Homemade Tail Vice

My Premier Project Plans: My Free Plans: After deciding to make a homemade tail vice, I started doing research and I came across the HNT Gordon tail vice. Man, that is a beautiful vice I decided I was going to try to make something similar but obviously not as stunning. I always look out for anything with threads that could be handy and I picked up a 4 car jack from the oppy for this project. Other than that I used scraps that I had at hand. The only downside is the screw turns anti clockwise to clamp the workpiece rather than clockwise, I didn t think about this until halfway through the project. Ideally a left hand thread would have been nice. Although I ve found that I m using the vice from the front of the workbench where I m working on my workpiece, so I m not looking directly at the end of the knob, making a clockwise, anti clockwise motion less obvious. The knob is more of a roller