50 The Woodworker & Good Woodworking October 2019 http://www.getwoodworking.com
WORKSHOP
STAPLE
Lance Winter shows you
how to make your very
own drill vice/clamp, which
can accommodate a wide
variety of different gluing
and holding situationsE
very workshop needs a series
of different types of clamps to
accommodate all the different gluing
and holding situations that occur when
making that special project in wood. Here I’ll
explain how to make a clamp that can be used
to hold both small glued pieces together, and
as a vice for use with a pedestal drill. This vice/
clamp is made using a piece of exterior plywood
measuring 530mm long × 160mm wide × 12mm
thick. To make the vice/clamp you’ll need a circular
saw and/or bandsaw, pedestal or bench drill
as well as a few basic hand tools.Cutting sequence
Cut the 530 × 160 × 12mm exterior plywood into
1 × 90mm and 2 × 30mm strips. Cut the 90mm
strip into the sizes given in Fig.2, starting with
the smallest one. Cut the 180mm pieces from
one of the 30mm strips, rip the rest down to
25mm and cut off the two 75mm pieces. Next,
cut the 50mm piece off the other length, then
rip the rest to 25mm wide ×7mm thick. You need
to cut 2 × 230mm long lengths off this piece.
When you’ve completed the cutting, you
Fig.2 Cutting layout for the components of the drill vice/clamp should have the following pieces:
Fig.1 Working drawings and dimensions for the drill vice/clamp
1 The completed drill vice/clamp