October 8, 200817 yr Doing medieval forging demos, one of the things I miss is a vice. Get into the 1500,s and they start turning up in illustrations but prior to that I have drawn a blank. Does anyone have any illustrationsof early vices or references to them?
October 8, 200817 yr wait....ohhhhh... this is from 16th century, but I know you're looking for earlier. the design for it is basically identical to our modern ones
October 8, 200817 yr Sorry to go off topic, but Joseph, can you tell anything about that second print? Who did it? When and where? Thanks.
October 8, 200817 yr Use wedges and stops for a vise. Wedges go back to the paleolithic so you shouldn't have too much trouble justifying one as a vise. Frosty
October 9, 200817 yr Just another source for old images, this ones has a few. I notice that no vice appears in any Hammers, music and scales Also: interestingly, a strikingly similar image appears on this site, sans vice: Notice how small the stake is: From the Holkham Bible Picture Book. Edited October 9, 200817 yr by JosephPrivott
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