On Oct 23, 2014, at 12:57 PM, Anthony Seo  wrote:

> 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/7
2157648523527328/">https://www.flickr.com/photos/77280442@N.../sets/721576485235
27328/
> 
> 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.
> 

Thanks Tony. 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.

Bill------------------------------------------------------------------------