hi makers, builders and hackers. harley herewith a quick and easy to make shop tool accessory project. i was working on a repair project a coupleweeks ago, and needed to put the project in a vise. however, because it was a repair,it already had a finish on it and i didn't want the metal jaws on the vise to mar thefinish on the finished piece. so, i grabbed a couple pieces of scrap wood out of the pileand was trying to balance two pieces of thin scrap wood with the project and tighten upthe vice all at the same time. things were just falling all over the place, getting messy,i figured there had to be a better way. i went back to the scrap wood pile, pulled outa cut off piece of two-by-four and realized
the width of the two-by-four was almost exactlythe width of the vice jaws. and inspiration struck. what i realized was i could make a couplecuts: one down the center; one at about a quarter in on one side and one about a quarterin on the other side; trim those off; and then do another cut across here. and i wouldend up with two pieces that would fit over the jaws giving me a nice soft, relativelyspeaking, surface to clamp things with. there are six cuts that i can do with justfour setups. the first setup i'll cut lengthwise for the first notch, flip the board over,cut the second notch lengthwise; move the fence over to the halfway point on the woodand cut the long slit that would separate
the two jaw pads. third setup: move the fencedown and cut off the first notch, flip the board over, cut off the second notch. fourthsetup: move the fence down a little bit and finally cut off the two soft pads and thecutting will be done. with those cuts done, we now have a functionalset of soft jaws. we can put a project in there and tighten it down without having themetal jaws of the vice coming into contact with the project we're trying to keep niceand pristine. so that's it for this episode. next episodei plan on doing some upgrades for this to make it a little bit more functional. feel free to comment, like and subscribe onthe youtube channel.
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