The Secretly Useful Tool for Small Parts: Machining My Own Hand Vise

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• BL

  @BlackBeardProjects · 1 year ago · pinned

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• TV

  @Tvngsten · 1 year ago

  We all have our vices

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• AV

  @aviweisbach7816 · 1 year ago

  Beautiful tool. And one of the best shot and edited &quot;make a tool&quot; videos I&apos;ve ever seen.

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• VA

  @vandalsgarage · 1 year ago

  I&apos;ve known those as Lowell Pattern Vises, they are common in the jewelers trade. &nbsp;And useful for pulling wires

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• WI

  @willythekid78 · 1 year ago

  I want one please... &nbsp;That one there in the video would be fine!

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• IT

  @Itkovan · 1 year ago

  The only thing about the version you made that i think could be improved upon outside of the knurling for the handle at some point, would be the &quot;mating surfaces&quot; of the jaws themselfs, now they seem to meet at a &quot;point&quot; at the top, which might cause them to leave markings if you tighten too much or if the item you&apos;re holding is softer than the jaws themselves.<br>Making them meet on either a flatter and equal angle might help with that.<br><br>I would also consider with the current jaw-angles to round out the &quot;top&quot; of each jaw surface, so that they don&apos;t meet at a &quot;point&quot; if you do indeed want to keep the current angle of the mating surfaces.<br><br>Mind you, I am NOT a machinist, nor do i work in a tool-shop, these are just the thought of a guy who&apos;ve seen far too many tool-videos on Youtube with little real-life experience on the matter when it comes to this.<br><br>Dear god i&apos;m sounding like such a wannabe know-it-all when i read this back to myself...

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• WA

  @WalterCobb-sn1hp · 1 year ago

  Great craftsmanship skills

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• VI

  @victor-petrunicolae8442 · 1 year ago

  Dude, don&apos;t take this the wrong way, but you sound like G-man gave up on finding Gordon Freeman and started his working in his own eastern European machine shop

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• YO

  @yotamgosh · 1 year ago

  A slightly larger version of this would make an excellent nutcracker!

• AS

  @asvarien · 1 year ago

  You should make a spring loaded tap follower.

• ST

  @stephenbridges2791 · 1 year ago

  Very nicely done.

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• TH

  @thewolfin · 1 year ago (edited)

  The only thing I would add is some knurling on the handle part. Well built!<br>edit: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LLQk9bibGE&amp;t=1175">19:35</a> welp nvm

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