Workbench Vises - 232

in my last video I showed you step-by-step how I made this particular workbench and in this video I'm going to cover the vices that I installed on it now I've got a quick release cast iron vise on that side used as a tail vise I've got a leg vise right here that you can see and you can't really see it but on this side I've got a twin screw pipe clamp style vise and the front jaw is quick release and removable just slips into place this works very well for wider panels and it's budget-friendly because it uses just pipe clamps for the device itself I do have plans available for the workbench for devices and the Forge drawer cabinet that I will eventually put down below I'll cover the cabinet in the next video but if you're interested in the plans for this I have them in Imperial and metric versions there is a link down below you click on that link and you'll find the plans but anyway let's get down to business and I'll show you exactly how I installed these vices so this vise is very heavy I dropped it the very first time I took it out of the box and I chipped some paint off the bottom of it not the end of the world but it was kind of a bummer so to install it it's super simple just line it up where you want it clamp it in place drill some holes and insert some lag bolts or lag screws and that's it that's these are the easiest vices to install you just bolt them on there commercially available and that's that not much to this one so it's actually been about two days since I installed this vise and I've added some temporary one and a half inch thick jaws to this thing it's just some scrap from the workbench and I'm not exactly sure if I'm going to leave these on here make something different because I'm not exactly sure where the dog holes will be when I make when I put them in the table if I use the actual pop-up dog with device I'll have to bring them in about six inches or so and I don't know if I want them that far into the table or if I want to thicken up this movable jaw and put a dog in it so I can keep it about two inches or so from the edge not exactly sure but I guess I can figure that out in time for the horizontal twin screw vices I'm using pipe clamps they are very inexpensive I've been using this particular system for a couple years now and I absolutely love it and because it is pipe clamps it is quick-release so you can use them very fast and efficiently now I'm using half inch pipe clamps I've never thought any time that I've been using these setups that man I wish I had more power for the clamping force and I wish I would've went with 3/4 inch pipe clamps which are more expensive so I'm sticking with these the only downside to this particular vise that I already have made is the work table that it's attached to so it's very annoying when you're trying to to work on something and the whole system is wiggling around so that's why I'm using this vise set up on the work bench for the leg vise I picked up a really nice hardware kit from Dima gamma u Knopf here on YouTube he's got a video showing you how to make your own hardware kit and he's also got some of these complete hardware kits available so if either one of those interests you I'll post links down below to his his video showing you how to make one be sure to subscribe to his channel by the way when you're there you make some really cool stuff as well as the completed hardware kit if you just want to pick one up like I did but before I can mount any one of these vices I need to go ahead and make both of the jaws I very carefully flipped the workbench over this is the leg opposite of leg vise and I've already installed one of the pipes and now let me show you how easy this is to do so this piece right here this lower piece is going to determine the spacing in between the pipes so if you want more space you make this piece longer if you want less space to make it less I've got 23 inches in between the pipes the way that this is right now so this gets screwed down into place like so now that this is mounted I'm using a couple nails as shims these are just little finished nails I'm going to use it as a shim to space the pipe out just slightly and then put the other bracket on the other side now I can remove these shims and these will just prevent the pipe from binding as its pulled in and out this gives it just a little bit of wiggle room which is fine as you can see I cut this one a little bit not as deep as it should be but that's okay it's not going to matter any but this should have been the same width as this now I can install the cap but before I install the cap I just want to tell you that the height of these is determined by placing the pipe flat on a work surface and whatever the distance is from the top of the pipe to the work surface that's the thickness of these that way once this is flipped upside down and gravity is pointing in the other direction this will hit the bottom of this cap and then the pipe will remain parallel with the bottom of the work bench so as you can tell this gets glued on now to attach the rear jaw of the pipe I drilled two holes in here and it'll just be screwed in place now make sure that the placement of these is facing out so that on this side it's easier to around this way and then deactivate the pipe clamp like so and then on the opposite side make sure it's on the outside as well so that way you're not reaching in around the jaw to go to this other side every single time I've used pipe clamps for vices I've always found it best to drive the screws in to hold the rear jaw and then back them out slightly just so that this can wiggle just a little bit it will prevent binding in certain situations so technically speaking once the pipes are mounted device is done this is a very very simple way to make a very strong vise I'm going to make a little bit nicer front jaw for it but just as a demonstration you could use a piece of 2x4 it really doesn't matter and mount whatever you want in it whether it's thin stock like this I was adjusting the appropriate size here before I put this in place but whether you're working on thin stuff like this it's not going anywhere or wider panels for like the side of a cabinet or something whatever you got to do to them this is not going anywhere so you can use the two-by-four if you want but I'm about to make a little bit nicer looking jaw better than a 2x4 absolutely but not by much this is just a chunk of two by ten notched out so that this could be quickly and easily removed and set into place nothing fancy but very very functional and budget-friendly this is just a like I said pipe clamps and it does the job really well so I also angled the the top face like you typically would see in a leg vise or a Moxon vise type setup and that's so that you can get in closer to your work if you're using a saw on a 45 degree angle or so but this one's done now let's work on a leg place so the leg vise here turned out really well it's nice and clean I do have one knot on the outside face but it's going to taper down a little bit towards the middle as you go down that'll be cut off the inside face which no one will ever see has got a couple knots in it so if you don't care I don't care this one may show through on the side as I put a taper on it but no big deal but I need to drill the Nate I need to drill the screw hole to go all the way through this and I need to drill it from the front side because it's going to step down it needs to be larger and then step down a little bit so to do so I need to mark it with the front of the front face into the leg itself and then I can position this so that there's a equal amount of overhang on each side of the leg so it's perfectly centered on the leg and then I can mark the top of the orc bench location once I have the actual top location marked out then I can measure down the appropriate distance for my screw hole the holes were drilled just fine and the test fit looks really good so before I actually attach the hardware I'm going to shape this thing just a little bit I'm extremely pleased with the way that this leg vise is working I did not put a parallel guide down at the bottom so this spins freely which isn't that big of a deal because gravity is going to keep it vertically the vast majority of the time if it does spin just a little bit more than what you'd like you could use your thumb to hold the jaw steady as you're pushing as you're advancing the screw not a big deal at all something I did not want to do which again isn't really that big of a deal but I didn't want to do it is make a parallel guide to go through the bottom leg of the workbench and then adjust the pin every time I need to do just a pin there's a much simpler approach a much more simple approach that I read online I can't take credit for the idea it's just to use a wedge down at the bottom I read it on a blog post from Christopher Sh Wars and he said that he accidentally used a wedge one day and it works so there's no rhyme or reason to the shape of the wedge that I chose it's just a simple wedge shape and I wanted to be able to pull it out just as easy as I could kick it forward so I put a couple nails two nails driven about a quarter of an inch proud of the surface that way kick it forward as needed stick my foot on top of the nails and it's pulls back very easily so I can adjust the parallel of this vise without bending down to adjust the pin if I was to use the pin system so it's very easy to use it's very strong I'm very impressed with how strong this vices and going for a wider piece of material it simply means kicking the wedge a little bit further so yeah I'm just very impressed and pleased with the way that this leg vise turned out so the workbench is done the vices are done and I'm just I'm just like a kid in a candy store right now I'm so excited I'm very happy with each one of these vices they are all unique in their own right do you need three vices on a workbench no technically speaking you don't need any there's ways to to hold stuff down without it however anyone who is used a vise on a workbench knows that they're extremely handy to have so the only thing that I haven't done so far is to drill the dog holes and you're not missing anything there it's just drilling 3/4 inch holes I haven't drilled them yet because I'm not exactly sure how far in from the side that I will put them on but definitely going to drill dog holes and maybe a couple holes for holdfasts on this side not exactly sure but when the time comes like I said it's just drilling a 3/4 inch hole so I still have to make the cabinet that goes down below I'll cover that in the next video that's it for this one you guys take care thanks for watching and have a great day you you