DIY plywood vice drawings. How to make a carpentry table with your own hands? It's not all bad
The vice is an indispensable device during the most various works.
New tool It's expensive, and you need different vices. Let's look at manufacturing methods clamping device with your own hands.
Bench vice made from corrugated pipe
In order to make a reliable bench vise, you need welding machine and the following components:
- Several sections of professional pipe different sizes.
- Hardened steel stud with coarse thread.
- Double height nuts.
A drawing of a vice for a workbench is shown in the illustration. This is a universal option; changes in design are possible, depending on your tasks.
Manufacturing procedure
Supports are welded to the larger diameter pipe (body) from below. A rear wall (flange) made of 3-5 mm steel is welded on the rear side. A hole is drilled in the center and the running nut is welded. The rear jaw is welded on top, opposite the front support.
A front flange made of 3-5 mm steel is welded onto the end of the internal movable pipe. A stud with welded lock nuts is inserted into it. Thrust washers must be installed on both sides of the flange. An eyelet is welded onto the front end of the stud for the knob. The front jaw is attached to the top of the movable pipe.
IMPORTANT! The gap between the body and the moving pipe cannot be painted. There should be grease there. The same lubricant is applied to the threads of the stud.
For reliability, metal plates made of hardened steel can be screwed onto the jaws, for example, holders from turning tools, with notches made with a file.
Homemade bench vise, shown in the photo:
Carpenter's vice for workbench
To process wooden products you need a reliable clamp. There is a factory version of the vice integrated into the carpentry workbench.
It is easy to make such a device yourself. Let's take a look at standard drawing:
Sponges are made from soft, plastic wood, such as pine. Too much hard material will leave marks on the workpieces. The fixed part is attached to the workbench.
Do-it-yourself carpenter's vice for a workbench, drawings, diagrams and assembly procedures. The presented vice design consists of three components.
FIXED SUPPORT
The support is attached to carpenter's workbench, is made in the form of a square, the sides of which are connected to each other into a tenon. You can attach the support to the workbench with bolts, studs, or other fasteners that will ensure reliable connection.
The support is made of oak or plywood.
The thread for installing the screw can be cut directly into the wood, if strong pressure on the workpiece is not required, otherwise we slightly complicate the design of the support by inserting a metal threaded insert into it, rigidly fixed in the wood.
PRESSING MECHANISM
Consists of the following parts:
1.
Pressure disk.
2.
Special metal washer.
3.
Screw turning handle.
4.
Screw.
5.
Bolt M6x12.
6.
Spring washer 6.
7.
Enlarged washer A 6.
A special (pressure) metal washer can be connected to a wooden pressure disk:
Using glue
using wood screws with a countersunk head (first, we drill three through holes for the screws in a metal washer at the same distance from each other, drill chamfers in the holes, the chamfers should ensure that the screw heads fit flush)
GAUGE BAR
Sets the operating range of the moving mechanism. For example, if the thickness of the beam is 100 (mm), and the thickness of the pressure disk is 20 (mm), then the working range of the carpenter's vice is determined by the formula:
Tr = Tb – Td
Tr– the maximum thickness of the part that can be clamped in a vice
TB– gauge bar thickness
Td– thickness of the pressure disk
Tr = 100 – 20 = 80(mm)
For carpentry work, you need a convenient workbench that will have storage cells various instruments(files, chisels, etc.), a vice and everything necessary for work. The carpenter's table has some design features.
A carpentry workbench is used for processing wood products.
Making the base of the workbench
The manufacturing of the table is carried out in stages. First of all, blanks for the legs are prepared. To do this, you need to cut strips of plywood using circular saw. The width of the strips should correspond to the width of the legs. The strips need to be connected to each other to form a parallelepiped.
After the wood glue has dried, a recess is made on one side of the leg. A router with a straight cutter is used for this. The depth of the groove should be 2 cm. The shelf will be inserted into it.
Next, the table frame is constructed. For it, you need to cut plywood blanks of a certain size. In one of the strips you need to cut a recess, which will later serve for mounting a vice. It is best to use lamellas and cutters for them as fasteners for assembling the structure. You can also use dowels.
From 4 strips of plywood for the frame you need to glue a box. To do this, use wood glue or PVA. The glued box must be checked for squareness and equality of diagonals. If the product is smooth, then you can fix it with clamps. The box must remain in a fixed position until the glue has completely dried. The legs are attached to the resulting frame using screws. Next, the bottom shelf is glued in.
Next, you will need to prepare a shelf with special recesses for hand tool. It is also attached in a groove manner to the legs. The tool shelf is secured with confirmations. To attach, you need to drill and chamfer. For this it is more convenient to use special drill on wood for confirmations. It allows you to drill and chamfer at the same time. However, you can do this work and with a regular drill. It is necessary to recess the confirmation into the surface, since in the future the side with fasteners will be used to move the box, and the protruding confirmations will interfere with this.
Making a countertop
First, prepare a box for the countertop. For it you will need to prepare 5 parts from plywood: a bottom and 4 side walls. On two side parts with inside you need to prepare grooves for attaching the bottom. WITH outside On the same walls of the box, recesses are made with a milling cutter, thanks to which the box will move along the side shelves.
The side walls are secured with dowels. Holes for fastening elements are drilled at their ends. The centers of the holes for fasteners must be moved to the side surfaces of the adjacent walls. After all the preparation, the walls and bottom can be glued together using wood glue.
The bottom is additionally fixed with countersunk screws to the front wall and with opposite side. To do this, holes are first made at the ends of the side elements through the thickness of the bottom. To process these holes, a chamfer or a cutter is used. Countersunk screws will be recessed into the surface, so they cannot be snagged.
Removable workbench cover: a - cover design (1 - base; 2 - side rail; 3 - liner; 4 - planing stop; 5 - guide; 6 - clamp for attaching the workbench to the table top; 7 - sawing stop); b - replaceable stops for planing.
After preparing the drawer, the tabletop itself is made. To do this, 2 sheets of plywood are cut out and glued together. The thicker the tabletop, the stronger the workbench will be. Strips of plywood are cut under the base of the tabletop. You will need 2 elements in the form of small parallelepipeds. Each of them must be glued together from 2 parts. Using special dowels, the strips are attached to the tabletop. You can use regular round dowels, but in this case you will need to use 2 times more fasteners. After this, holes are drilled in the future location for attaching the vice.
All elements of the tabletop base are connected using glue, dowels and clamps. It is necessary to check the evenness of the connection of these elements. A tabletop is installed on the finished box. For this, reinforced dowels are used.
After the glue has completely dried, markings are made for the stops. It is best to drill holes for them using a drill with a stand and a Fosner drill. This will allow you to get straight holes exactly in the place intended for them.
You can use the mechanism from an old workbench, if it is in working order, or purchase a new one in specialized stores.
The vice needs to be assembled and screwed to the tabletop. After this, the fixing brackets snap into place, thanks to which the guides will not fall out of the table.
Making handles for vices and stops
Workbench and clamping fixtures: a, c – wedge clamps for processing the edge of the board; b – clamp for processing the ends of the board; d – carpenter’s vice.
The blank for the handle can be made from a wooden cylindrical piece of sufficient length. It should be slightly narrower than the hole in the vice intended for installing the handle. You will also need a wood crown 15-20 mm wider than cylindrical part. Using a plywood crown, you need to cut 2 washers. It is necessary to drill holes at the ends of the stick into which screws will be screwed to secure the washers. First, 1 washer is attached, and when the handle is installed in the hole in the vice, the second one is attached.
Next, stops are made from wooden scraps round shape and square blanks made of thick plywood. In the center of the square you need to drill a hole corresponding in size to the holes previously made in the tabletop. In depth they should reach the middle of the square. A round piece is placed in the recess in the square and screwed with a screw. It is necessary to make 4 such stops. At this point, the work on making the workbench is completed.
Thus, carpenter's table you can do it yourself. In this case, it is necessary to take into account the features similar design and perform all operations with precision and accuracy. As a result, you can create ideal suitable for a master table tailored to individual wishes. Such a workbench will be functional, convenient and practical.
There must be a place for a workbench in your home workshop. Making a carpenter's vice with your own hands is not at all difficult. Handmade crafts are always pleasing to the eye. Having this simple tool, you can work with different wooden products and do wood carving. You can do without a carpenter's vice by clamping the workpieces into clamps or laying them on a workbench, but this is inconvenient. Processing the end of a workpiece cannot be done without a carpenter's vice, and clamps are simply not suitable. The metal leaves marks on the wood; the tool, if it jumps off the workpiece, can be damaged by the clamps. Thus, you can’t do without such a tool in a workshop, and you don’t have to buy it in a store; you can do it yourself.
Carpenter's vice is designed for clamping the product during work.
A carpenter's vice consists of a body with a movable plate, which moves by two guides. The mechanism itself is fixed to the workbench using metal fasteners. The jaws of the vice have the ability to attach wooden, plastic or metal plates to them. They are needed to protect the workpiece from damage during processing and clamping. You can’t do without overlays when working with soft variety tree.
To fix workpieces (rarely smaller than 20 cm), it is installed spring mechanism quick clamp, because without it, if you use a screw clamp, you will have to rotate the jaw shift mechanism for too long. After quickly applying the jaws, final fixation is made with a screw with a special thread. They are attached to the workbench with screws.
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A homemade carpenter's vice requires a screw pin with a 20 mm thread and a cutting length of 150 mm. You can look for such a pin at a sports equipment store or order it from a turner in a locksmith shop. Its threads are very strong and can withstand significant loads. The longer the screw, the wider the vise jaws can be spread. For the specified sizes, they can be spaced at a distance of about 80 mm.
You will need the correct studs. Try looking for them at a hardware store in the hardware department or among old items and structures. For the proposed design of carpentry yews, studs from a moped mirror and its fasteners were taken. To construct a carpenter's vice, you can take studs from a moped mirror. They are bent, but a few hits with a hammer on an anvil will straighten them out.
To fasten the handle, a slot must be made in the long head of the screw. If the handle does not fit, it can be easily processed to the desired hole width using a file.
A handle made from a screw with a ring in place of the head is well suited for turning the clamp screw.
The sponges are formed from two boards. One of them will be stationary, made of a pine board and mounted on a workbench, and the second jaw of the vice will be a board measuring 20x18x500 mm. The larger size is the length.
A hole is drilled in each board where the screw will be inserted using a drill suitable diameter. For the studs you will need a 10 mm drill; use it to drill through all the boards at once. In order not to disturb the location of the holes, it is convenient to connect them with nails, which are then carefully pulled out.
After this you can put in drilled holes studs and screw, install washer and nut.
Not all workpieces are equally large, so to be able to process the workpieces shorter, you need to make repositionable pins, and in both boards there are 2 additional holes closer to the clamp screw.
Screws can be selected larger size, if you do this, then your carpentry vice will become universal. It will be possible to clamp and process long workpieces, work with the sides of boards, etc.
