How To Make Chisel Holding Vise Grips

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Modifying Vise Grips to do a specific task is simple and easy. They lend themselves to being used in many ways other than their intended use. Modify a pair of your old ones and buy a new pair to replace them. This pair will surely find many uses around your shop.
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[@RonCovell]

Jere - very well done, indeed! I especially like the way you use spacers (and wedges) to get the alignment on the parts for tack welding. Clever, and effective!

[@jerekirkpatrick2092]

Thanks Ron. That's why I keep that tray of assorted pieces of on my welding table. Flat stock, bar stock, and tubing. There is enough to make up any combination of height or spacing without leaving the table. Jere

[@outsidescrewball]

Enjoyed…handy modification

[@jerekirkpatrick2092]

Hi chuck. You should make a pair. You will find them use full around the shop. Jere

[@RRINTHESHOP]

Nice new tool for the shop, great detail Jere. Thanks.

[@jerekirkpatrick2092]

Hi Randy. I use this tool quite often on the Treadle Hammer. Having made another one I can now leave my old on with the center punch setup. Jere

[@TheKnacklersWorkshop]

Hello Jere, Great stuff... thanks for explaining the process so well... Take care. Paul,,

[@jerekirkpatrick2092]

Hi Paul. Thanks for your kind words. I hope some of the stuff I show and explain will do you well. Have a great weekend. Jere

[@glennfelpel9785]

Jere I sure do like and appreciate your videos. You have a special knack of explaining things and showing how they are done. And I agree with you these pliers are the most useful of the 5 you showed previously. But they all have their place, for sure. For me, somehow it is very rewarding to make a tool. For some reason more rewarding then doing the regular jobs. Thank you for the video.

[@jerekirkpatrick2092]

Glenn. I was told a long time ago that "the sign of a true craftsman is one who makes his own tools. Sometimes it takes longer to make a tool than it does to do the repair. The tool is yours forever, the repair leaves the shop. Thanks for your comment. Jere

[@mattthescrapwhisperer]

Many thanks Jere. I already have the vise Grips, angle iron, and bar stock on the bench, prepped, and ready to fab!

[@jerekirkpatrick2092]

Hello Matt. Good job Matt. I'm sure you will find many other uses for them once you have them in hand. Holding round tubing to an angle iron welding fixture is another use. That speeds up a production job quite a bit. Thanks. Jere

[@mattthescrapwhisperer]

@@jerekirkpatrick2092 just to let you know, I finished them today and they turned out real well

[@jerekirkpatrick2092]

@@mattthescrapwhisperer I'm sure you will find them use full. Now you have a tool that your buddys don't. Jere

[@albertfox9923]

Thanks for the follow up. This is definitely a project that will be on the list. I like the use of the vice grip for holding smaller punches on pieces that come out of the forge.

[@jerekirkpatrick2092]

Albert. I made them originally for holding a slitting chisel for a railing I was making. Lots of slit and drift next to yellow hot material required a bit of distance. They are great under a treadle hammer also. Thanks. Jere

[@joell439]

Thanks Jere for another fine fab lesson. 👍👍😎👍👍

[@jerekirkpatrick2092]

Hi Joel. Are you a fabricator? I hope some of my stuff is use full to you. Thanks so much. Jere

[@danpickett9103]

i love how you make lemonade.

[@jerekirkpatrick2092]

Hi Dan. I got the recipe from some very smart men in my early years. Jere

[@Joe.Doucette]

Hi Jere, So whenever I have something happen that wasn't planned I can call it a "feature"? SWEET! Now you need to plate the new ones so they don't rust. ;) Have a good weekend, Joe

[@jerekirkpatrick2092]

Morning Joe.........See what I did there. You may also use "it was an alteration of design". I'm sure you can come up with something other than it was a mistake. I am moving a lot of stuff from my shipping area (having sold my blacksmithing business) to the shed I put up a while back. When complete I will have room to set up a permanent plating area. And yes you can believe they will be plated. Jere

[@Joe.Doucette]

Hi Jere, Mistake? RLE = Reiterative Learning Event. I just made that up and it sounds good. I think my work is done for the day. Oooo even more room. You are going to have a lot of space to fill up with new "stuff". I was pretty certain plating would occur. ;) Have a great day, joe

[@mordantly]

In manufacturing, any chamfer/fillet/radius/etc is either an extra or missing feature when conducting first article inspection.. QA loves it when you have extra features not on the print.

[@Joe.Doucette]

@@mordantly It's a good thing for QA that they don't have to deal with me then. ;)

[@jerekirkpatrick2092]

@@Joe.Doucette On the print??????????

[@homemadetools]

Good work. We shared this video on our homemade tools forum this week 😎

[@janq-h8139]

Real nice, I will make one of these

[@jerekirkpatrick2092]

Hello Jan. I'm sure you will find many other uses for them once they are in hand. Thanks for watching. Jere

[@Comm0ut]

I've taken to welding or brazing (whatever tool I'm using or nearest to at the time) side handles at various angles to punches and chisels. They take up little space making them idea for salvage yard use shearing chassis mount rivets etc.

[@jerekirkpatrick2092]

Hi Comm. Good idea for a single purpose use tools. Jere

[@fixinstuff9662]

I modified a set of vise grips to flange corners where my pneumatic flanger can't reach. If I wasn't lazy or busy (not sure which), I'd make a video for everyone to see... lol.

[@jerekirkpatrick2092]

Hi Stuff. A guy can do only so much. Thanks for watching. Jere

[@TheUncleRuckus]

You're not alone, I call all locking pliers Vise Grips too just like I all Adjustable Wrenches Crescent wrenches regardless of the brand. 😂

[@jerekirkpatrick2092]

Hi Panda. I guess we know what we are talking about and that's all that matters. You ask for a screwdriver or a phillips. Thanks. Jere

[@fixinstuff9662]

I've always just used a pair of unmodified vise grips to hold my chisel. It's always seemed to hold it without issue.

[@jerekirkpatrick2092]

Continue doing so. Jere

[@fixinstuff9662]

@@jerekirkpatrick2092 Thanks for the video.

[@kutitupkustomsfabrication756]

To all that are watching this and giving these negative comments don't in my business he's a legendary person thanks Jere

[@Rx7man]

I see no negative comments

[@jerekirkpatrick2092]

Thanks for your kind words. I hope my content helps you in your daily work. Learning is a never ending process. Like Gene Winfield says "every day is a school day". Jere

[@fixinstuff9662]

@@jerekirkpatrick2092 I wish Mr. Winfield had a channel also. He's already so busy though.

[@mordantly]

I was just about to make some out of the pair I found around the time of the other video. Good thing I didn't yet.. they are straight jaws. Any thoughts on this acid strip you mentioned vs 309 through the "chrome" plating?

[@jerekirkpatrick2092]

Hi Mr Wolf. The straight jaws will work just fine. I like the curved jaws when used as intended. Any method of removing the plating is fine. I think I removed it on the originals by sanding. Thanks for watching and your other comments in this thread. Jere

[@danpickett9103]

Muratic acid will remove the plating. Be very careful. Besides keeping it off your skin (and anything else you like), don't breathe the fumes.

[@tomthompson7400]

if after thirty years you cant actually hit the end of a chisel , maybe its time to quit.

[@jerekirkpatrick2092]

Tom. Noted. Jere

[@fixinstuff9662]

You don't quit when things become hard. You change the way you work, which might involve making a new tool.

[@mordantly]

Surprisingly, your dad hit the end of his chisel successfully. You must not have paid attention when the man explained they were for working with yellow steel. As in 2000F. How close do YOU get your hands to objects that are 2000F? A smart person gets only as close as required to get the job done.

[@fixinstuff9662]

@@mordantly I missed that, thanks! I do SOME smithing (minimal) on my homemade forge, so I might actually make this tool one day.

[@tomthompson7400]

@@mordantly so you dont work with steel then ,,,, when you do , feel free to comment , todays tip buy a longer chisel , most of mine are about 10 inches and I can comfortably cold chisel white hot steel , should I need to , but with a cordless grinder its a rare event these days , its slow and inaccurate . hth