Lantern pin vise

[mklotz]

Interesting idea. Did you cut a longitudinal v in the jaws?

I'm often having to shorten bolts and screws and this looks like a good basis for what I need. I also think I'd do away with the thumb wheel and either use an Allen head or a screw the other one on your vise so it could lay flat on the bandsaw table I usually end up using.

Thanks for sharing.

It took a while but I finally got around to putting V-grooves in the jaws of the lantern pin-vise.



The V is small enough to grip a 2-56 screw. Smaller than that is a job for tweezers with cylindrical jaws.