Agh! I Got Fed Up With It

I have a woodworking vice on my bench (made from old garage roof bits) and it has had a succession of jaw inserts. Each of them has broken, the last one was a piece of scaffolding board that I didn't think would break, but it did:

So I finally got fed up with this and made a jaw from some bamboo flooring and some plywood:

Of course, the other jaw now looks bad, so I glued up another jaw to match. I had to use a lot of clamps on this, because I could.

 

I now (after sanding and filling and planing) have a pair of nice strong jaws, let's see how long they last...

Of course, I got fed up with the other vice next to this one and made some new wooden jaws for that too:

Hmm, that's better.

Aargh! The End Has Fallen Off. Again

Years ago I bought a vice that I have used a lot since. Unfortunately it came with a handle that has two round ends pressed on it:

 The problem with the handle is that the ends have a habit of falling off:

 After an end fell off for about the fifth time I finally got fed up enough to build another handle. The first attempt using some 12mm bolts failed as the material is just too nasty when machining it. You can just about turn the outside down, but drilling and tapping is impossible.  I used one of the chair legs that I chopped up with my bolt cutters to make a new handle:

The ends are turned aluminium held on with M6 cap head screws. If they fall off I can put them back on easily, and maybe use thread lock. So far so good, and it looks better too.