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06-11-2007, 03:32 PM
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Uncle Remus
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Lakeville Ma.
Posts: 14,773
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Homemade Vise
I am a frugal Yankee, cheap as my wife says, and can't justify spending the kind of money they get for rotary vises. I have the means to do it so I built my own. I studied Slips vise and looked at the Renzetti catalog and built one similar to the 600 plus dollar one they offer. Mine is made completely out of Titanium scraps I have been saving over the years from previous jobs. I did break down and buy the jaws as I didn't want to take the time to make them. Some things are better off bought. It will be a pleasure to use and I can't wait to retire my PIA 18 dollar one. Paul
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"A beach is a place where a man can feel he's the only soul in the world that's real"
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06-11-2007, 04:56 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Portsmouth RI
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Very impressive!! Great job!  |
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06-11-2007, 04:59 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Here and There Seasonally
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Prof, you slay me, you had me at swivels...Nice work!
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He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
Thomas Paine
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06-11-2007, 05:14 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: North Fork
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Excellent craftsmaship Paul!! Were is mine?  |
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06-11-2007, 07:55 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: Framingham, MA, USA
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Nice job, that looks like one from the store, even better a custom made one.
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06-11-2007, 08:37 PM
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Registered Grandpa
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: east coast
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WOW P., cutting edge space age technology. AWESOME!!!!
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" Choose Life "
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06-12-2007, 12:24 PM
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It's about respect baby!
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: ri
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Wow Prof. I knew you were good but WOW!!! How many plugs do you want for it?
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Domination takes full concentration..
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06-12-2007, 12:34 PM
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Stuck In Reality
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Holden MA
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Seriously that is insane.
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06-12-2007, 01:05 PM
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Uncle Remus
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Lakeville Ma.
Posts: 14,773
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Thanks guys. One of the only perks you get when you are a machinist, you can make crap that you are too cheap to buy or you figure you can make better. It was a fun project as I got to take my time and pick away at it in my spare time at work. Vic figuring the aluminum one is 600 plus bucks and titanium at 65 a lb now I'd say and even 1000 and its yours  . |
"A beach is a place where a man can feel he's the only soul in the world that's real"
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06-12-2007, 01:22 PM
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Old Guy
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Mansfield, MA
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WOW!!!!
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06-12-2007, 04:46 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: New Haven County, CT
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Beautiful job!
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06-12-2007, 07:40 PM
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Super Moderator
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: Middleboro MA
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Outstanding Paul 
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The United States Constitution does not exist to grant you rights; those rights are inherent within you. Rather it exists to frame a limited government so that those natural rights can be exercised freely.
1984 was a warning, not a guidebook!
It's time more people spoke up with the truth. Every time we let a leftist lie go uncorrected, the commies get stronger.
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06-12-2007, 09:00 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: North Fork
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Only a 1000 i have a 1000 shekles i can mail you.
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06-13-2007, 10:34 AM
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DDG-51
Join Date: Mar 2002
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wow - thats a thing of beauty. I can only imagine how good the fly's will look.
well done. |
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06-13-2007, 07:32 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: New Haven County, CT
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I remember making one out of a clothespin and a rubber band, but it didn't look nearly as good as that one!
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06-14-2007, 06:40 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2002
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Slipknot
Outstanding Paul
That is friggin perfect |
i couldn't have said it better
now you need to make one of those striper weather vanes
for your roof |
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06-14-2007, 04:44 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Springfield, MA
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I've tried to tie flies with the hook in a pair of forcepts stuck between my knees. That thing is awesome. Nice machine work, congrats.
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06-14-2007, 04:44 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: some where on the water
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VERY NICE!
GOOD LUCK GOOD TYIN
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06-14-2007, 09:05 PM
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Shorts and Sandals
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: southeastern mass
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Outstanding, how many hours to make that Paul?
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06-15-2007, 08:13 AM
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Uncle Remus
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Lakeville Ma.
Posts: 14,773
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Actually a pretty simple project. Only challenge was the jaw holder aspect. I picked away at it for 2 weeks, few minute here and there. If I sat down and went right thru it probably 10 hours. Next one would be quicker because I have a plan now, but ones enough. I'd also do a few things differently. I picked titanium as it is a pleasure to work with compared to stainless.
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"A beach is a place where a man can feel he's the only soul in the world that's real"
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06-15-2007, 01:04 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Middletown, RI
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Absolutely beautiful ProfessorM. Good machinists and toolmakers are a dying breed and I'm glad to see you're still at it.
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07-12-2007, 11:12 AM
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Captain Pete
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: CT
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Impressive.
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07-12-2007, 02:18 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Back to C.Cod x'd Rangeley Me.
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THAT'S NOT BEING CHEAP!!! THAT'S BEING SMART.  |
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07-12-2007, 11:31 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2006
Posts: 71
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Beautiful job!!! I was thinking of making something to hold 7/0 and 8/0 siwash hooks but my guess is it won't be that nice. Probably closer to Chinese vice grips welded to a rod welded to a base.  |
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08-04-2007, 10:27 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: south hadley ma
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Very nice work on the vise. Now if you really wanted to save some cash you need to learn how to tie with out using a vise. I saw an old film with Lee W. do it that way. Looked like a size ten or so. Very cool to watch. ThomT
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08-05-2007, 11:27 AM
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The Black Dog - Emma
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Central Jersey (Hightstown)
Posts: 439
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sweet work Paul
How big of a siwash will the jaws hold?
Reason I'm asking is I broke mine (Renzetti). |
Ride the spiral to the end...............
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08-05-2007, 07:40 PM
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Uncle Remus
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Lakeville Ma.
Posts: 14,773
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Hey Brian I think it should hold at least an 8/0 hook but maybe bigger. It is the saltwater vise jaws they sell. I got the saltwater ones as I figured I would never be doing anything too small.
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