Link to the Veritas vise

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1. Just to clarify, these are not Veritas vises. Lee Valley for the most part reserves the Veritas name for tools that they design and manufacture.

   Lee Valley sells these vises, but they are not manufactured under the Veritas trade name.  Compare these vises to any of the real Veritas vises, such as the Veritas Twin Screw vise, or the Veritas Quick-Release Front Vise, and you’ll see the difference.  On those vises, the Veritas name is clearly identified in the description, the website, and on the vise itself.I’m sure that they are very good vises, nonetheless.

   1. You’re right Wilbur, and thanks for clarification.

      Best regards,

      Paul

2. Battycuss finds out he can add a comment after all! Why is working with hand-tools the only ‘real’ way PAul?
   Am I not a real woodworker, if (For instance) I buy PAR timber and make a step-stool, using hand-tools only?

   1. I am not sure here what or why the question. Who said anyone who buys PAR (Planed all round UK) (timber=wood UK) from any supplier and makes something from it is not a real woodworker? Of course he/she is.
      Secondly,Who said working with hand tools alone is the only ‘real’ way?
      There are facts surrounding this. For instance, as I have said for over two decades and no one can really argue with it. If you use a router and a dovetail jig to guide the router to cut the dovetails, you did not make a dovetail. It was not an evolutionary process that bettered what existed and the dovetails it made not you was not better than can be made by hand. That’s not real woodworking, it’s a substitute that does it for you.
      By process e are at last defining what real woodworking really is. If you use a 5-head power shaper (spindle moulder UK) to mould handrail stock or fascia board for stocking B&Q or Home Depot you are not a woodworker you are a machinist. Scaling that down and setting up six smaller machines in your garage is no different. Your are the button pusher and the pusher and the puller that feeds the machine and that is not real woodworking either. However, using machines to dimension stock for hand work is common sense and no one expects anyone to dig a six foot pit and start slabbing logs into boards. It’s very easy to distort what is being said to bring balance into a world of working wood that has lost real and substantive skill by the distortions brought by machine manufacturing giants.

3. Here here!
   I began working wood in construction using only power tools and have undergone a humbling process of transition to hand tools these last maybe 8 years. I now prefer hand tools for almost every thing. I just bought my first wooden lack plane used and it is wondrous. I love using my hatchet and draw knife to slab up a tree and then plane it into a beautiful shelf or counter top.
   However i do really appreciate my cordless power drill /driver, my orbital sander and my jigsaw, all of which i can run of a small solar power system i can use anywhere there is sun. I think it has to do with the human body and what it is good at. I personally don’t feel good using hand drills, or Yankee drivers for large screws, and the less said about Jab saws the better, and sanding, will i make large things, like gypsy vardos and i like smooth rounded things so it helps alot.
   I chose most all my tools based on feel i guess..
   Anyways, I’m gonna get one of these veritas voices now and install it on the mobile donkey pulled work table in going to be making in Spain in a couple weeks, thanks for the advice…

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