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[bugbear]

Yesterday I found one of these:

I found one before, 5 years ago. It's not quite as exotic as my flintlock mainspring vice, but it's pretty unusual.

And now I have two(*)!

BugBear

(*) which is two more than I need.

 

[Gerard Scanlan]

So you can really put the thumb screws on your suppliers now
What a beauty!
Gerard

 

[adidat]

What is it? I realise its a vice btw.


Adidat

 

[MickCheese]

Looks like a nut splitter. So what is it actually?

Mick

 

[Tinbasher]

I fear it may be a nipple splitter :-0

 

[bugbear]

I'm sure Jacob will know.

http://swingleydev.com/archive/get.php? ... 86#message

It's a spoke wrench for a penny farthing.

BugBear

 

[AndyT]

I like that a lot - can I join the waiting list for the next one you find?

 

[bugbear]

Here's the gun vice:

Far better made and detailed than it needs to be. Beautiful.

BugBear

 

[AndyT]

Is there any utilitarian purpose to the holes and slits on the thumbscrew? Would it have been attached to a cord and carried about? I do agree that it is very pleasingly decorative with those sweetly filed curves.

 

[bugbear]

Is there any utilitarian purpose to the holes and slits on the thumbscrew?

I don't know.

Would it have been attached to a cord and carried about? I do agree that it is very pleasingly decorative with those sweetly filed curves.

Don't get me started - I've got "some" dividers, calipers, hand vices etc that are gorgeous, in the same filed and chamfered way.

BugBear

 

[AndyT]

Don't get me started - I've got "some" dividers, calipers, hand vices etc that are gorgeous, in the same filed and chamfered way.

BugBear

Oh go on, go on, go on!