I'm to the point where I want to make some soft jaws for my Tormach/MiniMag vise. (How fast things change, by the way. In the couple of days since I posted a link to Conquest's page on the vise, the URL changed to http://www.conquestind.com/mini_mag.php )

I have some cast aluminum tooling plate that I could use, but is that overkill? Should I save the tooling plate for "good" stuff and just use 6061?

I do have a request in to Conquest to see how much their soft jaws cost too.

Thanks for any advise.

Randy