Thread: Vice

I got this yesterday and when I saw it I just had to have it.

As you can see it is a vice but can you guess what it is for?

A little hint.

The only blade I had handy was a diamond one!



Does anyone have any ideas about where to look up something like this. It has no factory marks but doesn't in many ways look homemade.

Well, that was a pretty good hint.

Was common here for the carpenter to make his own. Of course with the new tungsten tip blades they are more or less obsolete. Another lost art, sharpening handsaws and circular saw blades.

I have no idea the last time I sharpened and set the teeth on a saw blade of any kind. Even handsaw blades are so cheap it makes no sense to sharpen them anymore and they get such little use that they will go for more than a decade right out of the package. I did learn how to when I was an apprentice.

Yeah, those new hard tooth saws are good until you hit a nail. A shame, some of those old Disston handsaws were a work of art. Amazing steel, you could bend them till the handle touched the tip and they would spring right back.

I figured this would be the place share my interest in lost arts!

With this vice as an example I would love to see other work made by this craftsman.

With my interest in all things sharp I have a small collection of vices. Along with this latest one I have a couple of smaller ones for handsaws and one larger one that would hold a two man crosscut. various saw sets around..

One of these days I have to learn how to use them!

Originally Posted by 32t

The only blade I had handy was a diamond one!

Does anyone have any ideas about where to look up something like this. It has no factory marks but doesn't in many ways look homemade.

You might contact Martin. He got started in researching history when he acquired either his Grandfather's or Great Grandfathers wood working hand tools.