Hardtail Vise Build Ep. 2 

I liked this video, like I do 99% of your others. The reason for this one is that yet again you show your mistakes. In an online world that deems editted perfection to drive user engagement, I apreciate the humanity you bring.

Precisely what I need after work, an Abom79 video keep these coming!!

If you want to pretty that step up, get the appropriate sized ball mill and run it across that step. It will look great.

Good video content- but I also wanted to acknowledge the excellent camera work. As someone who has created project videos in the past, I can really appreciate the extra effort for setting up a camera simply to show us brushing anchor lube onto the tap! Lol! Good stuff

Always great!! I love this channel. This and CEE are my favorites

Your videos are very cool! I like seeing a professional like you go through the steps.

Hi im Jamie from Adelaide South Australia . Very nice work . love watching your vids . Thats why we like to buy American products . "GOOD QUALITY" . Thanks bye .

A good example how castings are a pain in the butt! People are suggesting a ball-end mill, which would work, but a few licks with a round file would probably look good and save a set up. Good video.

Use a round end mill to finish off the step at the back of the anvil.

I never cease to be amazed by your skills at machining metal. Can't wait for the next episode.

I watch a lot of people on here build all kinds of stuff, but you seem to be the only one with sharpened drills, what a joy it is to watch a real machinist work.

You can use a needle scaler to blend the grind marks to look more like the original cast.

Thanks for a really well made and informative video. Having watched your channel almost from the beginning I'm sure that both your dad and grandfather would be most proud of the shop you built and the way you maintain it.

Love watching this as I am from Spokane where this vice was made!

15:38 - Spot on! You gotta love it!

This is a great project! Really enjoying the machining of some chunky stuff. Thanks for all the hard work. Your channel is really well produced!

Lots of naysayers, Adam. It's your life, so do what makes you happy. I still enjoy watching your content. Keep it up, sir.

Adam, I love the way that something being functionally acceptable isn't good enough - you have to be happy with the way it looks too.

Lol. I would like to be the 4000 person to mention a ball style end mill 😂 kidding. Awesome video Aaron.

H i Adam, I have been watching your videos since you started and look forward to each new one. Keep up the good work!

I’m really glad that your doing this build it’s nice to see ya doing what you’re passionate about. And back to the old days of some really good content. I appreciate you sharing with us. And I love all your videos. Just feel like you’re doing something that reminded me of your older videos. Thank you bud

People usually don't appreciate how much work goes into making something like a vice

I would blend that step on the anvil face with a radius cutter eg. a "ball nose" endmill.

i see that giant flex in the background and wonder how quick it would blast this casting to dimension...

You should be able to blend that anvil with a ball mill. Should be rather simple. Should look really good with a radius. Great video thanks for sharing

Adam Could You Bolt It Back On The Table And Run A Ball Mill Over That Step And Have A nice Radius There

The knowledge you have is found in not many others. What you have is so great to see and used in a way that is very specific, that's why what ever you do always looks great.

Might run a Ball nose down that and clean it up. Do a curve fix on the back of the Anvil.

I would blend the anvil and base radii with a ball mill.

Use a ball end mill to ease the radius. I would look good.

I think a 1" ball end mill would probably quickly clean up the little whoopsie on the anvil and look good.

Really enjoyed!!Nicely done ,,Tight,Tidy! Cheers!;-)!!

This is headed to be the G O A T of vices! Ray

Love the process !

I milled a step in my real anvil. Very useful. Like 15 years ago.

Mad respect for you Adam, always have..... just wish you were back into the "more vid time" & "more machining"

Nice to see such a neat and tidy workplace, congratulations 😉

Everybody makes mistakes and you make very few, so just call it custom! 😀

Coming right along!

CNC's aside, it seems to me that, once the prototype setup is done, ten more could be completed in the same amount of time. Perhaps that is what you and Jason have in mind. Once things are worked out, the FlexCNC would seem to be the obvious choice to crank out a production order. In fact, I would really like to see that.

So far so good,Adam.Thank you for your hard work.

awesome milling

It's so good to see abomb do the abomb thing again

A round end mill would work well on those two steps or a chamfer bit.🤔🤔

That step you put in? 1/4" or 1/8" Ball end mill and make it a fillet. Just don't go all the way end to end, and I think it will work.

Some critical machinning there. I see there are two sets of parallel lines to machine by, the bottom and inside rails and the side flange and jaw face. The two sets have to be a perfect 90 deg angle to eachother for the vice to be spot on.💫

I sure enjoy this project. Thank you for sharing.

I would clean up that step with a ball nose end mill or by hand.

9:55 I think that's a good plan Adam! ... think that little strip there, will become invisible, once the vise is in use for a few months, some hammer strikes some file marks and weld splatter :) will make it bled right in! ... no worries! This vice is MEANT to be used daily!! :) .. the 45° cutter will work great! :)

Pro tip: when you loosen a bunch of bolts get some cheap colored fridge magnets (preferably in a high vis color) and drop them on every bolt you loosen. Then when you tighten them you can pull them off so you know you did it. You can also count how many you put on and then match the count when you think you're done.

Every time I watch one of your videos, I am impressed by your craftsmanship in setting-up, aligning and machining the metal. BTW, isn't it so that a threaded fastener in a threaded hole is called a screw, and it is called a bolt only when a nut is involved? Absolutely no offense intended, but in my native language (Dutch) things may be different than in American English. I keep following your channel when time permits!

Great job , think a wee burl with a ball nose end mill as other commenters have said would be good I was more concerned with who took the casting lines out with a grinder and a blindfold , it’s a shame as Jason has a decent video out on angle grinding neatly to a high standard he needs to show this to whoever he had grind up that casting not being negative I love your work and have been a subscriber for years 👍🏻

Adam, I think there's an issue with the 4 holes (or at least two of them) that you just drilled and tapped for fixing the tail to the rear of the vice. My ex-draughtsman's senses twitched when, having seen you spot the centres of the 'top' two holes (those adjacent to the Anvil), that you then just trammed straight 'down' to the do the same for the two near the base flange. My concern, was that I was sure that the two bottom ones, look to be on a wider pitch than those up by the Anvil. Quickly looking back in the video at the rear of the finished vice fixed to your bench, seems to confirm this. Going the extra mile, I've also referred back to the first episode, where you let us see the drawing Jason supplied. On it, there is indeed only one dimension (2.500") for the 4 x 5/16-18 UNC threads, but if you hold a ruler along the inner vertical face of the casting there, you can clearly see that the upper hole is inside of that line, whilst the lower one is outside of the line. In other words, the lower pair of holes are on a wider pitch than the 2.500" of the upper ones. Makes sense - presumably, without the cut-outs in the upper flange (either side of the Anvil), all four flange bolts would be at the wider pitch of the lower two. The lower two definitely need to be out that far, in order to be able to access them with an Allen key for assembly/dis-assembly. They'll be hidden awkwardly under the vice tail, if pitched the same as those up by the Anvil.

Nice job thanks Adam

Interesting video Adam, thanks

Just think about Adam ! thanks!

Maybe a ball end mill to round out the step on the pad ?

I was interrupted two times by ads. So I finished this abo.

Most excellent.

I liked that 9. 0000 , that third and fourth zero are skill, the first two are equipment and tooling..

Leave it. It adds character. It looks fine

Adam, let me start by saying I am not a machinist, with that out of the way I think a ball end mill would do the trick on that little step on the anvil face. As for the rear face me thinks a face mill with a rounded edge would have done a good job with the radius.

I would have just blended it in with a round cutter to get rid of most of the step

you could take a ball endmill to blend in that step on the anvil

Good job 😊

Use face mill with round inserts

Do you have a 1.5 in ball mill? I think that radius would look better where the steps are.

Cool video,I like the order of operations you've outlined for this. Be cool on the tail extension to mill your logo into,being you have the CNC. maybe do the West Weld mod to it? Cant wait to see what comes next!

I'm wondering if there is a reason for not using a bull nose cutter(the wrong term?) to remove the double step on the anvil part? I'd think a curved corner would look neat and dissipate shock from a square edge.

Thanks for sharing.

As I watch Adam machining this vise I keep thinking, "Yep, now _that_ is MADE IN U.S.A."

I would probably blend that down with an angle grinder. so far so good.

Love that hat... I think I need one

I would blend that step on the anvil in with a band file.

Blend with ball end mill

Adam, wouldn't the setup for that been much easier on the K&T horizontal mill in your home shop?

I'm sure he'll blend those steps with a flapper wheel... The one's the was left on the anvil part of the vise... And going to look good.

Good stuff

Mill the step off and leave a pocket without cutting into the radius of the casting . That would look best imo . Sweet vice tho

Well I can’t critique the machining because it’s spot on, but, you could always run a ball nose end mill along that step or just say that I left it there for a square reference point 😂. And aren’t the jaws going to be a little wonky if you only rotate it a 100 degrees for the next op 😎😎😎😂😂😂😂. I just wanted to pick on you and be “your usual commentator “. Carry on mate 👍👍😜

I think you could probably ease that step off with a file in a few minutes. Or leave it as a reminder to double check things. In my youth, I went out drinking with the wrong sorts of folks and one of them ended up sucker punching me and chipped one of my teeth. I can still feel the chip, it's a daily reminder to double check who I'm hanging out with.

Nice work as always buddy I wish you lived closer to me. I would like to get a couple a couple things machined

Looking at the "standard", purchased vice, there is a "lip" t the same place Abom is concerned about. I assume (dangerous as that is!) that milling surfaces into a casting often will show slight differences between each original item. That "lip" or edge will likely be in all finished pieces.

how about blending in the anvil with a ball mill or just dress in the casting to blend into the machined surface

Blend that step with a flap disk and I’m sure you wont even notice anything.

Remember when Tom Lipton made the baby bullet? Maybe you could do some engine turning on that anvil face, dress it up a little.😊

Hey Adam, is there a reason you used standard taps on that cast iron and not a roll-over tap? I was always told to use roll-over taps on cast iron because it's a stronger thread and doesn't rip out. Or is it not really necessary?

see the problems in manufacturing a product that was initially designed as a welding project and got changed to use cast parts without much thought given to ease of assembly

I may be over thinking; I see you are square front to back with the faceplate but what about left to right? I would call it slop from the holes.

Could have taken a scrap piece of plate steel drilled 2 holes to fit the angle plate and 2 holes to fir the vice then counter bored them and used counter sunk bolts and not modified a nice tool

Need updates on the property you bought and how you are going to setup the house and shop or is that still in future plans

What would be the harm if that anvil surface were left higher and add to the reference for the bolt pattern below?

17:23 .. and .. 18:03 .. Is that just me? Or does Adam keep calling the Swivel or Turret, on the milling machine a "Turr-ant" ??

I have trouble understanding how the edge finder works, it seems very subjective to me, once it stops wiggling and becomes perfectly strait, one would think is your edge, but I see almost everyone who uses one, go past the perfectly strait, and seem to make it spin smoothly but slightly offset? Unless there is marks on the top that become visible once it’s slightly offset? And no one has shown this assuming everyone knows??

14:15 this part needs to be taller, so it can be wider/longer

speed step

Looking at 2:10 in the video, the bottom tapped holes are wider than the top. I wondered if you would catch that. I suspect they did that so it's easier to reach the screw head.

u could try to blend that with an angle grinder

When we made our vice in trade school, we used a shaper to machine the internal surfaces of the fixed Jaw. I still have my vices. Will you use your shaper too?

should the height of the vise be centered for the bolt on casting? guess i will just watch the complete video..