KNIFEMAKER VICE questions...

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Hi this is Daqo'tah

I am thinking now about getting a Knifemaker vise from TEXAS KNIFEMAKER SUPPLY for $89.00

I need to get such a vise because its just so hard to do the handles now without such a vise that can spin the knife all the way around.

So is this a good vise?

and Is this about the right about of money for such a vise?

Do you suggest I look at other ones?

Where did you guys get yours?
 
Here I was thinkin' I was going to read about all the nasty things you knife makers do.... ;)
 
M....well...okay, you got me on that,....the title I wrote for this topic does point to a different, a very different type of vise....

I will look at that $50 vise tonight after I come home from work
 
I thought you had the same spell checker I had. I built this vise a couple of months ago and when I posted it, it kept changing vise to vice.

Anyway, I have less than $10.00 in this. The jaws adjust to about everything, it tilts and rotates.

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Hey Will 52100....

Thanks to your post and 1/2 day of nothing to do at work. i punched out and made my own Moran vice.....Simple design. I welded 3/8 bolts to 3/16" pipe rings and a little flat bar and wha la!

A custom knivemakers vice. Thanks guys!

I didn't think I could do it to tell you the truth. :D
 
Steve (Sando) has a great-looking vise he made out of piping that rotates. Lemme see if I can find it . . .
 
heres a pic of the one I made from some left over exhaust pipe, ugly but works. The stick coming out the back is becuase the top board that the T-handle screws against needs repacing. with the top nut and bolt I can tighten the inner pipe or leave it loose to turn.
 

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Hello Daqo'tah,

I've had the large version of the rotating, knifemaker's vice for 10-12 years, and use it all the time. It gives me a soild work surface when carving finger grips, doing file work, or inlaying something into a handle. I use it when soldering on guards, and hand sanding a handle, with a shop roll of sand paper. With it's tilting ability, it works great holding a knife with a stag crown handle, that will have an inlaid stone in the butt end. Stag crowns grow in all kinds of directions, so the vice helps to keep the crown with the stone and 2-ton epoxy nice and level while the epoxy sets.
Hope this info has been helpful.

Best Regards,
Jay Maines
Sunrise River Custom Knives
 
that very vise your talking about; From Texas Kniifemakers Supply. I live but 30 min. from them and pass by there at least once every two weeks. It is a super tool and although you could make one, it would be hard to find the knobs and special rubber faceing that the jaw plates have. It's bulletproof and I would miss it were it gone...

mitch
 
Just got the same one that your talking about....it's not bad at all. I think now that I have it in my hands that anyone could make one....IF!!! You had a welder, and could find all the parts needed. Well worth the money that I paid for it in time savings alone.
I say go for it! :)
 
What do you guys do with it most ?.......Work the handle areas?
 
Burchtree said:
http://knives.mylamb.com/shop1.htm -- it's down there somewhere on the page. Looks handy, and cheap to build.

(hope you don't mind me posting this Steve.)
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No trouble Michael! It's one of my most used/reliable tools and made with scrap plumbing from the shed. The parts list is:

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All 2" plumbing:

1 - 10" nipple
1 - Coupling
1 - plug
3 - 5/16 fine thread bolts
1 - 5/16 fine tap
2 - pieces of scrap pine
1 - piece of old hacksaw blade
1 - chunk of largish angle iron

Construction:

Drill hole in angle iron
Tap a hole in the plug so you can bolt it to the angle iron
tap 2 holes in the pipe for the locking bolts
screw the pipe parts together
Sand the wood so it fits in there (you do have a belt sander)
Glue the hacksaw blade to the top of one board (so the locking bolts push on it.
Clamp the whole thing to your work bench.

The one change I've made since that picture is to use stouter angle iron. I'm sure the store bought models are swell, but this one serves me quite well.

Steve
 
Bought the one from K&G about 6-7 years ago. Wouldn't be without one.
I think it cost a little more now.
Take Care
TJ
 
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