The Sherline vertical mill is so tiny that people with big boy mills sometimes call it a jeweler's mill. The Y-axis has about four inches of travel. Trying to cut stock approaching that dimension in Y is often a struggle because the mill vise will contact the column at the far end of travel. The trick is also to get the cut line far enough off the position of the column that the mill vise goes to either side of the column.
In addition, the mill vise back jaw is so deep that the quill needs to be quite some distance from the column. The Sherline allows you to stack spacer blocks between quill and column to solve this. It is not an elegant solution and I suspect Sherline would cringe at seeing this.
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