Hello Flynn. I hope you are still willing to chat about your Stevens Lever Vise (or is it "Stephens" as the patent indicates?). I just acquired one the other day. In the process of restoring it (I was just going to do a surface cleaning) the guts fell out of the vise. I tried every conceivable way to reassemble the parts but failed. Last night I found the patent for this vise that you spoke of and it gave me a diagram of how those parts are supposed to fit in there. As soon as I get a minute, I will work on the reassembly process. Naturally, since I now have the entire vise disassembled, I will shine and oil every millimeter, inside and out. I will keep you posted. Also... There is so little information out there about this vise, I want to launch you a big THANK YOU for helping me figure out what I was in possession of. I am still not sure if this vise will be the one in my shop or one for the shelf. I really want to use it as it was made for.