I just began building your bench when I came across your Deluxe Roubo blog

Two questions
1. could I substitute the Veritas double vice I’ve purchased (which I planned to use as an end vice) for one of the two leg vices?

Would the Veritas recessed vice, with a wide aux. face, suffice as an end vice?

PS I came across an ugly question regarding your source of income. I didn’t bother to read your response but the question reminded me of advice given me years ago

I worked as a special events planner for CA state parks for many years. Virtually all my coworkers envied my success and shunned me.

And yes, I was an outlier when it came to the work ethic of fellow state workers.

I tried every thing I could think of to overcome but had literally no success.

Discouraged, I asked a state park deputy director what else I could try. His two word response was: “F*** ‘em”
I took it to heart and never looked back.

I now give the same advice to you because easily 99% of us are here because you are a professional writer who is an excellent amateur woodworker. That is far better than then the opposite, professional woodworkers who are amateur writers.

As for the 1% of the jamokes out there, don’t post their questions/responses and move on to the next question.. They do not add, at least for me, one iota to the conversation.

Anyway, that’s my story, Chris, and I’m stickin’ with it. (-: