Vertical Workholding?

[LiamN (Liam Newcombe)]

Here’s a post where I described what I liked and didn’t like about my first attempt at vertical workholding, there’s some mistakes you can avoid

Mod Questions for my XXL Table

The two issues with that are maintaining the rigid stable alignment of the shapeoko rails and keeing the workpiece mounting rigid and trammed with the machine as you move it. You’d need to properly constrain the moving table in X and Y as well as the Z with the leadscrews, like a lifting knee on an old Bridgeport. That’s quite a bit of engineering to get right as you’re basically adding another axis. That said, I’d like to see it if you build it. If you mean the vertical fixture jig, there’s …