Vises and clamps

Stephan Passon is 20 years old and lives in Germany. Hes been working wood and metal for 11 years. Here are a couple of vises he uses often. This one for his CNC mill:

In this age of planned obsolescence, its nice to know that tools can function for generations just as they were intended. This vise is from Stephans grandfather and is 100 years old.

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Matthew Dean Wilson built his own vise. Clever design. Maybe someone will be using it in 100 years.

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Store-bought clamps are just way too expensive. Shaun Harmer built his own clamp for 10 bucks. Its a cool design and something I really want to try. To operate it, you move the sliding jaw near the work piece, drop the bolt into a hole and tighten the knob. Then you turn the threaded rod to tighten the jaw. Great idea.

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Paul the man of many vises

In my video yesterday I mentioned Paul and his vises. Well wouldnt you know, he sent pics.

Homemade bench vise

 Bench vise holding work with dogs:

 End Speed Vise

Drill vises

Hobby vises

Tripod bench vise

 Bench vise

Mill vise

Wow, thats a lot of vises. Anyone else?

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