Cam Locked Sculpturers Vice

[ukazak]

A friend of mine asked for a vice, that he could screw the work piece on it and position and work with any angle. He planned to use hammer and chisels on it so it had to be sturdy enough and not unlock itself when banged on it. It should be handled by easy locking no wrenches should be used etc…







So, here it is. In case you would care to look at it. Nothing special about it. Simple and straight forward. Please ignore the machining scratches and flaws I could sand them off and polished, but it is only a vice after all. Soon enough it will get his share of scratching and be ugly again without any of my help.



Two jaws, bottom jaw, cold draw steel, 150X150X15mm and top jaw is 150X100X15mm. ball is made of 30mm Dia and long
Jaws groved to fit 30mm round ball.


Bottom jaw drilled four corners for clamping to a counter and counter bored for 8mm Allen bolt.


Ball 30mm and neck 100mm all carved from one piece, end has squared 10mm, drilled and topped 6mm.

top plate slotted ball-bar to fit so, it wouldnt unscreved
10mm adjusting bolt.



Cam column turned from started 20mm, dropped 12mm Chrome round stock drilled 10mm to receive 10mm cam pin. Drilled



Lever turned from 30mm round stock, slotted 12mm, at top and tapped 10mm to receive the handle and also drilled through 10mm to receive the pin. Handle turned from15mm round stock threaded.




Surprising, but it works. Holds it amazingly very strong


sorry I mested up the sequences of pictures... but, you already know what I mean anyways...

You know the rest of the story.

[BillTodd]

lovely

[Rob.Wilson]

  Good job Unal   

I am sure your friend will be very pleased with his new vice   


Rob

[Brass_Machine]

Good job. I am sure your friend will find it useful.

Got some ideas from it too!

Eric

[DaveH]

Unal,

That is a very nice job,  I like the cam handle very smart 

 
DaveH

[Divided he ad]

Unal,

Very nice bit of kit there 

Definitely like the cam handle.... My kind of shaping that     



Always nice to get new ideas in your head for later projects    Thank you for posting it.




Ralph.

[Anzaniste]

Super job. How did you machine the hemispherical recesses in the clamping plates?

[fixerup]

Well done,Nice Job, Thanks for posting.
Phil

[ukazak]

Thank you kindly everyone to take the time to view. That’s what I thought that it would be an idea for keeps, for later of use somewhere else. 

he is happy  and I am more so, for I can start other projects of my own.
I felt some degree of stress,  in case it wouldnt work. I tried a huge block (340mm Diameter by 450mm tall) of fire wood on it and angled 30-45 degrees and banged on it. it wouldnt move.

for the hemispherical recesses, I carved simple V grove largest part met the circle of 30 diameter for the both jaws. Than I Improvised a little,  used 25mm Dia ball sand-stone I happened to have, and smothed in.

Cam handle was the easyst part of all actually even for me.

Unal

[doubleboost]

Unal,

Very nice
That should last a lifetime
Clean crisp machining
Well photographed
John

[dsquire]

ukazak

I edited your post to add a space after the similes .

Without a space before and after this is what it shows as   [this :doh:this]  [this:doh: this]

With a space before and after this is what it shows as   [this this]

Hope this helps.

That was some nice thinking and work on the vise as well. Thanks for sharing it with us.


Cheers 

Don

[ukazak]

ukazak

I edited your post to add a space after the similes .

Without a space before and after this is what it shows as   [this :doh:this]  [this:doh: this]

With a space before and after this is what it shows as   [this this]

Hope this helps.

That was some nice thinking and work on the vise as well. Thanks for sharing it with us.


Cheers 

Don

Thanks Don, I am grateful for it.