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I'm no gunsmith, but it is delightful to see a tool so thoughtfully designed ("you know, what we need are not only some soft jaws but we need ALL the jaws to be reversible"). And I thought I was the only one who saved the good zip-locks...
That vice looks like a good addition to any workshop, seems useful for more than just guns but also model making and other small to medium projects as well
That is indeed a lovely piece of gear alright, and I will readily admit that I am slightly envious. That said; I have recently done inventory of where I am in my "maker development" - and I realised a couple of perhaps obvious facts. While I am fortunate enough at this stage to have a fair collection of tools and materials, and find myself in the position that I can make or buy most things I find myself in need/want of, the absolutely most interesting and educational part of my maker journey was BEFORE I had the finances or tools to make that happen. It literally forced me to think differently; look at an item and think "how can I repurpose this", or, often, "I need a part that looks roughly like this - what household object do I have that has somewhat similar properties". The early days will stay with you forever, so for all of you Savage fans of The Savage that are just starting out and perhaps feel a multiplication of the jealousy I myself harbour - cherish the challenges your wallet cannot fix so your mind will have to pick up the slack; those are the skills that are unteachable as much as they are invaluable.
Your comment about the ziplock bag - I’m the same way with hardware. I previously worked for a large company and fought endlessly (unsuccessfully) to spend the extra few cents to provide good quality hardware with products. Makes a big difference to me when I receive nice hardware.
Hi Adam. I was such a fan of mythbuster. So glad to find your channel. I really miss Jaime Carrie and Tory too but I’ve got to say you are by far so talented and a pleasure to see at work. Love you man.
Thank you for turning me on to Twoodfrd several months ago, I play guitar but have never done any luthier work, but watching him do his thing has taught me a lot. Great channel.
I can't stand real avid products. I've never used any of them but they seem greatly overpriced for what they're used for. I can buy almost the same tools for a lot less at the local hardware store.
@@DThunder85 The Avid AR Tool is $50 if you look in the right places online. You can’t find a quality AR wrench for less and the hardware store does not have all the right tools to work on AR’s. I’m in one everyday looking for something to build something and rarely do they have what I need. They are right next store though so the slow walk through “tool world” is nice.
@@Die-CastMetal with the exception of my armorer's wrenches and AR vise blocks, I've gotten all of the tools I use on my guns from harbor freight (vise, screw drivers, allen wrenches, punches, torque wrench....).
Glass re-inforced nylon has a characteristic "ring" to it when thumped with your fingernail. If you ever visit a plastic injection molder, they should be able to demonstrate. Once you know what to listen for, you'll always be able to identify it.
One of these is now on my short list of things I want to get for my bench, I'm a big fan of being able to secure whatever I'm working on in whatever orientation is best for comfortably getting the job done
I have a small cheapy one of these and it is incredibly useful on my workbench. Just the other day I was having issues holding onto the 3D printed parts of my DC-15A Blaster Rifle as I assembled it and this type of vise really helped. Wish mine had the jaw options of this one. Mine only has aluminum or a thin rubber slipcover.
The rest of us grab our EDC ( Every Day Carry) folding knife from our pocket to open a box. Adam Savage takes two steps across the shop and plucks an X-Acto knife that could double as a scalpel from a fully stocked tool rack. Wait...it has holes to bolt to a workbench, but it *also* includes a sturdy clamp for temporary mounting. And not only non-marring jaw covers, but the reverse side is channeled to effectively clamp a barrel (or round stock)? Product placement or not, that vise just landed near the top of my to-get list.
What a cool vice! I love vices so this was particularly neat to me. I would love it if you did a tool tip video about some of the vices in your cave Adam!
I save pretty much all ziplock bags and anti static bags. Because there's always some small thing you need to keep together, and a small ziplock bag is just about perfect for doing so.
If that primary vice handle (torsion bar) can be bent so easily (even if only slightly) by a relatively light wooden mallet 'persuader' it doesn't speak well for its shop longetivity IMO, when things are likely to be overtorqued often by careless application of haste, resulting in further torsion bar deformation.. That being said, the general design looks superb, esp the almost full rotation & locking ability of gripping surfaces & reversible jaw cheeks! :) By the way Adam was holding & moving it I'd guess the main structure is cast aluminium; for my personal preference I'd prefer cast iron (or maybe even steel) for more structural integrity & permanence of installation, but that being said my portable cast aluminium vice is still performing well after 60yrs use, so maybe not as critical ;)
Normally I'd agree, but Bubba probably won't be allowed near this vise, and it will mostly be used for high-value items whose finishes won't tolerate rough handling.
Yeah I thought that too, and imo, the main screw to tighten the vise seemed to be pretty sticky and not as smooth as one would expect from an expensive vise
What an awesome advice! As I haven't checked the description yet I certainly hope it's in there. Thank you so much for this video this was awesome! Have a great day and stay safe and keep your powder dry!
This was great! I have a couple of tools from RealAvid and they make top notch stuff. My favorite ZipLoks are the ones where the two ends above the zip that you grab to open it are slightly offset in height, making it easier to find the opening. My question for you is, have you ever opened a box for a new tool and after examining it, thought, Man, I wish they had talked to me during design... Its almost perfect, but this one thing is just not right...
I dont have a vice like that, but I do have a carving vice that is somewhat similar. I ended up making a thick plywood base that I attach it to that is then screwed tightly to a 2x4 that I can then stick in my wood vice to hold it vs clamping it to the bench, so you could I am sure with your bench vices come up with something similar.
I do a lot of wood carving and have a smaller Stanley version mounted in a machinist vice, so it can move in any orientation at pretty much any height between sitting and standing. I think you'd really dig a set up similar with that one :)
I have tools from Real Avid and I really like their stuff. Would really like to have a vise like that. Just a bit out of my price range atm. Well see what the future holds.
oh the much needed 3rd hand, a little more movement range from the ball end & some wider opening jaws & that would be the perfect prop makers/cosplayer vice. I really need one of these I hope realavid send to down Oz.
I got the same vice to test. It is a neat vice the ball joint is a little ruff and gobbed with grease which if filing or cutting something all the shaving would get stuck in. I had to laugh ... RTFM.. very true it is not really intuitive on how all the pins are used. I had to pull out the manual and read it. But it for sure is a neat vice and will find a place in my shop.
Hey Adam, I started wrapping the smooth wood handles of my clamps with Hockey Stick tape (a Stumpy Nubs tip). They are so much nicer to use now. Pony and Bessey clamps are great, but the handles not so much. Ironically , the Harbor Freight clamps in that same style have a really nice grippy handle.
I’m a quadriplegic and use a swivel vice to hold and manipulate everything since I can’t physically… whether it’s measuring, assembly, disassembly, taking pictures, even opening packages… just bought a $60 swivel vice off Amazon that I like. I originally got an $18 Amazon special that was disappointing because the ball was not smooth and never clamped evenly. I really wanted a vice like yours (I looked at gun vices) they were just too expensive.
It's just the cadence of the delivery, but the way Adam built up to say the name at 0:25, it sounds like it was about to be something he would have to work on pronouncing. Just something that amused me, so I'm sharing!
That vise would be super useful for people doing electronic work on large circuit boards (like PC motherboards). Your typical panavise, while very good, aren't really sized for big motherboards.
I love that you made a video about experience a new product and I enjoyed every minute of it. if you wrote that down on paper I'd say no thanks lol but enjoyed every minute
Adam, I had a unique vise before with an odd mount to it. I actually made an adaptor out of T bar steel (just drilled mounting holes in it), mounted the Vise to the T Bar, so that I could just put the T bar in my normal mounted Vise for quick setup.
That's pretty cool! I wonder if you can use it to work on something delicate, with foam to hold. Or would that be scary? Idky I never saved those baggies; probably because I don't get things frequently enough. My favorite things that came extra are tiny screwdrivers (obviously came with tiny screws), and an actual real wrench instead of an allen wrench that came with an outdoor chair. Had allen bits, but really cool little wrench
Adam needs an Emmert pattern makers vise. But I can see that gunsmith vise being useful for a lot that he does too. Emmert pattern makers vises are not the easiest things to come by.
Only Adam would bluntly smack a bent vice handle with a giant mallet only an inch away from a screen used Matrix lightning blaster... :) Every tool's a hammer, and a hammer is always the right tool...
I'd be super curious to know how rigid that ball joint is. I would totally get myself one of these to hold stuff in weird orientations for filing and sanding.
Glad to see it is still a universal truth that, for any tech-minded person that works with tools... RTFM is always at least third or 4th option on the list of things to do when you have a new piece of gear
Is there a slot in the base to allow the post of the vise to flip all the way down parallel the the table? It's very much one of those "didn't expect that" kind of touches
You need too wear a set of horns at unboxings, so the adage, "bull in a china shop" could be applied, but we do enjoy your enthusiasm, at the first tape cut. 🤗 Oh, have seen the bull in a china shop episode, so know that you don't intentionality damage it, if such happens, but must have made Jamie a little twitchy....🤭
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Up to 100 lbs. of torque? Plastic? Much better options for half that price that will last a lot longer Adam.
That bent handle turned into a positive. Watching how little that thing moved when it was whacked with a mallet was pretty impressive.
I'm no gunsmith, but it is delightful to see a tool so thoughtfully designed ("you know, what we need are not only some soft jaws but we need ALL the jaws to be reversible").
And I thought I was the only one who saved the good zip-locks...
The fact you referenced Ave is absolutely amazing
RTFI that is a great new acronym that I will have to start using myself.
There's something I really love about clamping tools and their ability to solve temporary problems very well. Also, "THE CLAMPS!"
That vice looks like a good addition to any workshop, seems useful for more than just guns but also model making and other small to medium projects as well
That is indeed a lovely piece of gear alright, and I will readily admit that I am slightly envious. That said; I have recently done inventory of where I am in my "maker development" - and I realised a couple of perhaps obvious facts. While I am fortunate enough at this stage to have a fair collection of tools and materials, and find myself in the position that I can make or buy most things I find myself in need/want of, the absolutely most interesting and educational part of my maker journey was BEFORE I had the finances or tools to make that happen. It literally forced me to think differently; look at an item and think "how can I repurpose this", or, often, "I need a part that looks roughly like this - what household object do I have that has somewhat similar properties". The early days will stay with you forever, so for all of you Savage fans of The Savage that are just starting out and perhaps feel a multiplication of the jealousy I myself harbour - cherish the challenges your wallet cannot fix so your mind will have to pick up the slack; those are the skills that are unteachable as much as they are invaluable.
Also; I absolutely LOVE that The Savage is a fan of AvE - as empiric evidence of great taste as there ever was. :)
Just want to say, Adam you are amazing and I feel the need to thank you for being such a positive influence in my life. Have a great day!
Adam unpacks a brand new tool and 10 minutes later he's banging on it with a wooden mallet! I love it!
...and he didn't even take the priceless screen used movie prop out first! Classic Adam! :D
“RTFM” 😂 i will be taking and using this thank you sir
Your comment about the ziplock bag - I’m the same way with hardware. I previously worked for a large company and fought endlessly (unsuccessfully) to spend the extra few cents to provide good quality hardware with products. Makes a big difference to me when I receive nice hardware.
I'm totally jealous - That is a nice piece of equipment.
Hi Adam. I was such a fan of mythbuster.
So glad to find your channel.
I really miss Jaime Carrie and Tory too but I’ve got to say you are by far so talented and a pleasure to see at work. Love you man.
Rip Grant
@@shadowthehedgehog182 😢
Thank you for turning me on to Twoodfrd several months ago, I play guitar but have never done any luthier work, but watching him do his thing has taught me a lot. Great channel.
AvE is also quite excellent...not for the faint of heart perhaps though lol
I love the Real Avid Armors Wrench. Didn’t know they made a vise.
I can't stand real avid products. I've never used any of them but they seem greatly overpriced for what they're used for. I can buy almost the same tools for a lot less at the local hardware store.
@@DThunder85 The Avid AR Tool is $50 if you look in the right places online. You can’t find a quality AR wrench for less and the hardware store does not have all the right tools to work on AR’s. I’m in one everyday looking for something to build something and rarely do they have what I need. They are right next store though so the slow walk through “tool world” is nice.
@@Die-CastMetal with the exception of my armorer's wrenches and AR vise blocks, I've gotten all of the tools I use on my guns from harbor freight (vise, screw drivers, allen wrenches, punches, torque wrench....).
@@DThunder85 You won’t find a better Armors Wrench for that same money. Good Luck!
@@Die-CastMetal I went with the magpul wrench. Similar in price, has the same functionality, but its less bulky. Serves me very well.
Most unique Gundam model yet cheers Adam!
Loved the shout out to AVE.
Glass re-inforced nylon has a characteristic "ring" to it when thumped with your fingernail. If you ever visit a plastic injection molder, they should be able to demonstrate. Once you know what to listen for, you'll always be able to identify it.
Awesome vise, they should definitely try marketing it to others. Cabinet makers, woodworkers, carvers, makers and hobbyists would all love this thing.
AvE is the best so happy you mentioned that Canadian maker
One of these is now on my short list of things I want to get for my bench, I'm a big fan of being able to secure whatever I'm working on in whatever orientation is best for comfortably getting the job done
I have a small cheapy one of these and it is incredibly useful on my workbench. Just the other day I was having issues holding onto the 3D printed parts of my DC-15A Blaster Rifle as I assembled it and this type of vise really helped. Wish mine had the jaw options of this one. Mine only has aluminum or a thin rubber slipcover.
The poor box must have been thinking “ no disassemble Johnny 5”. Very cool video 👍👍
The rest of us grab our EDC (
Every Day Carry) folding knife from our pocket to open a box.
Adam Savage takes two steps across the shop and plucks an X-Acto knife that could double as a scalpel from a fully stocked tool rack.
Wait...it has holes to bolt to a workbench, but it *also* includes a sturdy clamp for temporary mounting. And not only non-marring jaw covers, but the reverse side is channeled to effectively clamp a barrel (or round stock)?
Product placement or not, that vise just landed near the top of my to-get list.
Bernstein also makes good workbench vises and they support repairing stuff.
Combining that mount with a Fractal Vise would be amazing!!!!!!
What a cool vice! I love vices so this was particularly neat to me. I would love it if you did a tool tip video about some of the vices in your cave Adam!
What an amazing bit of kit. Can see a lot of uses for it, not limited to actually working on my weapons. Which I do.
I save pretty much all ziplock bags and anti static bags. Because there's always some small thing you need to keep together, and a small ziplock bag is just about perfect for doing so.
If that primary vice handle (torsion bar) can be bent so easily (even if only slightly) by a relatively light wooden mallet 'persuader' it doesn't speak well for its shop longetivity IMO, when things are likely to be overtorqued often by careless application of haste, resulting in further torsion bar deformation..
That being said, the general design looks superb, esp the almost full rotation & locking ability of gripping surfaces & reversible jaw cheeks! :) By the way Adam was holding & moving it I'd guess the main structure is cast aluminium; for my personal preference I'd prefer cast iron (or maybe even steel) for more structural integrity & permanence of installation, but that being said my portable cast aluminium vice is still performing well after 60yrs use, so maybe not as critical ;)
Normally I'd agree, but Bubba probably won't be allowed near this vise, and it will mostly be used for high-value items whose finishes won't tolerate rough handling.
Yeah I thought that too, and imo, the main screw to tighten the vise seemed to be pretty sticky and not as smooth as one would expect from an expensive vise
man if you had had that when making the Mandalorian rifle it would have helped so much.
That's funny about the Zip-Loc bags...So I'm not the only one. Cheap and thin go straights in the ♻bin, and the decent ones get save for re-use.
What an awesome advice! As I haven't checked the description yet I certainly hope it's in there. Thank you so much for this video this was awesome! Have a great day and stay safe and keep your powder dry!
What do you have to do with What's App?
i would add a level or two on the vice so if you need a level grip on something you can do that really quickly
This was great! I have a couple of tools from RealAvid and they make top notch stuff.
My favorite ZipLoks are the ones where the two ends above the zip that you grab to open it are slightly offset in height, making it easier to find the opening.
My question for you is, have you ever opened a box for a new tool and after examining it, thought, Man, I wish they had talked to me during design... Its almost perfect, but this one thing is just not right...
I often cut a little triangle out of one side of all the "convenient" resealable packages things come in so they'll actually be convenient :-).
Your enthusiasm is contagious, sir. 🙂
I'll definitely be putting this on the wishlist
Looks like it would be good for knife making. I want one.
I dont have a vice like that, but I do have a carving vice that is somewhat similar. I ended up making a thick plywood base that I attach it to that is then screwed tightly to a 2x4 that I can then stick in my wood vice to hold it vs clamping it to the bench, so you could I am sure with your bench vices come up with something similar.
I do a lot of wood carving and have a smaller Stanley version mounted in a machinist vice, so it can move in any orientation at pretty much any height between sitting and standing. I think you'd really dig a set up similar with that one :)
I have tools from Real Avid and I really like their stuff. Would really like to have a vise like that. Just a bit out of my price range atm. Well see what the future holds.
I have used a piece of old carpet padding for my vise for when dealing objects that scratch or mar more easily than other materials
oh the much needed 3rd hand, a little more movement range from the ball end & some wider opening jaws & that would be the perfect prop makers/cosplayer vice. I really need one of these I hope realavid send to down Oz.
Nicely made, I'd love to see it with a second ball joint at the top of the post as well.
I got the same vice to test. It is a neat vice the ball joint is a little ruff and gobbed with grease which if filing or cutting something all the shaving would get stuck in.
I had to laugh ... RTFM.. very true it is not really intuitive on how all the pins are used. I had to pull out the manual and read it.
But it for sure is a neat vice and will find a place in my shop.
Adam, if you mount that clamp to a 4x4 you can chuck it into your bench vise.
Very cool!
Hey Adam, I started wrapping the smooth wood handles of my clamps with Hockey Stick tape (a Stumpy Nubs tip). They are so much nicer to use now. Pony and Bessey clamps are great, but the handles not so much. Ironically , the Harbor Freight clamps in that same style have a really nice grippy handle.
Ha! So Adam _does_ watch AvE, I did wonder after he made an angry pixies reference a few weeks ago :D
"What does this do?" makes the video much more watchable than 10 min of Adam reading directions.
I’m a quadriplegic and use a swivel vice to hold and manipulate everything since I can’t physically… whether it’s measuring, assembly, disassembly, taking pictures, even opening packages…
just bought a $60 swivel vice off Amazon that I like. I originally got an $18 Amazon special that was disappointing because the ball was not smooth and never clamped evenly. I really wanted a vice like yours (I looked at gun vices) they were just too expensive.
That's a bummer (about the price). Do you know what the vice is called that you got? Does it work better for you now?
@@gohawks3571 AIWL 360 degree… it’s orange. Replaceable jaws and the ball is smooth and has a nice, even, positive clamp. Works great!
@@widowmakerdesign Great; thanks!✌️
Real Avid makes great stuff.
5:51 I was saying "RTFM" out loud just before this! 🤣
It's just the cadence of the delivery, but the way Adam built up to say the name at 0:25, it sounds like it was about to be something he would have to work on pronouncing.
Just something that amused me, so I'm sharing!
A cracking bit of kit there. 👍
Real avid has a ton of cool stuff i don't have. Handy tools they got there.
RealAvid is pretty good stuff. I have a couple of their shotgun and Glock tools and use them all the time
That vise would be super useful for people doing electronic work on large circuit boards (like PC motherboards). Your typical panavise, while very good, aren't really sized for big motherboards.
i love that alpaca-spray shape!
RTFM best acronym ever!
It's been a while since the last time I heard someone mention the RTFM 🤣
I love it - Adam is not an RTFM kind of guy... ;)
Oh this is extraordinary, thank you for sharing a great piece of kit.
What an awesome vise. I’m afraid to even look it up because I just know it’s out of my ballpark already
AvE has a wonderful grasp of thr English language.
Great vise!
That be great for sculpting big stuff like faces
That looks nice !
Nice AvE shoutout
"RTFM" I think is my new favorite initialism. lol
What would be the best way to build and hang the starship enterprise? The one from the original motion picture is my favorite.
I love that you made a video about experience a new product and I enjoyed every minute of it. if you wrote that down on paper I'd say no thanks lol but enjoyed every minute
You know you just want to drill out the end of that handle and put a free spinning one on the end..... :P
"Should I RTFM?"
Shortly before that I was thinking "Adam really should look into the manual now."... 😁😇
I collect and reuse small ziplock bags in my board games for pieces and stacks of cards.
Adam, I had a unique vise before with an odd mount to it. I actually made an adaptor out of T bar steel (just drilled mounting holes in it), mounted the Vise to the T Bar, so that I could just put the T bar in my normal mounted Vise for quick setup.
Dang I don't even build anything but I want to live in that shop
That's pretty cool! I wonder if you can use it to work on something delicate, with foam to hold. Or would that be scary?
Idky I never saved those baggies; probably because I don't get things frequently enough. My favorite things that came extra are tiny screwdrivers (obviously came with tiny screws), and an actual real wrench instead of an allen wrench that came with an outdoor chair. Had allen bits, but really cool little wrench
Adam needs an Emmert pattern makers vise. But I can see that gunsmith vise being useful for a lot that he does too. Emmert pattern makers vises are not the easiest things to come by.
Funny he mentioned AvE, I literally came to this video from one of his.
Only Adam would bluntly smack a bent vice handle with a giant mallet only an inch away from a screen used Matrix lightning blaster... :) Every tool's a hammer, and a hammer is always the right tool...
That is amazing
Thanks for mentioning my name so much. But contrary to popular belief, my family are mostly makers, engineers, and artists. LOL
😛
That vise looks great! How does it hold up under torque? Their AR bench blocks are great
I'd be super curious to know how rigid that ball joint is. I would totally get myself one of these to hold stuff in weird orientations for filing and sanding.
Killed me with "RTFM"
Makes me want to find a fractal vise, or 3d print one.
I can not state how nerve-wracking it is watching you whack at that bar with the gun still in the vice 😅
Glad to see it is still a universal truth that, for any tech-minded person that works with tools... RTFM is always at least third or 4th option on the list of things to do when you have a new piece of gear
5:50 LOL I literally said "RTFM!" like 10 seconds earlier
What is that spray bottle with the little feets?
Is there a slot in the base to allow the post of the vise to flip all the way down parallel the the table? It's very much one of those "didn't expect that" kind of touches
Make sure you chooch that a good one
Vise handle needs to be thwacked in order to fall in place. Disregards the expensive finished prop in it’s jaws. Yep. Been there. Done that.
Thank God for Clamps
What is that four legged spray bottle, I’d “label it” Lama spit if it’s not a cleaner
I know adams going to drill/tap and put a knob on that vice handle LOL
You need too wear a set of horns at unboxings, so the adage, "bull in a china shop" could be applied, but we do enjoy your enthusiasm, at the first tape cut. 🤗
Oh, have seen the bull in a china shop episode, so know that you don't intentionality damage it, if such happens, but must have made Jamie a little twitchy....🤭
are you going to make a tool case?