An everyday pair of pliers is okay more often than not, however for delicate work with squarish objects you possibly can’t go improper with a pair of parallel pliers. [Neil Paskin] determined to make his personal pair from scratch. (YouTube)

The jaws had been machined down from spherical inventory in [Paskin]’s mill earlier than warmth treating and tempering. The metal parts of the handles had been minimize from 16 gauge plate metal and half of them had been stamped on a fly press to make the bridging part across the pivot bolt. The filler for the handles is copper on one aspect and brass on the opposite as [Paskin] didn’t have sufficient brass of the proper measurement to do each.

The metal and filler had been joined with epoxy and copper pins earlier than beveling the perimeters and sanding to present a snug contour to the handles. The bolts for the pliers began as odd hex bolts earlier than being machined down on the lathe to a extra aesthetically-pleasing form and measurement. The ultimate touches included electrolytically etching a brand into the bridge after which spraying down the pliers with a mixture lubricant and corrosion preventative spray. That is certainly a pair of pliers price handing down via the generations.

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