Portable All-Purpose Bench Vise

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6 жыл бұрын

WW'nTip-of-Day #036: The Portable All-Purpose Bench Vise
My first bench vise on my first bench is still something I use on a regular basis. It's the most flexible and the cheapest one I've ever owned.
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• 江戸指物
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@pastblast1664 4 жыл бұрын

Great tip for using the wooden clamps. Will definitely be using them in the future!

@wortheffort 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks

@tesuji2000 6 жыл бұрын

I discovered your site a few weeks ago. Wonderful videos, great tips ( also your suggested other sites to visit are truly amazing). I have recommended your videos to all my woodworking/woodturning friends. Always informative and entertaining. Thanks so much.

@wortheffort 6 жыл бұрын

Thanks, word of mouth is the best.

@tfields6364 3 жыл бұрын

I love this! I've invaded my husband's woodshop and I've been using a cheap MFT table for my own workbench - which is working fine for me - but I REALLY wanted a front vice. This works perfect. Thank you so much for sharing your ideas!

@Bubba59ish 6 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the link to the Japanese woodworking! Watched it all the way through. What a great education!

@wortheffort 6 жыл бұрын

humbling isn't it.

@alext9067 6 жыл бұрын

Watching Kotaro Tanaka now. Just past the halfway mark. Extremely interesting. Thank you.

@wortheffort 6 жыл бұрын

humbling isn't it.

@MrStevendamico 6 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for this tip - I used it today since I don't have a vice in my current apartment set up. Finally could get some dovetail cuts done.

@wortheffort 6 жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it.

@robertbrunston5406 6 жыл бұрын

I have some of those parallel clamps I never use anymore but you have some good ideas so I think I will round up my clamps! Thank you.

@wrecks2007 6 жыл бұрын

I've been woodworking a long, long time. Longer than you are old. I thought I've seen about all there is to see. But you keep coming up with techniques and ideas that I've never seen before. Keep up the good work. Thanks for sharing.

@wortheffort 6 жыл бұрын

Thanks. I'm 50 so that makes you... Gandolf? (Lord of Rings reference.)

@wrecks2007 6 жыл бұрын

67 years old. Thanks to my father I've been woodworking since I was 5. Was Gandolf a woodworker? If so I'll have to watch the LotR movies.

@Bsholder 6 жыл бұрын

you were reading my mind this is exactly what I was looking for

@wortheffort 6 жыл бұрын

Thanks, and FYI... there's some pretty weird stuff in there.

@Santamonicadrainco 6 жыл бұрын

I’ve been using the ones from the harbor freight and they are super helpful. Thanks for sharing.

@wortheffort 6 жыл бұрын

Good to know they sell em.

@ron5935 6 жыл бұрын

I just reinvented the wheel, `er wood vice. Add a strip of 1" thick hardwood between clamp and table top and the screw on back side can be adjusted without scraping your knuckles. They do rack if you try to get wood really super tight, but a bit of equal thickness on the opposite end stops the rack and makes them strong any vice I ever used.

@jackmiller3628 6 жыл бұрын

I love these vices. This just seems to be my go to clamp when nothing else works. Besides garage sales, you can pick up the hardware cheap and use your own wood. Easy to build with the hardware

@wortheffort 6 жыл бұрын

yep yep

@lunaticprophet 6 жыл бұрын

I had to laugh! Used hand screws for my first bench clamps, and still use them today for long boards. Quick and easy. Built an armoire with these as my main parts clamps. Pipe clamps when putting it all together.

@mikethompson6713 6 жыл бұрын

I got 2 of those clamps from my brother. I’ve been using them ever since. Thanks for the “effort “

@wortheffort 6 жыл бұрын

I forgot to mention I also screwed mine down at one time to make them semi permanent. You can see the screw holes.

@mikethompson6713 6 жыл бұрын

wortheffort those screw holes are “battle scars”!

@strange-universe 6 жыл бұрын

ok, so I followed that link and watched that fellow make a small cabinet. Well, I can't even sit on a floor, so he had me at that point. What amazing skill and joinery. Thanks for finding that gem of a channel and sharing it. All my tools will be for sale beginning tomorrow... Anyway, I have been using those twin screw Jorgenson clamps forever as extra hands. Good stuff on being creative for bench work! Seriously though, I won't be able to sleep, I think that guy was using ribbon for gluing up.

@wortheffort 6 жыл бұрын

He was.

@jakegevorgian 6 жыл бұрын

My first dovetails were reversed - instead of holding them, they could easily come apart lol. Great tips for anyone who wants to start woodworking even on a kitchen table! Thanks

@wortheffort 6 жыл бұрын

Shhhh... mine were too. Even glued em up before noticing.

@clydeulmer4484 6 жыл бұрын

Great tips -- these are marvelous multipurpose tools. Cut V grooves across the width and along the length, and you can clamp round and odd/funky shapes. I keep a set of different sizes by my drill press to use holding parts I'm drilling to keep them from spinning. By clamping them to each other, you can build Rube Goldberg clamp/jig/thingamajigs to your Lego-loving heart's content :-) Clyde

@wortheffort 6 жыл бұрын

Good points.

@rick91443 6 жыл бұрын

Love those things...rr

@SkylersRants 5 жыл бұрын

Nice. On another topic, I'd like to see a comparison of different kinds of clamps and when it's best to use each kind.

@wortheffort 5 жыл бұрын

I don't own many clamps so I can't make much of a judgement.

@ugaladh 6 жыл бұрын

Never thought of using these ON the bench. made a mistake on my set recently. just got back to woodcarving and woodworking after an almost 20 year hiatus. First thing I did was check, clean up, protect all my old tools. My Jorgenson vices had some rust on the screws, wire-brushed that off, and then put some wax on for protection ( as I had done with metal tools). l then got to see the vice slowly unscrew when trying to use them under pressure. had to clean all that wax off with mineral spirits.

@wortheffort 6 жыл бұрын

Another think in life that's better dirty. Check.

@benjamindebellis6664 6 жыл бұрын

I actually have 6 of these that have been handed down from my great grandfather. I'm not sure what kind of wood it is as they are a really dark wood that has some heft to it. I use them for so many things. Along with what you demonstrated, I use them for cutting, drilling and routing small parts. AWesome clamps.

@wortheffort 6 жыл бұрын

Never used them with power tools. Might be worth a try.

@ianpearse4480 5 ай бұрын

My favourite vice, well apart from chocolate! LOL.

@Grumpyneanderthal 6 жыл бұрын

Harbor Freight has pretty good ones 6", 8", 10", 12" between $7 and $12. Not bad quality. Great Tip as always

@wortheffort 6 жыл бұрын

Good to know.

@Grumpyneanderthal 6 жыл бұрын

My mistake there is no 6" but they do have the 8" 10" and 12". Based on your videos I'm going to pickup a couple each of the 8" and 10" sizes. Really enjoy the Tips videos along with the longer vids. I considered making my own but you can't buy the hardware for what HF sells these for. Thanks for the Effort you make.

@hastings9452 6 жыл бұрын

This mans hair is beautiful.

@wortheffort 6 жыл бұрын

It's a toupee.

@pauljenkins5159 6 жыл бұрын

I use one as a pen blank drilling vise

@wortheffort 6 жыл бұрын

me too.

@zer013 6 жыл бұрын

Which size do you like to use?

@wortheffort 6 жыл бұрын

I'm not sure the size, Seems I have em in Small, Medium, and Large but use the one shown in the video most.

@springwoodcottage4248 6 жыл бұрын

Interestingly these clamps were never popular in the UK, search on eBay uk & most offered come from the US. I have only ever seen one for sale second hand in the uk & I was too skint to buy it. Not sure why as they seem super useful.

@wortheffort 6 жыл бұрын

It's American ingenuity (or we stole it from the french).

@NavinBetamax 6 жыл бұрын

1:55 .....Other four corners...??? Lol

@wortheffort 6 жыл бұрын

It was designed as a teaching bench so I could install a leg vise on each leg if needed so four students could use a single bench.

@googlesbitch 5 жыл бұрын

Keep that Jorgensen screw clamp because they no longer are in business and they went bankrupt early 2016. Few screw clamp companies out there unless they are from China and any where but US.