Lessons Learned from a Vise-less Workbench

We all have our vices. Some of us even have vises. Back in 2017 I built an English pattern workbench whose design had no vises at all. It relies on bench dogs, holdfasts, and battens for all its work holding. Since then working on that vise-less workbench has taught me a lot, improved my hand planing technique, and made all of my woodworking a lot more efficient. Today I present some of the lessons I have learned working without vises at my workbench.

This workbench was the cornerstone project of the Orientation Semester in The Hand Tool School. The build videos and plans for the bench is sold separately but also as part of the entire semester where 3 other projects are built that will help you get started in woodworking. More details can be found on The Hand Tool School website here: https://www.handtoolschool.net/produc...
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