Review on 🔧 Yost Tools YEV17 End Vise: Enhance your Woodworking Projects with Precision and Stability by Thomas Chalecki

Don't be like me. I'm a beginner carpenter who got into this with the thought "how hard is it?". "YouTube can teach you anything." "It can't be that hard." I'm guilty on that score; but honestly, 90% of the time it's the right attitude. The manufacture of tail vices from such devices accounts for the remaining 10%. I say "make" a tail vise because it's not as easy as "installing" a tail vise. You need to build the core, the chopping block, and you'll probably want to use half-blind dovetails to complete the chopping block. As other reviewers have pointed out, the product does not come with an instruction manual. So if you are a beginner (like me) you need to get creative and look for blogs and posts on how to do this. Maybe that's the best source for me. there was an article by John Leppo from Fine Woodworking 162: Rock Solid Workbench. March/April 2003 (Here is a detailed plan for making and assembling the tail vise.) The specifications of the tail vise used in the FWW article are nearly identical to these vises. Note that the 17" bolt used here is 1" longer than the one used in the article, so you'll need to adjust your plan. But it's pretty easy to set up accordingly. It may not be difficult for an experienced carpenter, but it took me hours to study and plan the rear vise assembly. Hopefully these resources will help shorten research time for some of the other poor newbies who are also suffering from the "it can't be that hard" syndrome.