Thread: Looking for a Handle Maker!

Originally Posted by Texian

Interesting blog (whatever that is) T.L. Beautiful first picture and I would ride a bus to see it, but not all the way from here to there.

Thanks Texian. One day I'll evne blog about wood work and pottery.

And back to the handles, I reckon Stuffy is right. The base of the "handle/knob thingy" should be flat so the contact surface is spread out a little. Maybe like the hour glass but really squished? So more chubby looking. Mightn't hurt your leg so much to run into either.

Boz you can do this you have a pedestal drill, chisels, router, rasps maybe even spoke shaves or if really desperate power drill a man with your tallents can create what you want using the above.

No I am not taking away from FC who's work I admire just feel Boz is letting the darkside down.

Haven't used a leg vice, but I'm just wondering about some of the comments about "force", and "pushing and pulling".

I would have thought that the force would have been applied to the inside of the hole in the adjuster plate/blade and also to press the steel rod against the outside of the bench leg. Could you not just have the bare steel rod? (Ignoring aesthetics and personal preferences). Wouldn't it just slide in and out (when the vice was released).

If you had no handle, there would be nothing sticking out past the edge of the leg.

Another thought along the 'not sticking out' lines, is something similar in shape to a G-clamp, where the threaded part of the clamp represents the steel rod for this bench adjuster. Slip the gap over the adjuster blade, then slide the whole gimmick side to side to insert or remove the rod. (I'll have to do a diagram - I can imagine furrowed brows

Cheers,
Andrew