Making the Ultimate Foot Vise! 

I plan on *selling a weld-yourself-kit and plans* for a new version of the vise. Sign up for the newsletter to stay updated! Tylerbellmakes.com

I think this is one of the best metalworking videos on youtube! GREAT WORK!!!

I really enjoy watching the vise improve with every version. Can’t wait to see what you come up with for vise 3.0.

So glad Alec introduced us to you, you’re an absolute delight to watch

You should add a pin to the jaw pivot mechanism so you can lock it in place for small parts, but still have the rotation available for large pieces. I really liked Alec's spring tension idea to give the pedal some resistance but I think you should make it increase the tension the closer the jaws get to each other. The resistance will give you much finer control of the clamping pressure. Maybe use a nonlinear spring that has an adjustable pre-load that you can tune to your preference. The last thing I'd suggest is a way of telescoping or raising/lowering the foot lever so you can adjust the clamping force as need be. Jason's demo was a great illustration. Sometimes you only need a couple hundred lbs of force. Being able to limit the clamping pressure would be a smart addition so you don't crush square aluminum tubing for example. Overall fantastic build and can't wait to see the MK3.

Your channel is going to have millions in a few months. Definitely the most underrated, highest quality channel I have come across in a long while. Your level of production is insane, your content itself is great and you have a likable personality. Keep up the great work!

Just take my money for this version. Please... I can’t wait any longer. Going to see Alec was a great idea. He is a hell of a guy and bright as the sun.

really happy i found this channel and all of these products, incredible work

This channel seriously deserves way more followers.

Glad to see your continued success. Looking forward to seeing what’s next. Well done sir.

Tyler, You are doing awesome as i always knew you would. i love how entertaining and honest you are in these! i cant wait to see how far you take it!

Great job Tyler! I really enjoyed watching this one!

Watching your enthusiastic design evolution is seriously infectious. Can't wait to see the next iteration!

Awesome vid! Keen to see more of the design iteration process

This is incredible, can’t wait to make one myself when you release plans

Holy crap! The holy trinity of making stuff! Awesome!😁😎👍

We've been waiting for this video for so long and you definitely delivered! The MK2 looks so raw yet so refined, it's beautiful engineering and craftsmanship!!

I love your energy! So easy to tell how much you love what you're doing!

I appreciate how you pointed out certain things that you either forgot or had ideas for improvements during the video. It is also great how you took it to a few other places, had some real tests and additional ideas for improvements. Something as simple as a spring. The quick and simple way that was tested with a bungee cord was awesome. It shows people how much a prototype isn't going to be perfect and how to try simple and quick ideas without wasting a bunch of trying to get the idea perfect. Sharing that any of us can come up with a design and have it laser cut is great

Ever since I saw it on Alec's channel, I've been excited to see this build video. Super impressive. Great job, Tyler!

Rad video, can't wait to see this channel blow up! Subbed!

Loving it Tyler! Cant wait to get one!

Awesome video man! The producing quality of these videos is great!

Wow, Tyler, the foot vise is really shaping up! So proud of your accomplishments so far!

Great great stuff, Tyler! what I liked the most was the suggestions from others. Maker alone can't always foresee all the potential points of failures and improvements likewise. Those insights were the most valuable part of the video I believe!!

Mate keep up the good work , I really enjoy your videos . looking forward to seeing how vice # 3 turns out . cheers. (:

I am a woodworker and maker, I can see a lot of uses for a wooden version of this, I can see a project coming on! A great idea that I can see becoming a must have item for a lot of makers.

Great video, well shot and edited. Vice looks awesome. So useful! Mahalo for sharing! : )

One idea to make aligning the whole thing easier could be to make one tab at each end the full thickness. I am not sure if that would do much, but I htink that this could help. You also could make small holes or lines into similar parts, this way you can avoid paying extra for laser etching. A really great project, and if I ever need such a vise, I'll get back to you!

This video was awesome! Keep up the great work!

Cool tool haven't seen one before. Thanks for sharing.

Well done. You need to be a bit more, excited! Haha, what a concept! You had an idea, made it real. Reinventing a design. These are the things to be presented to the younger generation of designers. Again well done.

Looks freakin awesome!

Bell right on love it. Keep up the great craftsmanship and hard work my friend keep making greatness.

You are one of the best youtube channels out there right now keep up the amazing work

Really appreciate your effort brother Nicely done

These video’s deserve more views!

I feel like RU-vid is a prophet. I was recommended your channel yesterday through that video, and now you're improving it. Edit my dumb brain can't comprehend your vs you're after midterms.

I love your energy

instant sub to see what improvements you make on the mk.3.

Just started watching your videos and there amazing!!!

Yea, this was great. I watch Alec and Fireball channels, and your quality and content are great! Subscribed. You win

Great video keep up the good work

Killing it!!

So cool Tyler! You crushed the video!!

Wait, this kid hangs out with Jason and Alec? How am I just finding your channel??

welcome back, Tyler! :D

That is really cool. Reminds me of how some toys used to come in those packs you would have to break apart so you could assemble it.

The quality of your videos is through the roof! Very nice balance between know-how and mayyyybe attainable levels of production. Keep it up, you're gonna have one of the largest metalworking channels on your hands!

Just wached your bottle opener video. Trust me when i say your chancel will blow up soon. Your content are amazing! Keep up the good work. - Mikkel from Denmark

The development and improving of a product you designed yourself is the most fun you can have, I really like seeing your progress on the way to a sellable product. what i can recommend to design products in 3D is the software autodesk inventor, I know it is a big step to buy this. i have it for free because i am a student so that deffently helps.

Thats freaking brilliant well done young man! I been toying with a foot clamp like this for working around my yard I have an old plow But im thinking about making the majority of it out of oak so it wont rust out.....

pretty cool vise

I've never been great at linkages, but I bet there's a passive linkage system that you could install running down the middle of the pivoting arm that attaches to the base or some fixed location to always keep the moving jaw parallel to the fixed jaw. Or if you want to take it a step (hah) further, you could make the whole moving arm a parallel linkage (essentially just a parallelogram)

Very cool!

Awesome Tyler 🙌

Awesome Video love it

Great video!! Absolutely love the idea and hope you succeed! I feel like you could take a few design ideas from mole grips? Having that spring mechanism to give you some feedback like Alex was saying while also it locking shut so you can walk away? That combined with a new leverage system as you suggested would make an all round amazing foot vice and a tool you couldnt live without!

Amazing bro

Alex’s channel made me find you and I am glad it did.

This is really smart, and useful. Also if you added a screw down section at the top to get a tighter clamp or use it as a locking mechanism to reduce fatigue would be great. Give you the quick ease of a foot vice mixed with the strength of a table vice

Brilliant project and design work Tyler, would suggest you up the volts on your welder if possible, some of those welds looked to be slightly cold lapped. Should almost be past dip and into spray transfer at 6mm (1/4") plate/fillets

This is really cool Tyler!

I'm not sure what I would use a foot vise for yet, but I want one!

For the similar looking parts, you could make the tabs different lengths so that you can't put the wrong part in the wrong place when you go to weld it.

the youtube algorithm really doesnt seem to like you. its an awesome project, i wont ever need something like this but i love watching the videos about it and taking stuff away from it that i can re-use on my own projects. keep doing those videos, i hope you will get a lot more traction on youtube soon!

Tyler Bell Rocks

WOOO FOOT VISE V2!!!

Hopefully the next part was filmed before Alec left for the UK... Awesome work! Edit: obviously you did, wish we could have seen a little more of that.

Awesome project! If I was making this vice for myself, I think I would want it to be held closed with a spring and then step to open, that way you could reposition yourself independent of the work.

Hey Tyler, great job man! I think you could replace the counterweight by designing the vise with parallelograms. That way it would stay parallel at any given time.

Should make the dynamic jaw pivoting and fixed. I'm definitely inline with ordering one!!

This young lad has a very bright future!

Looks good 💪👌

Taking just 6 months or 12 months of core ME courses will increase your ability to rapidly prototype stuff that works and doesn't fall apart catastrophically. And with more complicated and extreme builds you then have solid understanding and ability to calculate and interpret correctly (very important) results from simulations. Highly recommend it, even online or night school so you can keep working through it.

"Foot vices like this haven't been made for over a hundred years!" Batavia Croc Lock: aight imma head out

Nice tool! What about a parallelogram joint on the moving jaw to keep it paralell to the static one all along its movement.

Really great to see the progress of the different versions, and it will continue to be over the coming years! Also looking forward to seeing all the user modifications when it finally will be available to the public. It's probably a good idea to skip the free swinging jaw, but shouldn't it have a standard pivot to accept a piece of 1-2" width instead of zero clearance? Maybe have some kind of pin system to select jaw angles for different work piece widths?

Nice one 👍 instead of the tilting jaw you could use a curved face so as it pivots, smaller parts will be held higher in the jaws, also that’ll effectively be clamping on three points and help you hold different shape stock

Absolutely outstanding work! I'll buy plans the moment they're available! (Unless you can get me a deal on shipping halfway across the world!)

Oooooo I like this!!!

Adding the ratchet system would as you said allow it to lock. However, It would also allow it to pause before fully closing meaning it'd overcome the issue that Alec mentioned.

I can't wait to watch your subscriber count go straight to the moon!

Thanks for having cool sponsors instead of just another VPN

I reccomend getting .045 fcaw wire c25 75 argon. Absolute game changer.

another way you could do the self-leveling jaw without having the problem that occurs with clamping something in the upper third of the jaws is to just move the self-leveling mechanisms to the top half of the jaw, not the dead middle.

Very impressive Tyler 👍 If Jason likes it, you couldn't ask for a better endorsement.

You might try to make a parallelogram mechanism to keep the jaw parallel.

dude your vision insane to see a video of you and jessie James would be great am i the only one that would love to see that ?

With regard to almost identical parts, you can change the tab size and locations to force the parts into the right place.

Nice work! I wonder if a similar setup but using strong springs to keep it clamped and you use the foot pedal to release would be useful?

If I could afford it I would totally buy a kit. As a hobby blacksmith it would be just the tool I'm missing in my garage/shop. Been thinking about making one since I saw it on Alec's channel

I could use something simmilar for glass blowing using two part graphite molds

For the nearly duplicate pieces you could uniquely arrange the tabs so they are specific to location

Yea ill take the plans gladly

instantly subscribed 👍

@tylerbell keep the dynamic jae but add a locking pin to keep it from rotating when clamping smal stuff

Wow awesome Vise. Maybe you can move or redesign the position of hange axis of the flexible vise clamp(the one with mass balancer). But still, it is a good idea. BTW great video!!!! I love it

Instead of adding part numbers etched on it, you can have some corners be rounded, some tabs have a small notch, or something like that. That way, it's part of the same operation and won't add extra costs

That's really nice! Maybe you could make a version where it's always closed with a counterweight, and you have to push the pedal to open it. It would be easier not to drop the part if you're accidentally lifting your foot.