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8th July 2013, 01:58 AM #16
Hey Paul. From the same seller ... I'll take two, thanks.
Paul
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8th July 2013, 12:13 PM #18
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I didn't consider bowsaw blades but did notice the void under the metal jaw liners and "assumed" that was a recess for the saw back. I know assuming is dangerous!
Actually, Paul, you may be on to something there. Remember those photos of French woodworkers renovating a French museum or university department (can't remember exactly). Did Chris Schwarz post them? They were taken circa 1900 (assuming again!). Any way, they all carried bowsaws. Not a nice Disston or S&J western style saw among them. Again assuming, perhaps Italian woodworkers used bowsaws over Disston or S&J western style saws too?
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8th July 2013, 10:37 PM #20
It would almost certainly be for bow saw blades. I've never seen a vintage 'Anglo saw' in France. All the vintage market saws I've seen are bow saws with the blades fixed with a nail at either end to the frame.
...I'll just make the other bits smaller.
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10th July 2013, 09:01 AM #21
I was wondering how the vise was attached? The base doesn't look to me like it was designed to be held in a larger vise but be a permanent attachment to a bench.
Also why is it "S" shaped in the legs if only the shallow depth at the top was to be used. The shape would make sense if it was to allow clearance from the jaws all the way down past the base?
Is it definitely a saw vise or was that someones assumption that has been carried on?
I have been admiring photos of that item for months.…..Live a Quiet Life & Work with your Hands
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10th July 2013, 09:28 AM #22
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10th July 2013, 09:57 AM #23
Well, someone in the past obviously thought so - there are a lot of file-marks across those jaw inserts! That is supportive evidence that it was used for bowsaw blades, I reckon, because you don't have much to grip with a narrow blade, and so very little protrusion of the teeth you are working on, & therefore you are much more likely to hit the jaw tops while filing.
And I think the S-shaped stiles only makes sense in the saw vise context, as they are oriented exactly how you'd expect for saw clearance, especially if positioned at the edge of the bench for bowsaws, as NC suggests. Must say that I would not want a base like that, myself, but NC's other suggestion that it was stuck down with a couple of hodlfasts makes sense, though I would have expected some visible wear marks if that had been the case. Perhaps the owner was very careful to put a slip of wood under the holdfast to prevent marking, some other method was used to secure it?
Cheers,IW
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10th July 2013, 12:44 PM #26
Ah. I had taken that for the wood grain. In that case I will suggest that shows a regime of rip-only filing.
It is 12" across. My first idea was that it might be held in a tail-vice such as Ian is enamoured of.
I can think of two other ways it might be used in a normal face vice.
1 - with a turning bladed bowsaw, the handles etc could lie back on the bench with the blade in the vice.
2 - with a rectangular frame-saw with the blade up the middle.
Same seller as the jointer ... "See other items".
The same guy waving things around on the 'net like ...
47613a.jpg and Vance-Landis PA 1a.jpg <<swoon>>
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