Conventional bench vices do not hold the knife blank well during its machining. A couple of times, of course, you can get by with them, but if you do knives all the time, you will need a more practical device to use.
From pieces of a round steel pipe, you can make a very convenient home-made knife holder, which will facilitate the work with workpieces. To make such a device is very simple - you only need a grinder, an electric drill (preferably a drilling machine) and a welding machine.
In addition to metal pipes, pieces of a plate and wooden blocks will also be required, which will be used as clamping jaws. As the base for the knife holder, you can take a square plate, which will be attached to the table with bolts.
The main stages of work
First of all, it will be necessary to connect two pieces of a round pipe perpendicular to each other. To do this, in one of the segments we cut out the saddle with a grinder, and then we weld two blanks together. Whenever possible it is better to use thick-walled pipes.
Next, we cut out a square-shaped steel plate, mark and drill four holes in the corners. We weld a piece of pipe to the base of a home-made holder, into which we insert a workpiece of two pipes. On a drilling machine, we drill holes in the blanks for fixing bolts with flaps.
Inside a horizontal pipe, insert a segment of a smaller diameter, in which you first need to cut two grooves along the edges. In those places where holes were drilled, we weld nuts under the bolts.
The detailed process of making a homemade knife holder for pipes can be seen in the video on our website. Write in the comments, did you like this homemade product?
