Making A Bench Top Vise - Part One

[@theofficialczex1708]

Dear, Santa Aus, Please give Artisan Makes a bandsaw for Christmas. He's been nice this year.

[@marznoyb2732]

Nooooooo....... Please Santa urge AM to get a P.O Box, I need to donate a heap of hacksaw blades plus some other stuff. Merry Christmas AM and everyone else.

[@roireb1]

Beat me to posting this. The hacksaw clips drives me nuts.

[@lancer2204]

@@roireb1 why do you think he keeps them in? He's another Aussie shit stirrer at heart.

[@illectricjesus]

Was just about to post this haha.

[@Argosh]

You clearly lack character. Maybe get a character builder yourself!

[@douglashank8480]

That's awesome that you have something made by your great-great-grandfather. I think he would have been proud to see the work you do.

[@ikkiiiieee]

About the warp of the steel: you also smacked it with a hammer to get it off the big steel block you had

[@killsode4760]

The bend did then disappear when he heat treated it.

[@blackoak4978]

He cut it into three... Each bow would have been reduced to a third just from that

[@artisanmakes]

There’s footage of the before and after of each individual piece that was not included in the edit. The heat treat was what bent it back.

[@jeremylastname873]

The hammer’s impact caused significantly more localized distortion than generalized. Think about the challenge of trying to deliberately curl a 1” piece of steel with a hammer. With each blow, it would bend some nearly-measurable amount, and spring back. A daunting task indeed. 😂

[@Flying0Dismount]

​@@artisanmakesThe big bend before was over the entire length of the bar and the after was the cut piece. If you just compare the end part, there's not much difference before and after. You almost certainly caused most of the bend by hammering and chiseling the part off.. And continuing to display your crap cutting skills is just getting old at this point.. Just get yourself one of those cheap portabands already... I have one that I bought at the local equivalent of Harbor Freight that I bought on sale for $120 more than 10 years ago, and it's seriously one of the most used tools in the workshop

[@ashesman1]

I am always amazed at the finish you get straight off the mill. Almost looks like it's been ground!

[@RCake]

Your grandpa would be way proud of you 🤩😍🤩

[@trumanhw]

I've grown to really like your content. And you really do a lot with a little.

[@bluejayfabrications2216]

I often think the same thing

[@merkyworks]

Great build

[@infrabread]

Somehow I forgot that you are on a different hemisphere to me, and was confused when you mentioned "heatwave".

[@a-k-jun-1]

Same here for a second, central Alaska

[@howder1951]

Yes in my hemisphere, it would have bent in the opposite direction.

[@hairymcnipples]

it's as hot as satan's gooch down here rn

[@hairymcnipples]

It's as hot as satan's gooch down here rn

[@MedicMainDave]

I am excited about the fact that there are actually still people out there who use the original anycubic photon!

[@Awrethien]

Yep still using mine here. Use it until it breaks, fix the broken part with something better. Why mine has a monochromatic replacement screen, and a replacement noctua fan to the air filter. All that's broken on the original so far. Now the ender 3 I have... that things a Frankenstein lmao.

[@MedicMainDave]

@@Awrethien my anycubic mega zero is also a ship of theseus. Originally it didn't have a heated bed, so I just retrofittet one :P

[@Destros2ndone]

a desk vice (or third hand) is always a good thing to have made mine out of three aluminium bars, spring loaded so, no screwing arround ;)

[@LukeTrundell]

Couple notes on the off chance you haven't already reached the same conclusions; Thrust bearing !!!! - Having that flat mating face on the end of the lead screw rubbing against that hard jaw will work, though you won't get much clamping force due to the friction. I recommend deepening the bore inside the moving jaw and turning a recessed land into the end of the lead screw so you can install a thrust bearing at the end of the lead screw. Even better, drill a hole and cap it off with a one-way interface fitting so you can keep it topped up with oil to extend the life of the whole vise ! Oil passages on the vice sliders!!!- I think it would definitely be worth either scraping the surfaces or putting some kind of gulley/ texture on the moving jaw/ vice slides interfaces so that, again, you can keep it lubed up and ensure that your homage passion project stands the test of time 😁 And for god sakes - buy a handheld electric bandsaw already 😂😂 hang it off the wall when you're not using it, this hacksaw business has got to stop ! I bet your arm looks like quagmires by now lmao! Love your videos man, keep on trucking ❤🤙

[@savage_x89]

Excellent design and fabrication. Very inspiring!

[@merc7105]

Thanks for the videos this year. Have a good Chrissy. Cheers.

[@andrewdolinskiatcarpathian]

A beautifully constructed vice and a pleasure to watch. Your grandfather would be proud of you. Merry Christmas to you. 🎅👍🍷

[@darrellbedford4857]

Nice build from leftover metal. Can't wait for part 2. Happy Holidays.

[@billgilbride7972]

I always enjoy your work. You have developed a unique manner of explaining the how's and why's of machining in a home shop format. When will you build a power hacksaw? You have earned passage from hand sawing. As a compliment, I have never seen anyone even near your level of hacksaw cuts under the belt! Thanks for sharing your work!

[@ClintsHobbiesDIY]

Thanks very much. Merry Christmas everyone.

[@connahjones8178]

One more video until 200!! Congrats!

[@RalfyCustoms]

Hi buddy, have a wonderful Holiday, thanks for sharing this the last year, best wishes to you and yours Ralfy

[@calebfaires9782]

Always for get y'all's season are flipped in the southern hemisphere lol. Hard to imagine it being summer in December when I'm having to scrape my windshield every morning.

[@pettere8429]

Am I the only one seeing a lopsided smiley face in the edge of the bench at around 3:30?

[@WaddedBliss]

Excellent work.

[@Schraubfreak]

Thanks for your great work.

[@jrkorman]

I think the "old man" would be proud of your work. Have a Merry Christmas!

[@seldendaniel8819]

Inspirational.

[@t0mn8r35]

Very nice project. Well done as always. Merry Xmas and Happy New Year!🎄

[@bulgieR]

Very enjoyable, thanks. More!

[@Horus9339]

She's a looker, great work once again. Leaving us on a cliff hanger, you swine. lol Merry Christmas to you and yours.

[@stringmanipulator]

awesome work as always

[@richardandrews6754]

great video, have a fab Christmas and new year

[@paulshermet535]

Merry Christmas from Canader.

[@BeN0lf]

whoa, Artisan Makes has a body?!

[@notoioudmanboy]

Little Bunnings cast iron vise is surprisingly good with a little TLC. First one I ever owned. bit of a clean up and some soft jaw attachments. Mine came quite parallel. Solid place to mount it did me for quite a while before I got a proper bench.

[@danceswithaardvarks3284]

Looks fantastic (nearly as nice as your Grandfather's vice). Funny, I was thinking only today that I need to make one of these for myself.

[@jackdawg4579]

You should have counter sunk the other side for the rivets as well, would have made it easier and stronger. Generally they dont recommend cold setting rivets bigger than 6mm in diameter, but i have done so with no issues. I think it is probably more about the economy of time, it takes a lot of work to cold set a big rivet. I recently did a wagon wheel centre with 10 x 8mm rivets cold because i didn't want to risk scorching the wooden hub. I was buggered by the time I finished them all!

[@mundaryus]

It looks so professional

[@johnmoore1025]

Merry Christmas to one and all

[@alankeith7866]

Wishing you and your family a very Merry Christmas!!!

[@troyam6607]

Just a tip, it could be your camera speed but IMO your speeds when chamfering and drilling with larger drills needs to be way slower, itll stop the chatter and give your more control. Brilliant Vice cobba.

[@artisanmakes]

Theres a bit of chatter but the torque on the motor drops off a cliff below 500ish rpm, so for the larger drills I have to run them faster than i'd like to keep them cutting

[@cncgeneral]

I would've gone for bolts rather than rivets. Bolts are stronger and can be easily tightened or replaced if clamping forces stretch them

[@richardlongley00]

the warping may have been caused by the cold rolling process but, more than likely, by the cleaving that was done to separate the piece from the mother block. Get a band saw.

[@SethKotta]

Buying tools and using tools are two separate hobbies

[@richtes]

Are you required to use them? If not it might be good to have a reference to show my wife when she’s complaining about all the tools around

[@Narwaro]

This man talking about heat waves sounds so surreal to me in northern europe. Its snowstorms, hail and freezing winds, -2° max 🫣😂😂

[@mopedmarathon]

If a tap doesn’t have a centre ground or punched in it you can put the tap in a mill or pillar drill chuck and start it with the handle of the chuck key in the chuck key hole. If you’re brave you can start it with the machine by turning the power off just as the tap touches the workpiece.

[@kennethstaszak9990]

Looking good.

[@rjordans]

If you're looking for a vice to hold pcbs you may look at the stickvise design. Should be easy to replicate with some scraps

[@ogaugeclockwork4407]

Cold riveting is actually best. Hot rivets are more inclined to work loose because the shank shrinks in the hole.

[@kenwood9401]

nice looking vice Happy Holidays to you

[@rjung_ch]

This is coming along nicely, can't wait for the next steps 👍💪✌

[@Darkassassin09]

You really should have heated those rivets before hammering them over. When a hot rivet cools, it shrinks pulling the two parts tighter together. You're left with a much more secure connection that's less likely to shift.

[@Der_Ed]

You should collect the chips all year and melt them down into a chunk of mystery metal and do a mystery metal smithing project at the end of the year

[@alanclarke4646]

Isn't that what "Chinesium" is made from?

[@an2thea514]

@@alanclarke4646 Yes, that and Pig Metal.

[@wordwyrd]

Both of the grinding vises I made used a pair of interference fit dowels to locate the fixed jaw.. I'd be interested to see how your solution holds up long term.

[@benni5941]

The bend in the steel could be due to the special percussive separation it went through.

[@hazza2247]

there is no chance that that hammer could bend steel that thick

[@allangoodger969]

Mate. I am hoping Santa brings you an LPG/Oxy set so you can cut and hot rivet stuff. The advantage of hot riveting the shaft expands to the hole size. May your crissy be a happy and bushfire free.

[@PatHardesty-q5g]

I like that project, I want to make one , I have a good size mill & lathe but I want it Precision . I don’t have a Surface grinder but I’ll try to get it close . I need one to put in my 6in mill vice for angles on small parts

[@sparkiekosten5902]

Merry Xmas

[@komplikatorful]

Just an idea - wouldn't it be better if the moving jaw was "reversed"? Meaning the mechanism would be the same, but the thiner clamping piece would be on the back so it would do the "pulling" instead. That would make it less prone to bowing/stressing and should provide much better clamping situation? Anyway great vid and all the best to the new year - take care & don't stick you fingers in the running machinery 😎

[@mike9500]

way to GRIP the end of the year! ;)

[@alanclarke4646]

D'oh! 😂😂

[@chriscorrigan7420]

Maaaaate!!! You need saw of some type, so do I. You do well with a sweatsaw. Elbow bustin' bastards of thing's but they do the job. That's quite a nice little vice you have there. All the best for the silly season to you.

[@tk-cv6yz]

You need a bad saw mate, unless you like this hacksaw exercises. 😁

[@andrews6517]

Id have located the end pieces with press fit dowels

[@jacehardin7828]

Good ole hacksaw never gets old, but someday he will get a bandsaw

[@thecatofnineswords]

I daresay that even if we all chipped in to buy him one, He'd still pull out the hacksaw to keep the channel honest.

[@stirlicz]

You should build a metal bandsaw 😀

[@dokmetasonur]

Artisan handsaw everyting!

[@Dreddip]

Somebody please get this guy a portaband.

[@ThatRobHuman]

Have a look at Chris Borge's 3D Printable Ball Vise.

[@SvWarfield]

It wouldn't be an Artisan Makes video if he didn't have to cut a thick piece of steel by hand with a hacksaw. That said, we need to get this man a metal cutting bandsaw XD.

[@4GibMe]

NO We need to sit back and just enjoy the Video. It's his shop, and he does things his way. Never walk into someones shop and tell me how it should be. If you did that in my shop you would be nursing a black eye, a broken nose, with an impression of the side of the door embedded in the side of your head.

[@SvWarfield]

@@4GibMe Yeah ok there bud XD

[@kb135]

Hacksaw… or, as the really cool kids call it: the character building saw

[@jacehardin7828]

​@@4GibMeokay tough guy

[@Handleyman]

Love your channel and always enjoy your projects. So why didn’t you heat the rivets up? Even just a little. The join would have been infinitely stronger. Anyway, great work and your grandfather would be proud! Merry Christmas. Gippsland.

[@ThanasisThomas]

can i mig weld hss tool on mild steel to make custom tool?

[@cobre7717]

Holy cow. The amount of idiots telling you to get a band saw is epic. You should do a review video on a bunch of different hacksaw frames and blade you have tried throughout the years.

[@alan-sk7ky]

Red loctite wouldn't have gone amiss in the rivet holes I think.

[@jimscheltens2647]

I wonder how often you change hacksaw blades

[@alanclarke4646]

He's got it down to such a fine art, he's quicker than an F1 pitstop! 😂😂

[@Lucas_sGarage]

Next year will we see a band saw build?

[@shoumikahmed6373]

I am wondering what tools your great grandfather had and what tools you have.

[@christopherleveck6835]

Maybe it's a coincidence that the bend is in the same direction as you were banging on it with a hammer?

[@Blue.4D2]

⭐🙂👍

[@MrCirqueMaudlin]

OK now i know he is messing with us.... I was shur he was about to break out some sort of powered saw when he said wait....also this confirms my suspension that he is secretly training for a arm wrestling competition....

[@Dermot-t2d]

Great job mate. Do you have a patreon account

[@michaelwaldron3222]

Wouldn’t it have been better to have countersunk the underside to accept more of the rivet shanks expanded by hammering? Then you could have flycut that surface too!

[@thanos_vgenis]

1:55, you're wedging that piece off the stock it was attached to, there is your bow

[@АнтонМинашкин-в5к]

Why don't you use a power feed on your milling machine?

[@wombora]

Shows how he hammered that piece of the bigger piece of steel - oh yeah the bow in the steel is definitely 100% from the cold rolling process XD

[@hazza2247]

those hammer hits could never bend steel that thick

[@artisanmakes]

A heat treat wouldn’t be able to bend it back if it was bent from hammering

[@JamesP_TheShedShop]

Right on 👍🏻. Come on VEVOR send this fellow a bandsaw!

[@TheMadJoker87]

3:02 Nope! you used a chisel to finish the cut on the previous video and you bent it that way, i was screaming at the screen when i saw you do that xD the fact that it straightened after normalizing further proves this, if the bend was a result of releasing stress you would have to "add" stress to bend it back

[@artisanmakes]

No, a heat treat wouldn’t be able to bend it back if it was bent from hammering. Thats permanent deformation that would be done with a hammer and a hammer that size would not be able to bend it that much.

[@artisanmakes]

FWIW i did a heat treat deep dive a while back (and we did a similar experiment in uni) where I milled off a huge chunk off one side of a piece of cold rolled steel and observed it warp upwards. Applying heat to one end and letting slowly progress upwards had it warp further until the part was fully red where it then returned to its original flat state.

[@TheMadJoker87]

@@artisanmakes fair enough, but go back to your cross slide part 1 video and pause at 6:18 and tell me you cant see the metal bending, your beating added 90% of the stress in this particular case. at 6:08 is pretty straight, 10 seconds later is bending like a banana

[@Vikingwerk]

You gotta quit buying cold-rolled steel. Where I am, it costs more than hot rolled steel, so I was baffled when you used cold rolled to begin with, especially knowing how cold rolled will warp.

[@artisanmakes]

Look. I don't have much choice when buying metal. I am not a machinist and unless I buy 6m of metal I am stuck with buying cold rolled in thicker lengths. Where you are buying metal may be easy/cheap, where I am it is so expensive (and I cannot stress that enough). So no, I can not just buy any metal is any shape and size that I want. I know the issue with CRS, I just dont have much choice in the matter

[@Vikingwerk]

@ Apologies, I was not trying to be judgmental; you’ve made it clear before that your options are limited. I was mainly noting that I found it strange that you are limited to cold rolled, which is the much more expensive option here in the US, so I found it puzzling that it is the more economical choice there. Your metal suppliers clearly work much differently than ours. You clearly know how to work around the problems, so I would argue that you probably are a machinist now, just with the ‘self taught’ prefix! 😎.

[@HouseholdDog]

I guess you trying to peel it off the block, like a bannana skin, didn't bend the steel?

[@sinadaneshkhah8537]

Hello The part that is exactly 10:00 the time of video: Why didn't you do it in one piece? Best regards

[@artisanmakes]

I am using what I have. Just a limitation of the material sizes

[@sinadaneshkhah8537]

But you cuted the matrial from big matrial

[@artisanmakes]

Big material that is not big enough

[@_Mezzanine]

Someone PLEASE gift this man a band saw!

[@suntzu6122]

Does your lathe automatically cut thread :0

[@Kineth1]

Most machinist lathes have a power feed function, you can set exactly how much the cutting tool moves for each revolution of the part. You just use a feed setting that matches your desired thread pitch.

[@timturner7609]

Don't blame the steel for bending when you sheared it off with big old wedge

[@blackoak4978]

And hit it repeatedly with a hammer...

[@nathanpennell1587]

Yeah I was thinking the same thing lol

[@jaredwilliams5252]

Pounding it with a hammer to finish busting it of other piece probably didn’t help keep it straight 😂

[@jonnyphenomenon]

I can't shake the feeling that the hunk of steel is warped because @1:55 you beat the tits off of it trying to peel it off of the main slab when you couldn't manage to cut it all the way through... but I could be wrong. :)

[@jays_metalworks9399]

You bent that separating it

[@PaleoWithFries]

1:54. It sure looks like it bent as you hammered it off.

[@UncleKennysPlace]

Yep. Once can bend things with a hammer, I've found.

[@euclidallglorytotheloglady5500]

Pretty sure that "warp" was caused from the barbaric manner it was removed from the parent material.. but ok.

[@artisanmakes]

A heat treat wouldn’t be able to bend it back if it was bent from hammering

[@Misimpa]

Part one. Not so simple task?😆

[@thorloki5449]

How's your finger doing.

[@YooProjects]

Great to see the creative approach and dedication in a project like the vise built in the video. It reminds me of my own project where I created a vise using a screw. kzbin.info/www/bejne/kGnaaaOZlpytpcU. In both cases, you can see how focusing on the small details and making use of available materials can lead to functional and impressive results. The discussion on processes like heat treatment and maximizing material use is something I can completely relate to. Thanks for the inspiration

[@OuroborosArmory]

The beating it off with a hammer might also have something to do with it…

[@andrews6517]

Drilling without spotting and tapping without lube...tsk tsk! Lol