benchvise is a very important tool for anybody working in the shop problem is is they've got the serrated teeth that will grab into softer metals like aluminums and brasses so you want to build yourself to set us off jaws now you could go out and buy a set and the problem i have with the store-bought ones is that guys tend to keep them too long they figure they paid good money for them they don't want to don't want to part with them at that point but it really doesn't take much to just fabricate yourself a set of soft jaws for your vise and then you'll be able to hold fittings like aluminum and and brass parts without scarring them up and i've built a paper template that kind of shows that what we're going to do here is we're going to take a piece of aluminum we're going to bend it and then we're going to form cut two tabs and those will be bent around the vise and those will hold the soft jaw in place while we're using the vise and then it's just a matter of pulling up the tabs and you can take them off if you need the vice to hold something like some metal parts that won't be marred up so i've already started by i took this piece of aluminum after making my template took this piece of aluminum and i've built my template using our aviation snips we'll cut these out with this beefier area we'll make a rough cut first now with that cut out we'll move forward to actually installing a set of these as you can see it's relatively easy to build this set clamp them in your vise okay let me grab a hammer and then it's just a matter of forming these tabs over the jaws of your vise now you have a set of jaws that you can clamp stuff in and when you're done with them it's just a matter of pulling up the tabs and you're back to your regular vise