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  • Check out this early 19th century 'floor vice'...

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    Anybody seen anything like it before?

    There's more pics here...

    https://www.drewpritchard.co.uk/products/vice

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    Re: Check out this early 19th century 'floor vice'...

    Any idea what it was used for? The link wouldn't open for me.

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    • #3
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      That's okay; the vice won't, either!
      There's a lot of things they didn't tell me when I signed on with this outfit....

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      • #4
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        saw marks perpendicular to clamping plane are particularly interesting
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        • #5
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          Construction details. Those rear legs splay out and have alot of shape at the vice end. I'm guessing the A part was a crook. A capable woodworker made that. It says they think early 1800's, south European.

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          • #6
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            Needs a peg in one of the holes in that bottom timber for it to work.

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            • #7
              Re: Check out this early 19th century 'floor vice'...

              Originally posted by WszystekPoTrochu
              saw marks perpendicular to clamping plane are particularly interesting
              Yes. Wonder what they used it for? Clearly it's been rode hard and put away wet (for a long time).

              Large oak and elm structure with incredible worked surface, colour and form. Sculptural form, large scale, highly original. Southern European, circa 1800. H:71 W:47 D:145 CM. H:28 W:18.5 D:57 INCHES.


              You would not enjoy Nietzsche, sir. He is fundamentally unsound. — P.G. Wodehouse (Carry On, Jeeves)

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              • #8
                Re: Check out this early 19th century 'floor vice'...

                Carvers like to sit...clamping it tight without any racking as clearly they went to the trouble of that, so it must have been short stock sitting up proud. Carvers 'workbench'?

                It's not in Schwarz main book or his low bench book, or in Landis'.

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                • #9
                  Re: Check out this early 19th century 'floor vice'...

                  Originally posted by Edward Pearson
                  Carvers like to sit...clamping it tight without any racking as clearly they went to the trouble of that, so it must have been short stock sitting up proud. Carvers 'workbench'?

                  It's not in Schwarz main book or his low bench book, or in Landis'.
                  That makes sense. Clamp the workpiece in the vice, site on it and carve. And use the seat as a sawbench for roughing out the workpiece.
                  You would not enjoy Nietzsche, sir. He is fundamentally unsound. — P.G. Wodehouse (Carry On, Jeeves)

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                  • #10
                    Re: Check out this early 19th century 'floor vice'...

                    Impressive piece of kit.

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                    • #11
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                      I'm particularly impressed by the thread cutting.How was it achieved and how did they know if the male and female would match?

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                      • #12
                        Re: Check out this early 19th century 'floor vice'...

                        I would venture that the 'seat" isn't a seat, unless those old boys clamped up their junk and sawed the end off.
                        Prolly only happen once.
                        R
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                        • #13
                          Re: Check out this early 19th century 'floor vice'...

                          Yep, Evan used it in the Garden of Eden. Adam was impressed!
                          Rick

                          Lean and nosey like a ferret

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                          • #14
                            Re: Check out this early 19th century 'floor vice'...

                            I was thinking a heavy duty stitching pony, but the grooves in the wood are hard to explain.

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                            • #15
                              Re: Check out this early 19th century 'floor vice'...

                              Originally posted by John Meachen
                              I'm particularly impressed by the thread cutting.How was it achieved and how did they know if the male and female would match?
                              Dreading, you say?

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