When leg vises are discussed, sometimes the issue of how much of a pain it is to be bending over and resetting the pin all the time is raised. I think that this is not really a concern, as one pin position allows me to clamp boards 4/4 and smaller, which is what I wind up clamping 90% of the time at least.


This week I've been working on a variety of projects, and used my leg vise a lot to edge plane the stock I was milling down to size. Here's a photo of the range of boards I was able to clamp in my leg vise with the pin in a single position in the parallel guide.




Didn't have to stoop even once.