I was looking around and found this site and their work bench vice. The short videos are wonderful.
Enjoy!
Glide Leg Vise
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Bench and a little handy plane work. ;~)
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Vise
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"The" Workbench Vice
Aug 30, 2009
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couple of cold Shiners and watch these videos together. I can't think of a more romantic thing for us to do...
vise from cheapie parts such as from
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lists 3' long lengths of Acme threaded rod for $40; heavy duty hex nut for $10; 10" handwheels from $40 to $100+, depending on finish. A couple of rollerblade wheels and some assorted hardware rounds out the the leg vise. It helps if you have a metal lathe to turn down the rod ends and bore the handwheel.
The significant difference is the parallel guide and its support rollers. I imagine you can backfit rollers onto any old leg vise and get similarly good results. Rollerblade wheels are dirt cheap (almost), at $6 each with ABEC5 bearings.
With all that said, just the raw parts adds up to about $150, and still needs some non-trivial machining on the handwheel and threaded rod and nut. Maybe a packaged solution for $350 isn't so completely horrible. Galooting sure isn't cheap.
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