Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: DC on June 12, 2017, 03:50:18 pm
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Is there anything better than leather for vice jaws? I've been quite happy with leather. I got a new vice and thought I would check before I made new leather ones.
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Pieces of tire tread.
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These are easy to make and work well.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v181/ekrewson/bow%20making/newvisejaws.jpg) (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/ekrewson/media/bow%20making/newvisejaws.jpg.html)
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I made oak pads with leather glued on similar to Erics except mine were smaller and I put some rare earth magnets to hold them to the vise.
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It's just the liner material I'm asking about. The tires don't leave black marks? The ones on my car always did ;) ;) ;)
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I glued pieces of indoor/outdoor carpet to one my sets of plywood jaw pads. Hold bow staves quite well and lasts a long time. Otherwise, the design was like Eric's.
I picked up a set of semi-soft jaw pads somewhere, who knows, they likely followed me home, generally they deform and squish when I tightened the jaws of the vise. If they were larger they may work, I don't know.
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You guys that are using leather for pads, do you just contact cement them to the vise jaws?
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I use TB glue for the leather pads
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I use 1/8" industrial grade rubber, a fraction wider than the jaws, and just a single piece laid in there like a saddle, or U shape. In and out in a second, holds tight, doesn't leave a mark, takes a ton of abuse, lasts for years. I use it from the time the stave is roughed in until the finish is on, leather on the grip, string serving and silencers, any and all odd jobs, the works. I think in all the years I've been doing this... I'm maybe on my third little piece.
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My vice is the centerpiece of my shop and I use it for a wide range of tasks. There are LOTS of times I need the toothed steel jaws of my vice to really bite into something big, heavy, or hard and leather, wood, copper, rubber, etc isn't going to cut it and needs to be removed in an instant. Just me, but I'm not gluing or bolting anything to those jaws.
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You guys that are using leather for pads, do you just contact cement them to the vise jaws?
Contact cement.