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7th April 2022, 05:59 PM #1Member
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What type of Vice is this?
Hello,
Saw this gentleman using this vice on his bench in a YT video. It just bolts to his bench top from underneath using a dirty great butterfly nut.
Does this style of vice have a special name or is this just a one-off DIY job ? Although I did see another puppet maker on a different video use a similar looking vice but have lost the link to it
I like the idea as the craftsman didn't have to stoop as much to work on his sculpture.
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Cheers
Mal
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7th April 2022, 06:20 PM #2.
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The pointed jaws makes me think it's a carvers vice of some kind.
About 16 years ago I made a small one that fits i into a regular WW vice.
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Aw, very nice - ah yes that makes sense - he was carving a puppet )
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7th April 2022, 06:49 PM #4Member
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Definitely a wood carvers vice )
Thanks for the head up....much appreciated.
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8th April 2022, 01:46 PM #5
It looks like the small jaws on a pattern maker's vice, the holy grail..
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8th April 2022, 03:23 PM #6
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12th April 2022, 01:57 PM #7
Hi Mal
Wooden vises like that, and many other designs - some good, some truly horrible - were popular high school craft projects fifty years ago.
I think that design actually came from Popular Woodworking magazine.
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Some vises also had wooden screws - frequently lignum vitae which was then readily available.
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12th April 2022, 02:56 PM #8regards from Alberta, Canada
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There's a metal version of that called a parrot vice used for musical instruments.
Maybe Luthiers mercantile international "LMI" still sells em.
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17th April 2022, 12:17 PM #10
They do, and it pivots both vertically and horizontally - like a very basic pattern makers vise.
Shop Fox Parrot Vise
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17th April 2022, 08:14 PM #11
The late Jim Hughes (Mareeba) crafting a rocking horse at 2006 Proserpine Turnout using his carvers vice.
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19th April 2022, 12:51 PM #12
Nice to see that I am not the only person using stacked saw horses!
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