cross vice for mortising

[P Crews]

Hi all. Well I thought this was pretty slick and figured I'd share it with you all. I'm in the process of making a small table for the living room. I was at the point of making the test cuts for the mortises. I'm using the delta mortising kit for a drill press and I'm not a huge fan of the fence for it. I have a cross sliding vice that doesn't see much work and thought I would give it try. It turned out to work quite well. It was easy to square the fence to the chisel and all I had to do was turn the wheel and I could make the series of cuts. The jaws of the vice are flat so they didn't mar the wood and there was no slippage. I believe I found a use for that vice instead of collecting dust.

[michaelgarner]

sweet,
I need to pick me up one of those for the Mortise kit I received from Yellowfins.