How to not leave marks on wood when using a Vice.

Hi
In this simple instructable I am going to show you how to not leave marks on wood when using a vice. Have you ever been working on a fragile piece of wood and held it down with a vice and then removed and noticed vice marks on it. Well I am going to show you how to prevent this from happening.

Step 1 Materials/Tools

Materials/Tools
1. Vice
2. Towel/ Shop Rag- anything that will fit in your vice.
3. Nice piece of wood or any material that you don't want to get marked up.

Comments

[dontno]

One of the the things I used in the past is a old mouse pad. Then one day I had some time on my hands and made a set of removable vice jaws out of 3/8 inch scrap pine.

[thingygoboom]

Personally, I prefer to cut a piece of softwood like jack8559 and glue them on there for a month or two. The wood deforms a tiny bit to the work and makes it much easier to hold. Of course, I usually work in metal and plastic when I'm using a metal vice.

[jack8559]

Using a couple zip ties, you could also tie a piece of wood to each vise jaw and eliminate marks and still have a reasonably good grip on your workpiece. The wood, if rough cut will have a large coefficient of friction making it grip well. Use soft woods if using rough cut wood for the "false jaws".

[Kayjay]

I usually just wrap a shop towel around the wood ( basically just super thick paper towel)

[Scott_Tx]

It's a vice to leave marks on wood with your vise

[GorillazMiko]

Very simple Instructable. I have something like this at home, and I always do this, good job, and thanks for bringing it here onto Instructables.

[joejoerowley]

Thanks, it is really simple and I figured most people know how to do this but some don't so I decided to show a few people how to do it at least.