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Custom vise jaws experience?
I just picked up a nice drill press vise that has a cam lock fitting for repetitive clamping. I know there are soft jaws out there, and I'll probablly utilize those for one off work, but to get the most out of this vise I'd like to use it for drilling out belly weight holes of a standard depth/angle on a given bait repeatedly for increased conformity. My thinking was to make some sort of resin jaw heads (rtv? silicone?) that would be molded with half bait shape on each side to securely hold the bait in position. I could probably follow previous molding directions to help for this unique application, and I thought it might be good to put magnets in bottom of mold and/or alignment pins...
Just wondering if anyone has done anything like this before so I'm not re-inventing the wheel..Or other ideas? Pete (Hazmail) to my knowledge is the king of jigs on TU so hopefully he might help. Of course, I barely understand his jigs, let alone am a good enough machinist to make 'em, lol!
Thanks!
Clemmy
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