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Chris completes the tool with handmade rivets, grooved clamping faces and little return springs.
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A Wedge-Style Hand Vise - Part 5 (Making the Jaw Ends & Final Assembly)
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- 1:56A sine bar and gauge blocks establish the 30-degree machining angle, with the calculation worked out on paper.
- 4:24Slots in the brass jaw ends receive the steel jaw arms.
- 5:22A single-flute cutter makes V-shaped clamping grooves across the jaw faces.
- 5:53Chris turns interference-fit brass rivets, then hammers them into place and mills their heads flush.
- 7:49Deburring, contouring, oil stones and sandpaper bring the parts to a brushed finish.
- 8:24The completed vise is reassembled with springs, followed by a demonstration of its opening range.
A solid brass block becomes the final working surfaces of Chris's hand vise, with a little written arithmetic along the way. Setting up an angled cut, he admits he makes fewer mistakes when he works the calculation out on a pad rather than in his head.
Clickspring posted nothing new this week, but "A Wedge-Style Hand Vise - Part 5 (Making the Jaw Ends & Final Assembly)" remains its busiest video. The finale has reached roughly 160,000 views, extending the return to an early channel project we reported here in October.
The satisfaction is in the small operations: slots milled to receive the steel arms, V-shaped grooves cut into the clamping faces, brass rivets turned on the lathe and hammered into place. Chris mills the rivet heads flush, then works towards a brushed finish with oil stones and sandpaper. Once assembled, the tool earns a distinctly maker's assessment: "The tool feels quite well balanced in the hand, and I really like the action of these little return springs."
The opening handle-and-cone episode and an older ceramic-shell casting video are also among the channel's busiest uploads. Across the catalogue, Clickspring drew about 64,000 views over the week, with subscribers unchanged and daily viewing below its usual level. Nearby workshop channels Fab Rats and WeldTube are enjoying above-usual daily viewing; Clickspring's week belongs to the finishing bench, with the last brass pieces finally fitted.
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Which material does Chris use for the hand vise's jaw ends?
Chris machines the final jaw ends from a solid block of brass.