Plagiarism is the sincerest form of flattery, or so it is said. In the wood shop it is pretty difficult to come up with a totally new idea, after all man has been making stuff out of wood for thousands of years, think of old Noah, now that was a wood working project. What a person or a company can do is refine, re-design and sometimes market their incarnation of a useful shop accessory.
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| rack stop |
If you subscribe to Lumberjocks.com you have seen versions of the jig, it is used as a spacer on the other side of your bench vise to keep the faces in alignment so that you get equal clamping. I saw a version on Lumberjocks.com made with walnut, it was a work of art. Lee Valley is selling a version made mostly with plastic for $13.00 in their resent catalogue.
I don't like wasting wood, even little pieces and I do hate plastic. My rack stop is make from off cuts, lightly sanded and held together with copper wire with little twisty pig tails at both ends,-cost $0.00. (and a little bit of time, a very little bit) In fact it took longer to type this blog then it did to make the jig.
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