Continued working on the two pieces that cost me a bench vice trying to open the angle to 95 degrees. I have not finished these pieces yet but I am close, only a little bit of final finishing remains. I also installed a new bench vice today, a much stronger (and more expensive) one, I tried opening / closing some scrap pieces of angle and this went like nothing using this vice. Lesson learned: cheaper tools will eventually cost you more in the end (I already had learned this lesson before but it seems I need to be reminded every so often).
