Edge Vise

I saw some pictures a little bit ago of a home made edge vise, and decided that it was time I built one.....especially after looking at the price of some commercial models. And this one is sized for ukuleles in mind.

Built from some bits and pieces I had lying about. The template I cut on the laser, and had thought about screwing in place, but it turned out to be a press fit, and doesn't really need anything more. At least for the time being.

Took a little bit to work out the size of the offsets to make the end graft fit with and without purflings. The curves in my design make this a lot more difficult than just straight tapers. Last image is just a dry fit to test everything out in a bit of scrap.

Ain't it grand to have a mill in your shop?

Nice jig Allen. I do the same kind of curved engraft. I just score the lines deeply with n Exacto and rout it out by hand close to the line and then make a a few cuts with a sharp chisel.. Pretty easy, but I bet your jig works great. I've thought of making a jig like yours, but I often change the engraft shape and use different widths of wood purling or pearl sometimes. Guess your jig could have interchangeable patterns easily enough.

Nice piece of gear. Just like a bought one, only better.

Pegasus Guitars said:

Nice jig Allen. I do the same kind of curved engraft. I just score the lines deeply with n Exacto and rout it out by hand close to the line and then make a a few cuts with a sharp chisel.. Pretty easy, but I bet your jig works great. I've thought of making a jig like yours, but I often change the engraft shape and use different widths of wood purling or pearl sometimes. Guess your jig could have interchangeable patterns easily enough.

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Up to now I've done them the same, but with lasers, mills and CNC in the workshop I thought it was time to put some of the gear to use.

I think now that I've worked out the offsets, making something different will be a much easier task.

That's a really nice jig Allen. I better get busy as we close escrow on our machine shop in two weeks. I don't have 3 phase so I can't bring anything home, no room anyways. I was trying to keep my laser engraver but they want that too

Nice work Allen.