Work Holder for the Vise

[bill k]

When hammering on hot metal in a vise the work shifts if it is struck from the side. The jig pictured and discussed in the video link keeps the work secure when struck from any direction (except upsetting blows). 
 

[JHCC]

Welcome to IFI!

That's a very interesting setup. Do you have a video of it in use?

[Frosty]

Welcome aboard Bill, glad to have you. If you put your general location in the header you'll have a much better chance of meeting up with members living within visiting distance.

Nice vise accessory, I've seen similar and they're useful tools.

Frosty The Lucky.

[bill k]

22 hours ago, JHCC said:

Welcome to IFI!

 Do you have a video of it in use?

Here is a video. You will notice for heavy hitting the two halves of the device separate causing the work to tilt. 
 

 

 

The video doesn't seem to work. I put it on YouTube. Here is a link. 
 

 

[bill k]

Thanks for the welcome. I took a class at John C Campbell around 2010. I was hooked!  I was still working at the time so I wasn't very active. I have taken a number of classes at the New England School of Metalwork. They do a great job teaching and promoting the craft. 
 

Since retiring in 2016 I have spent more time at the forge and in my shop.  I also have a lathe and milling machine. My main passion is dreaming up gadgets like this one. 

[Frosty]

I'm not sure what the guides are supposed to do Bill. I assume you were bending the bar in the most disadvantageous manner possible. Parallel to the vise jaws depending purely on friction. The heated section well above the jaws which puts more moment of leverage against effective bending AND maximizing force against the friction required. 

Of course the bar tilted in the second video it was about the only thing that could've happened.

I'd assumed you meant the alignment tool was to keep stock perpendicular to the vise jaws when bending and you'd make the bends like blacksmiths normally do. By hammering against the immobile jaw for the maximum resistance to movement. I THOUGHT the idea behind the tool was to prevent the stock from shifting sideways causing a crooked bend.

Your movie probably didn't load because of file size, Iforge has a pretty small file size limit. Posting a link to Youtube is a pretty normal practice here. That has the benefit on not needing to load a special program to watch it, and such. 

Frosty The Lucky.

[bill k]

1 hour ago, Frosty said:

I'm not sure what the guides are supposed to do Bill. 

I recently got an induction heater and was wrapping tubing around a round bar. When wrapping the coil in the direction of the vise jaws, the round bar would tilt.
 

I made the device to hold the round bar perpendicular to the vise and to keep the bar from tilting when the force is parallel to the vise jaws. 
 

I recently forged a pair of box jaw tongs. The reins needed tweaking in the direction perpendicular to the plane of the vise jaws and in the direction of the jaws. The device let me make both corrections without the work tilting. 

[Frosty]

A purpose something like that is what I was envisioning, Bill.

Frosty The Lucky.