MAKE A FLOAT LOCK Drill Press Vise TIPS 586 pt 7 tubalcain 

Definitely like the forming tool cut. Those rounded ends look sweet, Tubalcain

Thanks for the refresher. I remember watching your first video of making and using this cutter. Thanks again!

Nice job, Mr. Pete. I plan on making one of these, but will cut different radii on all four corners of the form tool.

THANKS Mr.Pete I love making tools

Seeing all his videos, I intend to build one (in metric), the good thing is that I will be able to use it both to clamp the pieces on the drill, and to hold the pieces when I use the vertical bandsaw. Thank you.

This was great. You are amazing. Thanks fer takin' us along...

Good morning Mr Pete and everyone else. Up early for chores but I have a few minutes for my edutainment. Thanks for the video this is now added for my list of things to build. Now where's my coffee cup.

I don't drink beer, so I saved up my soda money, as you suggested, and bought a very nice Craftsmen standing Drill Press. I will be referring to this series to make my float lock vise for that drill press. A Great series. Thank you.

Homemade and heat treated form tools, I love it!

Excellent view of cutting the radius! Thanks for the video Mr. Pete.

Using tools, to make a tool, to make a tool! Beautifully done sir!

I really miss my Hardinge 59 for doing stuff like that the machine was so ultra rigid doing anything with the form tool was just beautiful

how could you dislike mrpete222 ? I am from Iraq and adore this Man and His teachings and thoughts and above all his character . I now believe there are wasted skins floating on You Tube and do nothing but go Randomly disliking Videos because they dislike themselves and their pathetic existence . you keep up the great and priceless teachings mrpete222 , we love you and your videos .

Something i learned about welding is called Desirability Same with machining It becomes a cost of manufacturing We all have to trade time to make anything Its a matter of how much time we are willing to trade for a project Some people are obsessed with perfection Other are satisfied with use ability Some times doing more with less brings out the real craftsmanship Thanks for sharing your life long of learning so others can learn from you Am sure it doenst stop in the shop

Well done and very easy method to make the great tool. Great demo. Thanks Lyle for sharing.

Great video, nice job.

Thank you! For saying "radii" and, not "radiuses". Thumbs up!

Great work, those are handy skills to have, forming and heat treating! Thanks again Mr. Pete!

Thanks teach. Im a bit different ive ground tool bits for so long ill grind a high speed tool bit. Ive many different sizes of tool bits. Form tools were my specialty working in a turret lathe shop eons ago. Little layout and a 5/8 radius gauge and its done in about twenty mins.

That cut smoother than I expected. Thanks mrpete222

Thank you for this lesson, now i have a new tool to make for my wood lathe as well ! Thank you again Mr. Pete !

I really enjoyed this video mr. Peter, watching you shape and heat treat the tool all in your own home shop is really something to me and very interesting. This is the kind of meat an potatoes video we really enjoy, seeing you use your years of experience and skills to make this all look so easy and work so well. As you said this result looked better than the factory made part. I have to believe this kind of video really gives help and confidence to any young and aspiring machinists out there, well done sir.

Great job Lyle! It's always good to enjoy morning coffee with one of your vids. Best wishes from Argentina

another great video thank you

That's gooder than snuff and aint half as dusty! Only our "Mr Pete"!

Smoother than a school marms leg!

Thanks for the build series . Very enjoyable 👍

Slicker than a peeled onion. Thank you for posting!

That came out great! I keep a magnet next to my forge to check for critical temperature before heat treating. It’s not exact, but seems to work pretty well!

Great video Mr. Pete. Thank you.

Great discussion / demonstration

THANK YOU...for sharing. Nice idea, enjoyed.

Interesting idea

Good morning Mr. Pete. I'm apreciette your work, really is for me very good learning Whit you class.

That’s slicker than a toads tonsils after a summer shower!

Thanks Mr. Pete, learned something I can use in the future.

Nice! Beats free hand grinding them! Thanks for the videos.

Great video Lyle. Thanks for sharing

Thank you. Another great video Mr Pete.

Thoroughly enjoyed! Thanks, Mr. Pete! :-)

Another great video Mr Pete but for those of us who do not have a miller would have liked to see you make one with a drill press as you refered to in your high school days. Keep the vid's coming :-)

Nice job! My first inclination would be to stone the cutting edges to a fine finish (habit) but I can see that it was not necessary at all... I always want to complicate things... probably why I never get anything done...

Mr Pete, you should consider selling autographed pictures of yourself like RU-vidr Doug DeMuro. I bet a lot of people would like to have one hanging in their shop, myself included. Plus you would raise money for your channel.

Great work. Better than some of my work that turns out crooked as a dog's hind leg.

Smooth as a hounds tooth!

Thanks for this Mr Pete, I was wondering how you made the forming tool. I made a tool post adapter for my lathe which can hold milling cutters at right angles to the chuck. You can then use one flute of a corner rounding or radius milling cutter to cut the radius, works very well.

Very nice! I will have to try this.

Nice work sir.. Thanks for sharing..

That is pretty slick. Thanks.

wow good video .. Thanks Ed Loretto Ontario Canada

Considering you don't own a compound angle vice, perhaps you could make a compound sine plate in a future video series?

I never paid it much attention until you started this series but I've got a "float-lock standard" vise here in the shop that say "Pat Pend" no date on it though.

Great job on the hounds tooth

Reminds me of pushrods. I've debated on using the ones from the dead iron duke (engine from my previous pickup truck) for home shop made indicator stands. Initial tests indicate that they may be difficult to work with.

Great job , learned something 😁 thanks

Nice! Would it be an idea to add three more radii (different ones) on the other corners of the slab, thus making a 4-in-1 tool out of the same piece of tool steel?

Always love your videos...I have learned so much from you...thank you...Here's a question...I have recently acquired a very large assortment of solid carbide end mills and drills which appear to have never been used. Since you are working with tool steel, would this be a good use for solid carbide?

I'll be making one for the shop

I don't know if it's just me or would I like to do but I found it beneficial to clean up a piece like this on a 3M deburring wheel which are kind of expensive but if you use them sparingly and as they are intended to be used they last quite a while and they are worth their weight in gold as far as I'm concerned. But if you clean up a piece like this prior to heat treating it you can really see the colors and get a fairly accurate amber tempering on the piece just my opinion I don't know if anyone would agree with that but that's what I believe it's always worked out well for me not that I'm any kind of expert mind you

Explain to me why you questioned in water after you heat treated and Drew it back to a blue color

You are a treasure

Nice work.

I know that this is going to be a bit long winded but the angle vice that you have on the meal say if you wanted to drill a hole at a particular angle using a normal drill press you didn't have an end Mill widow's voice be able to hold the material and so that you could drill

Sweet!

Your safety bulletin in the beginning made me remember when I first started woodworking, before I understood the metal lathe. Looking for information I found a book with the author with an eye patch and a missing finger. Why would I take any advice from him. I wonder if he is still alive.

Awesome! :)

Never had any luck using form tools. I think you need a fairly heavy lathe I just get chatter when I try it.

Nice

What kind of oil is your heat treatment quenching oil? Is that just old crankcase oil from your tractor?

The one tool in my shop that I have never used, is a small engine lathe with a coffee can full of brass gears. I suppose that the best way to learn about it is to just jump in, but then my dad called me "crowbar" for a reason. Any recommendations on where to start?

Could you have chamfered some off the end first and reduced the chattering?

Could I use 1095 steel to do this? Thanks for your knowledge it is appreciated.

Seems that you need one more vise