise upon depends on a few key factors,
Only a few niggles have I to adjust to 2020 materials "quality" - or lack-thereof:
- I don't mess with flimsy Schedule 40 when my "local" has far better Schedule 80 settin' right in the next pile. Longer life, corrosion budget loss expected. These goods ain't been comin' outta
US mills for a while, so...
- "pipe" is too often outta China nowadays as well, so 3" is about as small as is worth hauling outta the store for anything benchey.
- 2" nominal lumber is only inch and a half nowadays, forced-growth, matchstick-soft, with annual rings about a quatta hinch apart, so...
Set it on edge, nominal 3" @ 2 1/2" actual. Or deeper-yet. 2" X 6", on-edge, double-spaced, last go.
...Drill for 1/2"-13 allthread every 12", insert drilled spacer blocks where the rods run, counter bore a double set run, front and back edges so the fasteners don't snag stuff, pull 'er up.
Grab yer router or 'letric hand plane and make it right. Adjust if/as/when yah warp it.
Using Red Oak 'stead of pulpwood is a vile cheat, Maple even more so. Go ahead. Sue me... I got me a good lawster on retainer...
Idea is an open-grid - sorta like a wooden version of a welder's table.
Or go ahead and fab a
"real steel" welder's table. Rustificial s**t IS
cheaper than decent wood, after all.
Either way, now yah can drop stops and clamps, chains, allthread and such into or through the azures,
...and/or partially cover with decent plywood or a plate of steel or shiney-wood or conveyor belting or ...granite... or.... whenever a given project needs most but, but, buttt.. temporary-like. NOT permanently attached.
Capital "WORK". Small "bench" is the klew.
Flexible as in use, not flexible as in wobbly.
NB: I think I got some kind of "bug" from G'Dad, Dad.. and two Uncles....
We have this "family curse" of scratch-building clever workbenches... using them... eventually fretting over some detail we cudda, wudda, shudda done some
other way ...figuring "it is TIME NOW" to do BETTER.. giving the bench
away so as to FORCE ourselves to build a BETTER one off the experience.... and the now "pressing need" just created..
....then getting STUCK with no bench AT ALL for an annoying spell
in between those episodes of joy!
Also bumping my bald haid now and then, given the Alzmetall column drill's gen'rus tee-slotted table as been my bestest workbench for a coupla years already.
The goodest news? Hand-crank HEIGHT adjustment! Which has by now
spoilt me for anything lacking of that lovely feature for an Old Fart's bad back..
Only so much yah can do on a triple- 3/4" ACX ply topped Herman Miller Office desk bought cheap from Goodwill...
Asi es la vida...