Unfortunately gentle reader I'm going to dispense with the third person narrative... It was fun for a bit but getting into the build it makes it a little more cumbersome to write.
Alrighty then... Once I got the stretchers for the legs laid out I moved on to the first of the two vices that I had to install. I purchased both the glide and "slide"
from BenchCrafted and since I was just in the build stage I decided to do as much as I could while I had legs free. The following will deal with how I laid out and cut the "glide".
After coming to terms with the size of my chop (1-3/4 x8xheight) and dealing with the placement of my parallel guide I chopped out the through mortices in both the leg and chop and cut the tenon for the guide. I originally had a fantastic free handed design on the bottom of the chop but realized that because of the bottom roller the parallel guide needs to be flush with the bottom of the chop (was in the BenchCrafted instructions I just missed it)... This in turn caused me to go from a wedged tenon to a pegged tenon which was a big change but was still recoverable.
After I dry fit the parallel guide into the chop I then put the chop through the hole in the leg using a 1/8" spacer.
After ensuring that everything was lined up on center I then clamped the leg and the chop together and removed the parallel guide by pulling it through the mortice in the leg. These were then taken to the drill press where I drilled for the screw clearance holes.
The initial Benchcrafted plans called for a 1-1/2 inch recess to house a washer (I think Jameel has updated it since), unfortunately I didn't measure my washer and it wasn't 1-1/2 inches. Mine was 1-5/8 so I'd suggest measuring your's before you proceed. So, what ended up happening is I drilled the recess, then drilled the clearance hole for the screw but didn't drill all the way through the back, unclamped the two and drilled the rest of the leg from the back.
In order to fix my washer size issue I used a rabbeting bit in a tailed router... and a word to the wise... make sure the F%^K@#G whirling demon is turned off before you plug it in... I'm sure I read that somewhere.
After I drilled and fixed the holes for the vice screw, I lined up the front flange with a center line drawn earlier and marked the locations of the two screws that hold the flange inplace.
After the holes were drilled and tapped the screw and parallel guide (with the spacer in place) were put through the leg in order to line up the nut plate. I pretty much followed the BenchCrafted instructions for this point and they are very, very good. I didn't however flush mount my nut plate.
As an aside, if you've never tapped a hole in wood, get out there and give it a go. Fun, and alot stronger then I would've anticipated. I picked up a tap and die set from Canadian Tire a couple of months ago, for those Canadians out there these sets seem to go on sale every two months or so and are like 80% off...
After mounting the nut plate, the "build the roller holder" fun began.