Poor Man's Contest Winner

Need a portable vise for shows and demonstrations?
Bolt a length of pipe on to a tire rim and you have the perfect, easy-to-assemble answer. Great for carving sessions when you’re on the road in your motor home

Secure your carvings to the vise by screwing to the pipe flange, which in turn is screwed onto the 6” length of pipe. These flanges are inexpensive. Buy several extra and you can keep several carvings in progress mounted for quick attachment to the vise.

Move your carving with a quick twist on the carriage handle. The vise provides three different ways to adjust your work:
1) raise or lower the height of your piece.
2) Angle your piece forward or back through a full 180 degrees of rotation. 3)Turn your piece a full 360 degrees.

Lynn Diel hard at work carving some Santas on his “Poor Man’s” vise. By bolting the vise to a 2 x 4, Lynn has found a comfortable way to carve at the vise.

Lynn, a computer resources manager at the College of Education in Columbia, MO has only been carving for a year. Always intrigued by carving, it wasn’t until his 13 year old son, David, showed an interest in carving that he learned to carve. Now both father and son are faithful regulars at the Columbia Wood Carving Club, meeting every Tuesday night to take classes together. Favorite project - Santas. “My early Santas looked like they had been hit in the face with a shovel” laughs Lynn. “But I’ve improved a lot since then.”