Tools and their uses, Prepared by the US Navy (Bureau of Naval Personnel)
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Gosh. I would like to see the blacksmith's vise getting used. (S'pose I can do so, somewhere in the YouTube arcades.)
Over time, two or three smiths came out to the farmlet to trim feet and set shoes, and I'd watch the smiths at the race track all the time as a kid. But I'm pretty certain I never saw a fixture anything like that one. Mostly, if memory serves, the smith just had a small stout bench vise bolted to the bed of his pickup; maybe an anvil as well, with a cone and a flat.
I think I've seen blacksmiths vises with a ball on the bottom of the leg. I assume it's portable, and the floor connection would add to the stability. I'm not sure about the threaded portion in the illustration.
5 comments:
Gosh. I would like to see the blacksmith's vise getting used. (S'pose I can do so, somewhere in the YouTube arcades.)
Over time, two or three smiths came out to the farmlet to trim feet and set shoes, and I'd watch the smiths at the race track all the time as a kid. But I'm pretty certain I never saw a fixture anything like that one. Mostly, if memory serves, the smith just had a small stout bench vise bolted to the bed of his pickup; maybe an anvil as well, with a cone and a flat.
Thanks for rooting up those pics, Mr. G.
I think I've seen blacksmiths vises with a ball on the bottom of the leg. I assume it's portable, and the floor connection would add to the stability. I'm not sure about the threaded portion in the illustration.
The blacksmith vises are designed to be hammered on, and that leg transmits the force down to the floor.
That doesn't mean, of course, that bench vises aren't often hammered on.
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Interesting how much the blacksmith's vise looks like the jeweller's vise from my Grandad's tool box:
http://tooltiques.net/Photos2016/august/0816-9466-001.jpg
(not actually Grandad's, but a really good picture).
rdguy
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