putting new faces over the cast iron vise
going to use some maple i have but i was looking at the oak only because it is so tough
the maple is not hard maple but it is also not soft it is just right and i think it is one of those case where you just happen to have the perfect pieces lying around in other words i got lucky
what do you have on your vise faces
Want some give and compression - the whole idea is to protect and hold in a vise.
I have a gun vice that has inserts that carry foam rubber (high density closed cell) and the other side is AL.
Depends on what you hold and how hard.
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I use Poplar. Strikes me as tough, just soft enough to grip good, hard enough to resist marking, etc. Can't say that I've regretted it, or even paid that much attention to it. Didn't like White Oak - seemed too harsh/hard.
yep why I chose something not too hard so it would not mar the wood i am working on
Red oak. Entire workbench is made from red oak. Never thought about the s oftness of the vise face wood and how it might mar the wood being held. I don't work with balsa wood and cork. I do use some intelligence when turni ng the vise handles to tighten the vise.
red oak is nice choice
i also do not work with blasa or cork i have worked with cork oak
it depends on what is in the vice on occasion i have curvy things that go into the vice and i want to minimize additional sanding i keep some leaather around to protect them too
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