Easy shop made bench vise

Hi, I made the vise shown hear some years ago, made it out of an old coffee table top, mainly to hold guitar bodies for scraping or sanding the sides and other work.

As it would be ideal for holding boxes for the same jobs I thought it might be of interest here as a cheaper alternative to a shop bought one. I can also see ways to modify it further to make it "mobile", so those of you that work off of the kitchen table can attach it when required, and remove it before the wife comes home.

I think the photo's will tell the story. Half inch threaded rod can be used, but would be sized according to the size of the vise jaws.

The threaded rod goes through nuts that have been embedded into the back board and capped both sides with suitably sized washers to keep them in place.

there are a number of ways to make handles for the ends of the rods, what I used was already in the "parts" drawer.

I made mine to fit into my "island vise stand" but you can get creative as to where and how it mounts.

If I had made it to fit on to the front of a bench I would have had two more nuts spaced out so as to give more rigidity to the two threaded rod and the moving vise jaw. But as it is it worked fine for 20 years.

Cheers Taff

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Permalink Reply by Cause the Blue rat on November 30, 2018 at 7:16pm

Forth picture shows it off nicely. Really dig your handle idea.

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Permalink Reply by Paul Craig on November 30, 2018 at 7:45pm

That's a nice vise.

Now let's see the bike!

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Permalink Reply by Taffy Evans on December 3, 2018 at 2:53pm

Hi Paul, here it is, "Mojo", had it for 24 or so years.

Taff

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Permalink Reply by Paul Craig on December 6, 2018 at 11:52am

That is nice Taff.

I was going to get a Lowrider back in 84, but the wife wasn't having it. Then I got into my 40's I ran across a project bike and built it up. 85' Yamaha 700 Maxim.

My brother has a 03' Dyna, 2010 Heritage and a 2012 Street Glide. I think he's become a collector. ;)

My Yamaha

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