[PROJECT] Clamp Knurling Tool

[EdK]

My next project is to make Tom's clamp knurling tool. I've needed a knurling tool for a long time now so when I saw Tom's thread on his knurling tool, that project jumped to the top of the list.

I've had a new Kurt D675 vise for awhile now and was saving it for when I got a bigger mill. I didn't think it would fit well on my bench-top mill but since getting a bigger mill is still a ways off, I decided that this project would be its maiden voyage. I had to build a lifting aid so I could get it up onto the mill table. My old fart back can't handle the lifting like it use to and I don't want to risk injury so I built the lifting aid that bolts to the vise. I used my cherry picker to lift it up onto the table. Overkill? Hell yes but my back thanks me.

Ed

Here are a couple of pictures of the vise on the mill.

   

   

And just so this post is actually related to the project, here's the blank I cut out from some 3/4" plate for the knurl holders.