Jericho
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:thinking: I am starting to need a good vice as I am getting more and more into engraving. Does anyone have any good, inexpensive options for a begginer?
Question: Vice preference
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Brian Marshall
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A pitch bowl is the cheapest/simplest device. Second hand store for a stainless mixing bowl, fill 3/4 with concrete, top off with pitch.
Or sink a couple bolts in the concrete before it sets up and bolt a small vise on top.
Use an old lawnmower tire as the base. You gotta boil the thing in a pot of water to soften it and pry it offa the rim.
You can have a lotta fun explaining what you are doing when someone comes into the kitchen whilst you are at it.
Then, if you need it to turn a little easier, you can set the whole thing on top of a potters turntable...
Brian
Or sink a couple bolts in the concrete before it sets up and bolt a small vise on top.
Use an old lawnmower tire as the base. You gotta boil the thing in a pot of water to soften it and pry it offa the rim.
You can have a lotta fun explaining what you are doing when someone comes into the kitchen whilst you are at it.
Then, if you need it to turn a little easier, you can set the whole thing on top of a potters turntable...
Brian
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hey, why not try some thermoloc. it's low in price and will anchor most anything you'd want to work on. the thermoloc package has enough in it to nearly anchor a battleship. it's also reuseable. unlike the jett-set which requires using water, the thermoloc works in a microwave oven or with a blo drier.
Ed Westerly
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Your criteria may be unobtainable. You want a GOOD inexpensive vise. I would argue that there are no good inexpensive vises. You get what you pay for, and if you get a good vise, you will probably never need to get another. Think of it as a one time business expense.
bronc
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What Bruce said!
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Andrew Biggs
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Hi Jericho
Buy a good vise is my best advise for you. You will never regret it.........It's not an optional extra. It is an essential piece of kit like a hammer is for a carpenter.
Yes, you can go cheap and make do but you will always be fighting with it.
Cheers
Andrew
Buy a good vise is my best advise for you. You will never regret it.........It's not an optional extra. It is an essential piece of kit like a hammer is for a carpenter.
Yes, you can go cheap and make do but you will always be fighting with it.
Cheers
Andrew
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