Wierd Vise? Gripper?

Re: Wierd Vise? Gripper?

Skip in Falls Church

>Hi JL,

Looks like a saw vise to me.

Skip

Re: Wierd Vise? Gripper?

Todd Hughes

>Looks like a Disston no. 1 saw vice though some others made simular ones. Appears to me the clamp mechanism has been repaired by brazing probably after a suicide leap off the bench....pretty common to see them with repairs like this....Todd

Re: Wierd Vise? Gripper?

JL

>That would figure as he had a long tool box full of saws. I also found a saw set (actually 2-3 of them). How is it used?

Re: Wierd Vise? Gripper? *LINK*

Bill Houghton, Sebastopol, CA

>YOu clamp it to a benchtop and then grip the saw, teeth up, as you have the framing square gripped. This holds it in position for you to joint, set, and file the teeth. Read up on it in any number of books in the library or below at Pete Taran's website


Pete Taran's treatise on saw filing

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JL

>Many thanks. Now I guess I will have to open the toolbox full of saws. I will be posting pics of those - hopefully ya'll will tell me which ones are keepers.

me thinks JL is heading down the slippppper slope.

Victor Parisian

>

Keepers?!

Joe Rogers

>Family tools...easy answer...all of them!JR

Re: me thinks JL is heading down the slippppper sl

JL

>Things don't have to have power cords, I have always known this. I will still use my DW 735 planer though.

I'd like to buy a 'Y'...

Victor Parisian

>Sorry, but I get this strange vision of JL sharpening his saw in his house slippers. :~)

Re: I'd like to buy a 'Y'...

JL

>I'd have to get a pair of slippers.