Home craftsman's workshop, often works with wood products, difficult to imagine without such a useful device, like carpentry vices. Using this clamping device, which is easy to make with your own hands, you can perform various technological operations with wooden parts.
The design of carpentry vices is not so complicated, to give up the idea of making them with your own hands
Many, guided by the desire to save on the purchase of carpentry vices, hand-held devices are used to fix wooden parts (example, clamps). However, such universal devices do not allow you to efficiently perform many technological operations on wood, and their metal clamping elements leave unattractive dents on soft wooden surfaces.
If the processed wooden details should differ not only in quality, but also aesthetic appearance, then without bream, specially designed for carpentry, can not do. You can seriously save on the purchase of serial models in a more optimal way - to make carpentry vices with your own hands.
Homemade workbench with vices
How vices are arranged to perform carpentry work
The design of vices for joinery works consists of the following elements:
- supports, which is also a fixed clamping sponge;
- movable clamping sponge;
- two metal guides, on which the movable sponge moves;
- lead screw, which ensures the movement of the movable sponge;
- crank, due to which the propeller is informed of the rotation.
The main parts of vices for the joiner's machine
The fixed support of joiner's vices is reliably fixed on a machine surface, for which long screws or bolted fasteners are used. Many serial models provide the ability to use removable pads on the movable and immovable sponges. Such overlays, increasing the versatility of carpentry vices, can be made of metal and polymeric materials.
Because folding vices are often used for processing large wooden products, in the design of many models the spring mechanism is provided, which facilitates the performed manipulations. Such a mechanism, which can be installed on homemade carpentry vices, provides pre-clamping of the part (finally it is fixed with a lead screw). If this mechanism is absent in the design of the workbench, then the carpenter will have to keep the wooden blank on the weight for a long time, before it can be reduced to a movable clamping sponge.
Self-made clamp of a clip of sponges
Recommendations for the manufacture of carpentry vices
To make wooden vices for carpentry with your own hands, it is necessary to make drawings and select the appropriate components. Wooden bars are used as clamping jaws for such vices. One of them, employee with a fixed sponge, is fixed on the surface of the machine and will act as a bearing support of the device.
You will also need a threaded screw with a diameter of at least 20 mm. From the length of this element, which is responsible for moving the movable sponge and, in accordance, for the clamp of the workpiece, allowable dimensions of the workpiece, which can be fixed in self-made joiner's vices. Two metal guides will also be needed to make the carpenter's vise, as which you can use any metal pins (the main thing, to make them equal, and their diameter was not less 10 mm).
Details of guides can be made on metalworking machines or to use for them racks from forward shock-absorbers of the car.
Any wooden vise, including homemade, controlled by the gate, the rotation of which is transmitted to the propeller. You can use a long metal rail as a gate, which will be inserted into the slot of the lead screw head. Such a slot must be pre-drilled to the thickness of the existing rail. Some home builders use a regular wrench as a screw cap, in which his head is pressed.
Clamping unit of joiner's vice
To make homemade folding vices more convenient to use, it is better to mount a full-fledged collar on them. To do this, you will need a welding machine. A quarrel is needed for that, to weld a nut or washer to the end of the lead screw, in the holes of which will be inserted ??collar handle. Having made such a collar, you will greatly simplify the process of managing carpentry vices, and working with them will be much easier.
Drawings of the drive shaft and collar
As mentioned above, You will need two wooden bars to make the movable and immovable jaws of the carpenter’s vise. It is best to choose pine as a material for making such bars: its wood is quite soft and strong at the same time. Holes of appropriate diameter must be drilled in both lips: two - for guides, one - for the lead screw. That such openings on movable and motionless lips settled down precisely concerning each other, it is necessary to drill them simultaneously in two bars. To perform this procedure, the bars can be connected with nails, and disconnect them again after making the holes.
Drawings of wooden sponges for carpentry vices
Once all the preparations are completed, you can start assembling homemade carpentry vices. First, what needs to be done, - it is reliable to fix a fixed sponge-support on the surface of the machine. After that, the guides and the lead screw are inserted into the holes of the support.
The ends of the guides protruding from the rear of the support must be locked, for what it is possible to cut on them a carving and to screw nuts. A nut is also screwed onto the protruding end of the screw. In order to ensure the immobility of such a nut in the process, it can be placed in a pre-prepared sample on the surface of the support, in which it must enter very closely.
Fastening of guides with a movable sponge
When the fixed support of joiner's vices, screw and guides mounted, you can install a movable sponge on them, for which it already has prepared holes. On the protruding over the front surface of the movable sponge end of the lead screw must put on a washer with a large outer diameter and screw two nuts, which will play the role of a locking element.
Fixing the vise on an inverted tabletop
After fastening all the elements, you can connect the end of the screw to the collar and start using carpentry vices. Once you start turning the collar, the screw will be screwed into the nut of the fixed support, thereby drawing a movable clamping sponge to it.
It is better to make working parts of sponges removable from firm wood
Handmade carpentry vices are modernized if necessary, adapting them to wooden blanks of different sizes. So, you can install a longer screw, that will allow to process preparations of bigger width, change the position of the guide elements, what may be needed in that case, if you decide to install clamps of greater length.
So, It is easy to make wooden vices with your own hands. Even a person can cope with such a task, never before engaged in the manufacture of carpentry. Construction, described above, is the simplest, but quite effective, to adapt it to the solution of certain tasks by any home craftsman.
If any points are not fully understood, then the following videos will help to understand the design of the vise and the process of their manufacture.