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  1. 7th April 2022, 05:59 PM #1
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    Default 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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  3. 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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    Definitely a wood carvers vice )

    Thanks for the head up....much appreciated.

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    It looks like the small jaws on a pattern maker's vice, the holy grail..
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    For carving rocking horses
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    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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    Quote Originally Posted by GraemeCook View Post
    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.
    50 years ago, was around 1970.
    The Woodworker magazine (a UK publication) was almost certainly the source of the design, Popular Woodworking was first published in 1981.
    My guess would be an issue from sometime in the late 1940s or early 1950s
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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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    Quote Originally Posted by Tom trees View Post
    There's a metal version of that called a parrot vice used for musical instruments.
    Maybe Luthiers mercantile international "LMI" still sells em.
    They do, and it pivots both vertically and horizontally - like a very basic pattern makers vise.
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    The late Jim Hughes (Mareeba) crafting a rocking horse at 2006 Proserpine Turnout using his carvers vice.
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    Nice to see that I am not the only person using stacked saw horses!

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