steve m 0 Posted February 16, 2012 Share Posted February 16, 2012 Here are some photos of my knife vise. The swivel set up as you can see in the photos is made in out of a trailer hitch ball. The vise is made out of aluminum and HTML plastic and I used bicycle quick releases to make clamping the blade or Tang fast and easy. Link to post Share on other sites
bronzetools 0 Posted February 16, 2012 Share Posted February 16, 2012 Sweet!!! thanks for the idea. Give your dog a treat for me. Steve Link to post Share on other sites
JJ Simon 123 Posted February 16, 2012 Share Posted February 16, 2012 That's great. Link to post Share on other sites
steve m 0 Posted February 17, 2012 Author Share Posted February 17, 2012 (edited) Thanks I hope it gives you some ideas. I always enjoy when other people post pictures of homemade tools and tooling. Making your own tools allows you to customize them the way you like them and saves money. Mattie my red healer thanks you for asking me to give her a treat. Edited February 17, 2012 by steve m Link to post Share on other sites
Jerry Fisher 0 Posted February 17, 2012 Share Posted February 17, 2012 Nice vise Steve but might I suggest that you put a support plate underneath the blade, thats a dangerous situation with that blade point exposed like that. Drop something on the floor and not pay attention and you could end up running into it. Been there , almost done that. Just a thought. Jerry Link to post Share on other sites
steve m 0 Posted February 17, 2012 Author Share Posted February 17, 2012 good idea Jerry I have ben a little conserned about that. I make shure to not leave the knife in the vise when not working on it. but things can happen so a gard is probabley wise. Link to post Share on other sites
Dave Stephens 428 Posted February 17, 2012 Share Posted February 17, 2012 Outstanding idea! Totally stealing that one! Link to post Share on other sites
Stephen Stumbo 46 Posted February 17, 2012 Share Posted February 17, 2012 I'm with Dave, that is totally being copied! Link to post Share on other sites
ZebDeming 4 Posted February 17, 2012 Share Posted February 17, 2012 Awesome, very clever! I brought home an old 2" ball, that I knew I was saving for something, today from work. I'm working on building a couple benches this weekend to move the mill and make room for knifemaking stuff, I'm gonna build one of these as well. Thanks for sharing! Zeb Link to post Share on other sites
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