Homemade Tail Vice

My Premier Project Plans: My Free Plans: After deciding to make a homemade tail vice, I started doing research and I came across the HNT Gordon tail vice. Man, that is a beautiful vice! I decided I was going to try to make something similar but obviously not as stunning. I always look out for anything with threads that could be handy and I picked up a $4 car jack from the oppy for this project. Other than that I used scraps that I had at hand. The only downside is the screw turns anti clockwise to clamp the workpiece rather than clockwise, I didn’t think about this until halfway through the project. Ideally a left hand thread would have been nice. Although I’ve found that I’m using the vice from the front of the workbench where I’m working on my workpiece, so I’m not looking directly at the end of the knob, making a clockwise/anti clockwise motion less obvious. The knob is more of a roller