Do-it-yourself carpenter's vice for a workbench, drawings, diagrams and assembly procedures. The presented vice design consists of three components.

FIXED SUPPORT

The support is attached to carpenter's workbench, is made in the form of a square, the sides of which are connected to each other into a tenon. You can attach the support to the workbench with bolts, studs, or other fasteners that will ensure a reliable connection.
The support is made of oak or plywood.
The thread for installing the screw can be cut directly into the wood, if strong pressure on the workpiece is not required, otherwise we slightly complicate the design of the support by inserting a metal threaded insert into it, rigidly fixed in the wood.

PRESSING MECHANISM

Consists of the following parts:

1. Pressure disk.
2. Special metal washer.
3. Screw turning handle.
4. Screw.
5. Bolt M6x12.
6. Spring washer 6.
7. Enlarged washer A 6.

A special (pressure) metal washer can be connected to a wooden pressure disk:

Using glue
using wood screws with a countersunk head (first, we drill three through holes for the screws in a metal washer at the same distance from each other, drill chamfers in the holes, the chamfers should ensure that the screw heads fit flush)

GAUGE BAR

Sets the operating range moving mechanism. For example, if the thickness of the beam is 100 (mm), and the thickness of the pressure disk is 20 (mm), then the working range of the carpenter's vice is determined by the formula:

Tr = Tb – Td

Tr– the maximum thickness of the part that can be clamped in a vice
TB– gauge bar thickness
Td– thickness of the pressure disk

Tr = 100 – 20 = 80(mm)

A carpenter's vice in a home workshop is simply an irreplaceable thing for those involved in manufacturing wooden structures and carving. Thanks to them, it will be much more convenient to process certain workpieces. It is best to do this also using a special workbench.

Of course, you can also treat the sides or end of the board with clamps pressed against the block. But the work will be much easier if you make a carpenter’s vice for a workbench with your own hands.

Finished product design

Carpenter's vices can be made independently or purchased from specialized retail outlets. The purchased product is a housing with a movable bar. It moves along two guides, and the base is a place for screwing nuts or bolts to the vice.

It is possible to attach all kinds of wooden, plastic or metal pads to the jaws. They are needed to protect the processed product from damage. It is especially advisable to set this if you are working with soft views wood

A shop vice is capable of fixing workpieces of at least 20 cm, and in order not to move the clamping screw for too long, it is better to use a special spring mechanism, which will do this much faster by moving the movable lip. In the required position, the tree is fixed with a screw equipped with a trapezoidal thread.

Features of homemade structures

Well, if you are going to make a carpenter's vice, then they will have a slightly different structure. As a basis, we will take a screw with a 20 mm thread, its length being 150 mm. Often similar designs are used in sports-type corners. They are inserted into vertical pipes in order to use them to raise certain things higher. The threads in such screws are quite large, but they are not designed for heavy loads. However, it is quite possible to make a carpenter's vice with their help. It is better for the screw to be longer, since the distance between the lips will increase.

Be sure to choose suitable pins, which can be purchased specially for this job or found at home. Other types of fasteners may also be suitable instead. Some even used motorcycle mirror attachments. They have a curved structure, so before work they need to be straightened on an anvil with a sledgehammer.

Example of product manufacturing

And now we will look in more detail at how to make a carpenter’s vice with your own hands. To begin, make a board using two clamping jaws. The size is determined individually, depending on your work surface In workshop. Then on the front jaw you need to make markings for two holes, and they should be spaced as close as possible to each of the edges. We place the front board over the back one and make a hole in it depending on the diameter of the clamping bolt. We drill holes for the T-nuts according to the marks made earlier and then insert them there. Our carpenter's vice is already ready. Now you can place the back jaw on the table, press it with a clamp and, holding the part, make cuts.

There must be a slot in the long head of the screw to secure the handle. If it does not match the size of the handle, then it can be modified with a file, expanding the hole. Instead of using a lever to unscrew the clamping screw, you can use a design with a ring instead of a cap.

A carpenter's vice uses a pine board nailed to the table as a fixed jaw. And its moving part should have a thickness of 20 mm, a width of 18 mm and a length of 50 cm.

The hole for the screw must be made in both parts using an adjustable drill with a diameter of 21 mm, but for the studs you can use a regular one with a diameter of 10 mm, respectively. So that both sponges can be processed through and through in this way at the same time, nail them to each other with nails, and then remove the nails when the work is completed.

Benefits of using the product

We looked at how to make a carpenter's vice at home for the convenience of working with wood and other workpieces. There are other options for their manufacture, in particular designs with higher jaws, which are used exclusively for manual carpentry tools. Often in a work shop, carpenter's vices have a task called "double screw". Classic version products - two threads and two jaws, which are fixed in the front of the workbench, have been widely used for more than one century in a row.

Moreover, a carpentry vice is a fairly simple thing to use. It is enough just to insert the part that needs to be processed between the jaws and tighten it with bolts. Thanks to them, carpenters got rid of many problems, in particular, they can process parts regardless of size, and they also help to level the backrest above the table surface.

Masters note the key advantages of the vice:

• they can be placed anywhere on the work surface of the workshop, in this regard they are very portable;
• since this product is not used by the master every day, they can be easily removed and placed on the wall in a designated place;
• The product can be installed on a table and used as a large clamp.

How to make a vice with a pressed nut

To make such a product with your own hands, you need to prepare the following:

• bolt with nut for spreading;
• metal staples.

So that the key when squeezing a wooden or metal blank the nut has not come off, it needs to be pressed into it. For this purpose, the sponges need to be heated over the fire and covered with it too. To assemble such a structure with your own hands, you will need a minimum of materials and necessary parts.

Assembling a vice based on shock absorbers

If you have experience and imagination, then you can assemble such a product from any old parts and devices that can be found in a workshop or garage. IN specific example we will need:

• shock absorbers;
• nut M18;
• metal corner;
• hairpin;
• rod from the gas stop for the handle of the structure.

Using all the parts, we assemble the vice, and then attach it to the table. We drill holes in the corners between the shock absorbers and attach them. To make it easier to work with the key material, the corners can be welded. The shock absorbers will move easier if they are burned out a little.

Any carpenter who works with wood and other materials notes that a carpenter's vice for a workbench is very convenient device, which greatly simplifies the work. Moreover, you can easily make them yourself.

It’s not difficult to make reliable and easy-to-use vices with your own hands. The need for this may be caused not only by the desire to save money on purchasing a serial model, but also by the need to use clamping device, which will allow us to more effectively solve the tasks assigned to it.

Serial models of vices, although universal, are not always able to provide high accuracy fixation of parts, they are quite bulky and have significant weight.

Homemade vices, used primarily in the home workshop, can be made more suitable for performing certain tasks. technological operations, which means more efficient and convenient.

Homemade bench vices may differ little from factory ones, both in appearance, and in terms of reliability

Any person who spends a lot of time in his home workshop will confirm that it is quite difficult to do without such a device as a vice. Without a clamping device, it is difficult to perform various operations with parts made of metal, wood and plastic. The use of a vice guarantees not only high accuracy and efficiency of drilling, milling, etc. operations, but also the safety of the machine operator. If there is no desire or opportunity to purchase a serial model of such a device, then it is quite possible to make a vice with your own hands, spending very little time and effort on it.

Homemade bench vise: option No. 1

You can make excellent strong bench vices yourself from profile pipes. Below is detailed instructions in photo selection format, supplemented detailed video. Unfortunately. video on English language, but this is unlikely to prevent a competent master from understanding the essence of the process.

Vise parts from the profile Running nuts Fastening the running nuts to the base of the vice
Screwing in the lead screw Maximum opening of the vice The vice is assembled, all that remains is to paint
Painting the moving part Painting the fixed part The vice is ready for work

Instructions for making a vice: option No. 2

Homemade vices do not require complex design developments and calculations. You can use numerous photos and drawings of such devices, which are easy to find on the Internet. A fairly simple, but at the same time very effective design is created on the basis of metal pipes.

As is known, pipes used for the installation of water and gas pipelines are manufactured in such a way that a product of a certain diameter fits tightly into a pipe of a subsequent standard size. It is this feature of the pipes that allows them to be used for such a device as a homemade bench vise. Visual drawing, photos and descriptions of the manufacturing process will help you make this vise yourself.

Structural elements that will consist of homemade vice, are:

• line segment metal pipe, which will act as the internal moving part of the device;
• a piece of metal pipe of the following standard size, which will serve as an external fixed part;
• running nut with thread diameter M16;
• lead screw with thread diameter M16;
• a knob through which rotation will be imparted to the lead screw;
• front and rear supports, due to which the stationary pipe will be fixed to the base;
• pieces of rectangular pipe (future clamping jaws of a vice);
• two lock nuts with thread diameters M16 and M18.

Two main parts of the vice (movable and fixed)

To make such a vice with your own hands, you begin by welding a flange to the end of a section of a larger diameter pipe, which will act as a stationary element. A nut with an M16 thread must be welded into the central hole of the flange. A flange with a central hole into which the lead screw will be passed is also welded to the end of a section of a movable pipe of a smaller diameter.

At some distance from the edge of the lead screw, an M18 nut is welded to it (it will become a fixing element). After this, the end of the lead screw, to which the nut is welded, must be passed through the inside of the movable pipe and inserted into the hole in the flange. In this case, the nut should press against the flange from its inside.

At the end of the lead screw protruding from outside flange, put on a washer and screw on an M16 nut, which is then welded to the screw. A washer must also be installed between the inner nut and the flange surface, which is necessary to reduce the friction force. To correctly perform this stage of making a homemade vice, it is better to focus on the corresponding video.

After the movable vice assembly is assembled, you should insert it into a fixed pipe of a larger diameter and screw the second end of the lead screw into the nut of the second flange. To connect the lead screw with the knob, a nut or washer can be welded to its end protruding from the side of the movable pipe, into the holes of which the knob will be inserted.

The clamping jaws of such a vice can be made from pieces of rectangular pipes, which are welded to the moving and fixed parts. To give the structure stability, two supports are welded to the bottom of the fixed pipe, for which corners or rectangular pipes can be used.

The inner tube can also rotate during the rotation of the lead screw, which makes the use of such a vice very inconvenient. To prevent this from happening, a longitudinal slot can be made in the upper part of the stationary pipe, and a locking screw can be screwed into the movable pipe, which will move along this slot and prevent rotation of the movable part.

Many photos of homemade vices of a similar design show devices whose moving and fixed parts are made of square or rectangular pipes. The use of such pipes also avoids rotation of the moving part of the vice.

The vise of the described design, authored by V. Legostaev, is a reliable and effective clamping device, easy to maintain and repair, which makes it very popular among home craftsmen.

How to make your own carpenter's vice

Almost anyone home handyman have to deal with processing wooden products. The need for such processing may be associated both with the manufacture of various wooden structures, and with the repair of existing ones. Carry out this work using improvised tools with metal clamping elements, is not only inconvenient, but also fraught with damage to the surface wooden part, the appearance of dents and cracks on it. This is why it is best to use a carpenter's vice for wooden products. Making them yourself is also easy.

As in the case of a bench vice, finding drawings, photos and even videos of the manufacture of such devices on the Internet is not difficult.

The simplest design consists of the following elements:

• massive body wooden block, which also serves as a fixed clamping jaw;
• a movable sponge made of a wooden block;
• cylindrical metal guides along which the movable jaw will move;
• a lead screw that ensures movement of the movable jaw;
• a crank through which rotation is imparted to the lead screw.

The body of such a vice, on which the metal guides are fixed, is attached to the surface of the workbench using long screws or bolts. It is necessary to make three holes in both the body and the movable jaw of the clamping device - for the guides and the lead screw. It is best to drill such holes simultaneously in both bars so that they are positioned exactly relative to each other.