A carpenter's vice would be smoking wood shavings. Very bad for the lungs, that.
Carpenters' vise installed, in use:
They do it this way so you can use the whole benchtop to clamp large assemblies together lying on the bench -- handy for building butcher blocks, gluing together big laminated things, etc., by providing pressure against stout pegs elsewhere in the benchtop. In effect, the whole bench becomes a stabler sort of pony-clamp. It's actively holding everything up while you glue it together and let it dry, or do other assembling things that need pieces to stay in place while you work.About Carpenters' Vises, w/illos and a cross section.
Mechanics' or Machinists' vises -- a simple one with no turntable base:
And one with:
Post, or Leg, Vise
The leg side of things goes right next to the edge of the bench, to which that mounting plate bolts. Note it's not a huge hunk of metal; the leg or post standing to the floor is doing the real work. The handle side of it sticks out far enough to really smack you in the hip if you are groping around your shop in the dark."Post" vise seems the best term for the smith's tool; there are other kinds of "leg" vises, generally carpentry again, that make use of the workbench leg, and that's where they live. I guess they do clever stuff; I've never seen one.
And care and feeding of tired old leg vises, and pix.
to Latin for "O Visus!" (handy, I suppose, in speaking to the ghost of an old Roman) to Danish for a song form, to Hungarian...