Designing/building workbench and I'm going the inexpensive/hard route
- total bottom feeder.
Want to MAKE my own vices. Don't want to BUY vice hardware, in part
to keep SWMBO quiet and in part to $ave, in part just cause I like
the challenge and would get more satisfaction out of something
completely home-grown and not "store-bought".
Found a pattern for using pipe clamps which seems like it'll work and
won't cost too much. Then thought about taking the screw out of a
scissor jack, making something more refined than this:
http://member.nifty.ne.jp/manasan/english/diy/diygr7.htm
Then noticed that press screws, like this:
http://shop.woodcraft.com/Woodcraft/product_family.asp?family%5Fid=4362&gift=False&mscssid=0B271AB3EB7D64965A1BFA0D0B2E1450
don't appear to be any different than vice hardware, other than
diameter. Why not use two of 'em for a wide face - better stability,
no wracking, etc. Do they come any longer than 9"? Certainly cost
less...
Local hardware stores have plenty of threaded steel rod. How can I,
with only hand tools, build a vice based on one or two 24" lengths of
threaded steel rod? I don't have any way to drill through the rod to
put a tommy bar in, so I'd need some piece of hardware that would
achieve the same result. Then mortice large nuts in the pieces of
wood making the vise jaws and guides?
Finally, making my own wooden vice screws& nuts? Suggestions? Saw
the thread boxes at Lee Valley. For a 1.5" set it's $42.00 less
shipping. I may as well give up and buy a vise screw...The workbench
in Fine Woodworking Winter 2001/02 looks good but he put out close to
$200 for his vice screws!
So how can I REALLY "do it yourself" ?
On 22 Nov 2003 20:22:59 -0800, [email protected] (NFrames) brought
forth from the murky depths:
>Designing/building workbench and I'm going the inexpensive/hard route
>- total bottom feeder.
-snip-
>So how can I REALLY "do it yourself" ?
Get thee to the library and find a copy of the neander
book by Our Lord Roy. He tells how to make taps and dies
(screwboxes) for wood threading from scratch.
The Woodwright's Workbook
Further Explorations in Traditional Woodcraft
by Roy Underhill
259 pp., 81/2 x 11, 239 illus.
$18.95 paper ISBN 0-8078-4157-9
Table of Contents for The Woodwright's Workbook
Annotated Text of The Debate of the Carpenter's Tools
Making Workbenches
Making Screwboxes and Taps for Wood Threading
Constructing Springpole and Treadle Lathes
Building a Carpenter's Tool Chest
Rustic Chairs
Hickory-Bark Chair Bottoms
Turned High Chair
Weaving a Cattail Reed Chair Seat
A Loom-Back Chair
Ladders, Folding Bookstands, Eggbeaters, and Music Mills
Making a Rowboat
A Field Guide to American Tool Marks
Building a Colonial Fort, a Barn, and a Blacksmith Shop
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IMHO, probably the simplest way would be to manufacture the vise screws out
of wood.
Some info here:
http://www.jeffgreefwoodworking.com/pnc/ShopProj/woodvice/
Greg
"NFrames" <[email protected]> wrote in message.
> Designing/building workbench and I'm going the inexpensive/hard route
> - total bottom feeder.
>
snip
> Finally, making my own wooden vice screws& nuts? Suggestions? Saw
> the thread boxes at Lee Valley. For a 1.5" set it's $42.00 less
> shipping. I may as well give up and buy a vise screw...The workbench
> in Fine Woodworking Winter 2001/02 looks good but he put out close to
> $200 for his vice screws!
>
> So how can I REALLY "do it yourself" ?