I built this vice yesterday using your instructions. I couldn't be happier with the results!!! A quick easy build that cost next to nothing. Thank-you for making this video and keep up the great work!!
This is fab and I can see how one could customize the concept for dozens of different applications for different projects. And every time I watch a pro like you do even something "basic", as part of the process for making something like this, I learn something. Thanks Jack! Don't stop.....
!!!.NOW.!!! I have a proper use for my stock of near petrified true size 2x4 lumber that I saved from a very old house rehab. Modern lumber will be too flexible. OODLES of THANK YOOOUS for this inspiration Jack.
Ha, I first thought you built it like I did mine, it looked so similar. I only remembered a "vise" like that from school. Same with the angle block for a hand saw and the spread block clamp. These simple tools are the best! Well done.
Jack...Great simple and easily made clamp! You can NEVER EVER have enough clamps and your's is one of the best I've seen plus you can make several of these for the price of one 'box store' bought, plus they are lighter and probably last longer too! Thanks for sharing and safe turning and carving to you!!!
I saw this a while back, and liked it. Then, I started looking at other ideas by other sites, and I lost who did this! I found it again today, and I love the idea of the double dowels for a cross piece for the clamp, and will be making several soon (in different lengths) as they are just so much beefier and easier to truly hold the object to be clamped than I would feel using one with a single dowel. I also like using the eye bolt, as this is certainly strong enough, and does not require the step of working with epoxy to make a nicer handle, but not one that really adds to the usefulness of a shop tool. Thanks for you ideas, and I know you enjoy what you do.
I made a version of this Jack. Mine is around 3 and a half feet long and I use it to assemble molds I make. I cannot imagine not having it now. I guess mine is four or five months old. I hang it up over head with a pulley so when I need it all I have to do is let it down. Thanks for making my life easier.
Very clever. English is not my native language and the way and pace at how you explain everything is much appreciated by me and I´m sure for many more whose native language is not English. Thank you Jack.
I am watching and I am relaxed and ...........I wonder what I will be after making it, may be jumping with joy....very good workmanship, thanks for making me happy.
This video just gave me a "DUH" moment. Something so simple and useful. I've been eyeballing drill press vises and just can't justify the price for good one. But I can build one for under $10 or so now. Knurling the dowels is a great technique too. Thanks.
Thank you very much Jack!! It appears that you have some limitation with working with your hands and it probably comes much easier for others. As a middle aged man with R.A. myself, I find your video an inspiration as I tool like to do woodworking. Great Stuff!!
Hi Jack there is always room in the workshop for another clamp and this will be my project for next weekend, great trick with the file so simple you just know its going to be useful, best regards Mark
it was probably a case of using up some smaller offcuts and scraps. Why use a piece of 2*4 when you can just raid the scrap bin that's always the best place for spare parts IMO.
This is awesome!!! I have been needing a good clamp/vise. I will definitely try to make one! And the way you used the rasp on the dowels is definitely what I would consider to be a "Pro Tip"! I will be doing that to all the dowels I need to glue from now on. Thanks!!!
Thank you, I was looking a model of clamps because I need one in my little workshop and these model is perfect. I plan to do 3 like yours but using different measures to have variety.
This is a great idea, now I can solve my clamp problem, or the lac of. I needed to get clampes, but they can get pretty costly. I don't need to hold up any thing heavy so they would work very nice, thanks for making this video.
Absolutely love this one! I can see making several of the m and using in place of some bar clamps for larger projects! Thanks Jack, great video as always!
Great video and the instructions are perfect!! When I get those sqeaks, I put a little Johnson's wax on the thread. Stops the squeak and reduces wear. I'm very impressed with the quality of your video, the sound, the lighting, the angles, the works. Nice project too.
Good idea. I think that would work if or frames and boxes as well if you were to put mitred corners in place of the straight blocks. No limit to the length you can make them too. Thanks for the idea. Your saving people money now. I like that!!!
most of my clamps are either too large or too small for current projects. your idea is going to work great for the small boxes im making. simple yet great build! gonna get me a pair of those this weekend. thanks for the upload
I love this design its great Jack thank you sooo much. I made 2 of these from 4 pieces od 9 mm plywood and they can clamp piece thats 80cm long and they perform great. Thank you so much.
Hi, Jack. Loved the video. The simple, no frills designs are always the best. Going to attempt a larger modified version of this for gluing up reclaimed pallet wood sign blanks. Subscribed!
Really nice vice thanks for posting that idea. I also have most the vices you have - and yes they all have thier drawbacks. This vice with moveable jaws is the same they have for some machine shop vices that are not well known, but the same principle. It's like a miniture work bench! Again great job - I think now I will build one also.
As usual, simple but great idea! I built two ot them (a little and a bigger) and both are working like a charm ! Great thanks for the excellent idea Jack ! Greetings from Belgium :-)
smart idea jack . only thing i would do add a piece of wood to the handle to make it more comfortable to turn by hand . nice job , prob going to make this
Anche se non so molto bene l'inglese i tuoi video parlano da soli..... è da un po' che di seguo e mi sei stato di grande ispirazione .... grazie moltissime per la condivisione di tutto ciò !!!
Love the clamp great idea with my hands getting worse with the arthritis I can see using this clamp in the future a lot easier for me 😹 as for the squeaking a bit of candle wax should solve that problem or even WD40😹😹😹 Thanks for showing the making and use of the clamp I know it's solved a few problems I have been facing so it only means that you have solved quite a number of people's lives with this clampkeep the great ideas coming 😹🤗
Hi Jack, Good project for practical solution to the problems that you described. Good video and thanks for the good idea. Regards Colin Farrier Big Jig from Larne
this looks like the clamp I need to turn my Kreg Jr. into a Kreg 5.... they have a nice clamp permanently affixed to the base of their drill 'guides' that I don't have and I can see this screwed to the same base I have the Kreg attached to..... it would give me the variability needed for holding different thicknesses of wood... I think all I would need to do is to remove the end block as my wood would serve as the 'stop block'.... thanks so much for the details, this is totally doable and way more cost efficient....
That is such a good idea.... we got some eye bolts today, I'll be making some of these asap :) although a bit longer to use as bar clamps. Keep up the good work, love you're videos :D
Hey Jack, greetings from the uk :) , I enjoy your video's, always learn something new, in this case - knurling the dowels with a rasp to improve adhesion !, excellent idea, saves time trying to groove em with a hacksaw blade (weakening them in the process). informative enjoyable video's. Thanks...more please :) take care. K