Too Many Vises?

[Imissedagain]

That's with an 'S' and not a 'C'.

Reading about the work of 2152hq, around the interweb, I now have a plan for my Mom's bowling ball.

Staying on budget, decades ago, allowed for the Sears vise and not the one engravers and others used.
Collecting firearms and absolutely necessary tools came first.
Lee Loaders to the rescue.

When bolted to the bench, while learning checkering skills and other chores, it was okay.

Will tackle that project next year.
Will mount my 4 jaw as well as whatever is needed.

Little German made vise on ball, most likely for watch work, was a nice find while sailing the eBay.
All brass with plating.
EC '43 steel case 45s were my Dads

Thank you 2152hq,
RT

Any interesting vises?

 

[teletech]

You can never have too many vises.
Your watchmaker's vise likely had jaw inserts, the ones on mine are made of semi-precious stone and glued-in.

 

[Gunhacker]

Not exactly a vise per se, it's a checkering cradle that I made from scratch:

This ball swivel base was made using a trailer hitch ball, and a tractor exhaust flange clamp that I found at Tractor Supply Co. (TSC):

My next project is a knife making vise like this one:

I'm a firm believer that you can never have too many in the workshop.

 

[Pisgah]

it's good to see members collecting vises and not vices -- as so many members tend to do....;-)

 

[Pig Hunter]

If you get the right size plastic dog dish for the bowling ball you can get more angles and it won't roll around.

 

[Imissedagain]

You can never have too many vises.
Your watchmaker's vise likely had jaw inserts, the ones on mine are made of semi-precious stone and glued-in.

Roger that.
They were loose and damaged.
I paid $6 for it on eBay some years ago.

It sits on a table, in the living room, next to an early Clavietta, an old Grenadilla piccolo that I turned into a fife, the mini Les Paul that the 28 day old grandson is holding, and an unfired Colt 1860 Army 2nd gen, that the Mrs preferred to a minty 44 Automag for her birthday in '80, etc etc.

Cop neighbors visiting said, "kool 45".
To which I replied, "it's a 44 but shoots 45s".
They were puzzled.
Those old timers never had to draw their weapons in their careers.

 

[bigwheelzip]

The vise function of the work surface on the Black & Decker Workmate Plus comes in handy. Just used it for laser bore sighting a red-dot sight.

 

[Imissedagain]

That gets my vote as a really nice vise Gunhacker.

For carving rifle stocks and X frame stocks etc etc, that need to be rotated when using my old Marlin carver, I decided to use an indexing wheel/plate type setup.

Two 8" x 3/4" 6000 series aluminum plates glued together, rounded as necessary and drilled every 10 or 15 degrees.
Separate them, mount on aluminum angle, tailstock for each, rotate and pin plates to keep master and wood to be carved in sync. Some other parts but that's basic idea.

Pic of plate getting under way.

I'll post about the old Marlin as I had to modify the cams and straps so it will work to reverse carve safely..... at last.

Two types of 460 grips for me and the modified Nill grip project needs gettin done.... Christmas toys as well.

 

[mikerjf]

I won't commit the vice of thread drift, bear with me...

A guy buys a parakeet from a pet shop. Two days later he's back, worried that the bird won't eat. The owner examines the bird and theorizes that his beak is a little hooked over and catching... if the owner would just carefully file the hooked over part off, his parakeet will be just fine.

The next week they meet on the sidewalk, and the shop owner inquires about the bird. "Sorry to have to tell you, but he is dead." says the customer.

"A shame", says the shop owner. "So he starved to death?"

Customer: "No, he was dead when I took him out of the vise."

 

[Imissedagain]

^^^^^
My name is Mitch and that's a dangerous joke.
After my girlfriend Melanie told that joke, when we lived in Bodega Bay, things went downhill fast.

 

[dave1918a2]

At My age I can only use one kind of vise.

 

[Imissedagain]

For many who love Alpine fast, these might be called boot vises.
CUBCO bindings, tightened to the max, were great on the icy narrow Northeast trails.

 

[Peak53]

For many who love Alpine fast, these might be called boot vises.
CUBCO bindings, tightened to the max, were great on the icy narrow Northeast trails.

drifty, but I had a set of those Cubcos on my first upgraded wooden skis. The first set had "beartrap" non-releasable bindings. Both were responsible for many a spiral fracture of the tibia - but not mine.

 

[Jon42]

The last count I had 17 vises. Have many different kinds mounted all over the shop. Have a hard time leaving a good one at an estate sale or garage sale.