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251343 | William Ghio <bghio@m...> | 2014‑10‑23 | Wooden Vise |
I am a sucker for user made tools. I find the craftsmanship and creativity involved in these tools to often be amazing. And of course, sometimes you just have to wonder why? What was the motivation? Recently SWMBO and I took off for a week of travel thru southern New England. We love to poke around in small towns and small town antique shops and of course at this time of the year there is the wonderful fall color. While crossing Connecticut we even managed a brief visit w/ Josh Clark for a little tool talk. Heading out onto Cape Cod, in Bourne as I recall, we stopped at a shoppe. Joanne was ahead of me and she said I should check out the vise in the next booth -- she has become a great rust spotter. But there was little rust on this vise, it's mostly made out of wood. It looks like a regular bench top vise. The 3 1/2-inch wide jaws are about 7-inches above the bench. They are opened and closed w/ an Acme screw and there is a wood screw w/ a nut at the bottom of the jaws to keep them aligned. There are screw holes in the bottom of the case that holds the Acme screw to suggest that it had been screwed to a bench top from beneath. There are also two screw holes in each side which may mean it had some kind of added rails to hold it to a bench. The jaws are leather lined. My first thot was that it was a leather worker's vise, but I think it is too slow for a leather worker. My impression has always been that they need to grasp and release often and quickly. Seems too big for a jeweler's vise. Whatever it is for, it is well made w/ wonderfully bold dovetails to hold the case/mount to the jaws. Any one seen one like this? Ideas on what trade it might have been created for? Pictures are at: https://www.flickr.com/photos/77280442@N.../sets/7215 7648523527328/">https://www.flickr.com/photos/77280442@N.../sets/721576485235273 28/ Bill |
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251345 | Anthony Seo <tonyseo@p...> | 2014‑10‑23 | Re: Wooden Vise |
At 12:45 PM 10/23/2014, William Ghio wrote: >I am a sucker for user made tools. I find the craftsmanship and >creativity involved in these tools to often be amazing. And of >course, sometimes you just have to wonder why? What was the motivation? >Any one seen one like this? Ideas on what trade it might have been >created for? > >Pictures are >at: https://www.flickr.com/photos/77280442@N.../sets/7215764852352732 8/">https://www.flickr.com/photos/77280442@N.../sets/72157648523527328/ That is a gunsmith's vise. The leather lined jaws are to prevent damage to the stock and barrel. I have had a couple but they were newer ones. That is a great find. Tony (with a few vices and vises.....) Olde River Hard Goods http://www.oldetoolshop.com">http://www.oldetoolshop.com TSMusic on Facebook http://www.facebo ok.com/tonyseomusic |
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251352 | Ed Minch <ruby@m...> | 2014‑10‑23 | Re: Wooden Vise |
Bill Is that a dark stain/paint on the top of the jaws? Was the leather put on after the staining was done? Ed Minch On Oct 23, 2014, at 12:45 PM, William Ghio |
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251353 | William Ghio <bghio@m...> | 2014‑10‑23 | Re: Wooden Vise |
It appears to be brown paint and went on after the leather was applied. On Oct 23, 2014, at 4:29 PM, Ed Minch wrote: > Bill > > Is that a dark stain/paint on the top of the jaws? Was the leather put on after the staining was done? > > Ed Minch > > > > > On Oct 23, 2014, at 12:45 PM, William Ghio |
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251361 | Gye Greene <gyegreene@g...> | 2014‑10‑24 | Re: Wooden Vise |
...and 12 minutes after posting, he has his answer. The Porch is simply amazing... :) --Travis On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 2:57 AM, Anthony Seo |
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251365 | William Ghio <bghio@m...> | 2014‑10‑24 | Re: Wooden Vise |
On Oct 23, 2014, at 12:57 PM, Anthony Seo |
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251366 | Don Schwartz <dks@t...> | 2014‑10‑24 | Re: Wooden Vise |
On 10/24/2014 8:48 AM, William Ghio wrote: > The gunsmith use makes sense. It appears to have been mounted to resist lateral or twisting forces and putting a long gun in the vise would certainly produce those forces. It also gets the piece up higher for detail work and, being wood, it will not produce so much pressure at the jaws to be likely to damage anything. Now, I just have to find a use for it or own up to the vice of vises. Seems to me it would be real useful for shaping with spokeshave & files or for carving. Don |
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251375 | Thomas Conroy <booktoolcutter@y...> | 2014‑10‑24 | Re: Wooden Vise |
Bill Ghio asked: "Any one seen one like this? Ideas on what trade it might have been created for? > https://www.flickr.com/photos/77280442@N.../sets/72157648523527328/" >https://www.flickr.com/photos/77280442@N.../sets/72157648523527328/ < It might originally have been made to be held in an ordinary bench vise, to be tilted and turned so that a workpiece can be attacked from different sides. Sort of a home-made patternmakers' or carvers' vise. Tom Conroy Berkeley |
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251381 | Bill Ghio <bghio@m...> | 2014‑10‑25 | Re: Wooden Vise |
Sent from my iPad > On Oct 24, 2014, at 5:42 PM, Thomas Conroy |
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