Home built knife vise

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This was posted today under "photo test"
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Hope this is a help to someone. The vise is constructed from multi purpose angle bracket (scrounged) and some red oak boards from a shipping palet. There is a nut welded to the top of the vise into which the bolt having a handle welded to it is inserted, this provides more than suficent clamping power. Note that the holes in the jaws need to be somewhat larger than the bolt that holds them in place. Nothing realy tricky here, the leather grips the blade or unfinished handle without marring the work. The vise can also be locked to a work bench using a C clamp. If this is a help to you please let me know. I have the following things built that could have photos posted if there is interest.
Mod for Grizzly belt grinder to place a work piece rest in front of the contact wheel.
Harbor freight metal cutting bandsaw base and motor mount mod.
Anvil stand.
Disk sander.
Quenching oil heating assembly.

Glenn G.
 
Glenn, there's interest all right. Those are all tools I've planned on building or saving for. I'm just about ready to spring for the HF bandsaw, so maybe you could start there!
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And I could put an anvil stand to immediate use...

Question: I don't have a welder, would one of those $100 110V jobbies do any good for building this sort of thing?

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Dave Larsen
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Dave, if the welder is atleast 100 amps it will work fine for most light things. Justa do a little prep work first and go slow.
 
Dave to answer your question on the welder. Two things. I am using a small 110 / 220 volt welder. (Because my circuit can handle it) It is a small hobby type welder from Harbor Freight. if you purchase such an animal it will do most small work easly. use a deep penitrating rod like a 6011 and you should be fine. Second I can tell you how to build your own welder for less that will preform about the same, but will only run on 110 volts. It's relitive easy to build, but has an open circuit voltage of 110 volts. That means the rod holder always has 110 volts avaible and it is somewhat of a safety factor when used by thoes who dont think about what they are doing. Nevertheless I used mine to built my storage shed and lots of other things. It is not especialy efficent, but work it does.

Glenn G.
 
I guess I posted a reply in the wrong thread. I posted in the photo test thread.

Anyway, I have been using two vices like this that I built about 6 or 7 years ago and they work great.

Something a little different on mine is that I used roundstock for the extension that gets locked in the bench vice. I put that roundstock in the PIPE jaws of my bench vice.

That way you have 360 degrees rotation in all three planes. The base of the bench vice, the head of the bench vice, and the actual knife vice itself.

Hope this helps
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Nick
 
Hey Glen
I am always interested in Grizzly Grinder mods, if you get time
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Dave Evans
Tenino, WA

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