Modellers vice build

[AlexBB]

Looking great, really enjoying watching this progress..

Nice idea about adding the brass pin..

[Jim R]

That's a clever solution. Great work.

[Mr Bowcat]

Afternoon all.

I've had an enjoyable morning in the workshop and finished up this project. There were just a few last operations that need to be completed.

First up was flycutting all the surfaces and adding chamfers. Then a series of holes were drilled and reamed in the tops of the moving and fixed jaws.




These are to allow pins to be installed (more on these later).



And that's it. Here's all the parts before final assembly. I added some shrink wrap to the pins. All the parts have been coated with PTFE to stop them oxidising, I may later chemically blacken them.



And in it's natural environment. As can be seen now, the pins are to hold the parts and can be moved as need to fit irregular shapes. They can also be removed and the jaws used instead.





As I said at the start of this thread, I'm not sure I will actually use this vice, but it's been a fun project and it's there if I ever need it.

[pjgtech]

Fantastic mate, they really are useful bits of kit, I have been using mine a lot lately..... that is a great build, looks the biz.

[stillp]

Very nice Bob.
Pete

[Jim R]

That's superb and it's been really interesting to follow how you built it. I'll bet you find a lot of uses. I have a similar commercial vice, not cheap ☹️, but very useful. Yours looks better and cheaper I'm sure.