After heat treatment all the tolerances of sufaces will be jambled up again and need to be grinded back into precision.. After watching this whole WIYB series I can tell you that having this vice will be a prize possesion in your workshop..Really impressed by all the labour and thinking that has gone into this tool by the many fine professional toolmakers.

How can you not feel the immediate satisfaction at the flying 6’s & 9’s? “It’s a beautiful thing to be ‘square’ “

I hope whoever is fortunate to receive this fine gift appreciates what Adam and others have done and the work they did.

Adam, Thanks for taking the extra time to explain your setup. I think this toolmaker's collaboration is really a cool idea. Thanks for the video. Have a good one! Dave

Gotta love when you just finish SNS, and theres another video waiting for you

Great job on the K&T what a versatile mill. The indicating was very involved, but made a great set-up. The saw cuts on the vise were very cool to watch. That is going to be a beautiful machinists vise when completed. Thanks for the video.....

I look forward to Saturday night , keep up the good work producing quality viewer friendly videos .

Just amazing, that K&T is just so good for you - what a range of spindle speeds and other adjustments. You seem very comfortable with it indeed. Well done sir!!

Interesting setup on this one. Nice work as usual, much enjoyed!

Good job Adam, looks like the setup was everything on those cuts.

WOW Adam this is what engineering is all about thanks.

Great Job Adam, I too love the finish you get on the larger machines. They are so Rigid. Thanks for the great video's.

Nice set up to cut those reliefs. Nice having that big vice to keep it all in place.

Wheel cutters and arbor set up used to be some of my favorite machining. We had "good" vices for the delicate work and as they loosened up were given to the roughing mills. Can't beat Kurt vices. We always kept one new in the tool crib and as they were used a new one was ordered. We were slow on work at one time so we reworked some of the older vices by grinding the surfaces and replacing the screws and movable jaws so we didn't hurt the shops budget so often. Good work as usual. JHolland MiddleGa

Tails of the Vice Squad. Nice job Adam, and the ol' K&T takes no prisoners.

Thanks Adam, nice work on those tricky set-ups! I'm very happy to see that you are getting comfortable with your new mechanical monster, and the work you're doing really shows. I hope you're having a great weekend, and I'll see you online soon....Aloha, Chuck.

really enjoy your videos Adam, It takes me back to my apprentice days all those years ago ! I can almost smell the coolant... . best regards from Peter

Awesome job Adam i enjoy your videos every saturday night here in Sweden.

another great video Adam, keep it up man, and thanks for taking the time to do so!:)

Enjoyed....like the setups/explanations

Adam, You do PERFECT work all the time!! Eric

These guys could easily put their heads together and come up with some innovative new machining tools.

You've got a great sense for camera work. I love the more complex projects, hopefully you've got more of that kind of thing in the pipeline.

The part is looking nice Adam and the K&T seems to be doing very nice after the fix. All nice :)

Hello from Bernie. This is the perfect job for a shaper. Easy set up and low tool cost. Also easy to keep it to 1 thou.

+Abom79 Great video as usual man! I love this vise project. I used to make them for Lie-Nielsen Toolworks. I love hunting for them too. We have 2 stores up here in Maine, owned by the same guy, Liberty Tool and The Tool Barn. You would have an absolute field day in them. He buys estates and sells all the tools, at discount prices. All the good stuff, Starret, Mitutoyo, Brown&Sharp all the others, some new, some old. 3 floors of tools! I usually make a day off it. Keep up the good work! 👍

This vise is going to be epic!

Great work Adam.

excellent! my daddy made one for me when i was young, but only 1/2 that size... he was a master tool&die maker, i still have it

Adam, I was very interested in the way you indicated the vise. Nice job! Glad to see you are getting some use out of the hammer. Now go smoke some ribs!

Love the old content. You’re so amazing and i hope you know Jesus bro

Nice work Adam.

adam you and the K & T are looking good. bob

Ida made two of them one for the box and one for my self nice job Adam

Very interesting project. I have a vice like this on my Sherline mill and it must take some impressive machining to get all the tolerances perfect and square.

Nice work!!

After thinking about it... (something I rarely do, let alone have the time to), it looks like you could have used the slitter on that very last cut by putting the knubby end up. You still would need some major height changes, but the setup should still be the same. Beautiful work as always, and I love seeing video 2 after SNS. :-D

nice video, good to see the K&T in action. BTW it rarely hurts to go a bit deeper than you think necessary on those reliefs. They are not just there for the initial surface grinding, but also for in 5 or 10 or 30 or even 75 yrs time when someone wants to clean up the faces, since that voice should easily last 100yrs.

Great movie for a Friday!! (I stay at the house anymore).. lol -Jeff

GREAT VIDEO !!

OUTSTANDING SIR!!!!

Good show, but Usually the radius in the slot is for heat treat.To stop the stresses from concentrating in the corner causing cracks. I usually put a corner relief groove in after heat treat with an abrasive disk. After heat treat it doesn't matter.

Looks good! You have a big head start on me! I need to get started on Randy's punches. May go do that now. Can't get too distracted though I have concrete to finish trowl in about an hour.

Nice job Adam, I have been trying to catch up. Long story Hope all is well.

Hey Adam, Looking good. Glad to help out. Now its over to Brad for some grinding action. Who is going to do the heat treating? Talk to you soon. Tom

nice machining adam

Nice set up Adam & great comments throughout the cut, interesting to see what the extra load was as you approached that shoulder, man that mill just kept on cutting, I thought there might have been a little bucking there or at least a change in resonance but no no. wouldn't mind an extreme case of what happens when your milling from light to heavy cuts in one pass & what to listen for Just wondering bud, I bet there's some action & tool pressure to consider. For this one you nailed the SPEEDS & FEEDS 👍

Get your vice on!! :-) Colin

+abom79 Very nice setup there Adam. One good reason to use a radius cutter on relief slots like that is that radius cutters are a lot more durable, however I don't see that affecting the performance of this vise in any way. I noticed you put Stan's squares to good use as well, nice.

very nice ...

Nice!

Just a thought, these operations would have been good in the shaper! Easy set up. A special tool would have allowed you to have not cut the bottom of the fixed jaw. Thanks for another great video, regards, Matthew

I love the new mill. Must be painful to feed it though. It is a good thing you already have a bunch of big stuff packed away, you would have mortgage the business to buy cutters...

Adam did you hook up the flood coolant on the K&T mill? I see the loc-line on the right side of the mill and was curious if you had put that in a video.

Another project coming to completion, you have made a really nice job on the vice so far, was just curious as to who will be doing the grinding to finish it up, will it be Stan, and also would you be able to let me know what model that Starret Indicator was that you were using to dial it all in. regards John MacDonald

I've tried all kinds of setups on my Bridgeport with these slitting saws with 'okay' results, seems the rigidity of the machine may be at least part of the issue.

Hi Adam, I'm trying to keep track of the fixes that need to happen in the drawing. Apologies! Not sure if the solid few clearance was in the original print or something I introduced when I redrew everything. I'll make sure to get all of the "fixes" incorporated before we post the prints for everyone to use. Sure cool watching how well the K&T handles those cuts. Was it really that smooth and quiet or did the microphones not pick up on the noise? Hope all is well and talk again soon! Tom Z

Very nice video +Abom79. I am looking forward to the next video. Nice ending, what is the name of the music?

Adam, love your vids but have a question. How did you indicate or measure your depth of cut to be the same on each side? How did you know you placed the work piece the same in the vise each time. Hope you understand my question.Jerry Halcomb

That close-up pic showing the mist at work is true machine porn.

Those saw cuts make me nervous. I've already crashed one.

Hey Adam, what's the purpose of undercuts like that? I've seen them in V-blocks as well. Are they for chip clearance to keep debris out of tight corners?

For the second cut instead of repositioning the work, could you have removed the vertical head and put the arbor direct in the spindle?

Adam, another random thought, why not use the same cutter to do the second undercut operation ? Just reposition the vise body and you would be ready to go.

Looked like you spent alot of time setting up for that cut , then the blade you used was wobbling under rotation. (I admit to having no idea how to do what you do) but doesnt the wobble effect the cut ?

Adam I think the shaper would have worked better...just make the cutter reach under the corner that is being knocked off. Good Video

Did u start installing the liquid cooling? I see a bleu pipe

Nice work mate.Hope you dont mind me asking .Is that a left hand thread on you stub arbor? Yes/No?Looks to me your tightening the arbor to LEFT.If thats correct you have should have reversed the direction of spindle and put cutter on so it revolvesA/Clockwise.Practice is always cut with lock,Your cutting against the lock.So the cutter can become loose when cutting.In short its a left hand thread on arbor.So you should have the force of cut going same way.You havnt its really bad practice-Sorry but I know I have been doing this 40+yrs

The problem with doing that on a CNC is that they don't have gearing, so not a whole lot of power at low speed.

Are those the new hold down clamps on the Kurt from SNS?

what spindle taper is the K&T

I still get a kick out of the outro music on all the videos.

I may have missed it, but what are the cuts for?

Would have made up a nice shaper job...

Since you are only cutting a relief groove, could you make the angle lower ( 40 or 35 , whatever ) and not chop off the corner of the vise jaw area ? I would try to avoid removing metal where it could / should be left intact. No reason slot HAS TO BE 45 degrees is there ?