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Richard G. · Mar 21, 2014

This was found by my son and his fiance in her great grandfather's things. It is about 4 feet long. I cannot imagine what you would clamp with this. The screw is made of wood.
Richard in NW SC

casenut1 · Mar 21, 2014

Looks like a leather vise.

Brian Allen · Mar 21, 2014

Richard G.
It is a clamp (usually attached to a work bench) for holding wood etc while working on it.
Brian

IH2444 · Mar 21, 2014

A vise I think to hold leather straps while working on harness construction/repair.

Wheat Farmer · Mar 21, 2014

Looks like the right side is adjustable for different thickness items. The strew handle looks smooth so a lot of pressure can not be applied.

Larry NEIL · Mar 21, 2014

I agree, a harness/leather vise .

DeltaRed · Mar 21, 2014

Leather/harness maker's vise

HughB · Mar 21, 2014

Old wooden vise. probably home made. Could be used to clamp wood, leather et. 4 ft long is why I think it is probably home made. You can still buy smaller versions of this from wood working company's.

Mark - IN. · Mar 21, 2014

I remember that. Uncle Fester Addams used to have Morticia crank down on it while he had his head in it until his headache popped. Always seemed to work as I recall.

Mark

Steve@Advance · Mar 21, 2014

It would be interesting to know how the screw and nut were made... That would have been some very accurate whittling if it were freehanded.

Mike in Mn. · Mar 21, 2014

My dad bought a grainery building back in 1952 from an old farmstead down the road that was being cleaned up and moved it to his place, had a vice very similar to that mounted to a bench inside, nice shape, still there.

JMS/.MN · Mar 22, 2014

Faint memory.....leatherwork/harness making device my Dad had, from previous generation. I"m 70 now. IIRC, it was mounted on a wood platform you sat on...straddled it while working leather. His might have had one fixed side (jaw)...other was tightened by a foot pedal. Instead of a fixed screw. I remember the tops of each side had more of a curve to the wood- for whatever reason? IDK. Yes...that brings back about 1950! We had something like that.

HillsofTn · Mar 22, 2014

No problem - back in the day, they had a gizmo to cut outside screw threads on wooden pegs and another one to cut inside threads. (A country boy can survive..........)

Bret4207 · Mar 22, 2014

(quoted from post at 04:45:25 03/22/14) No problem - back in the day, they had a gizmo to cut outside screw threads on wooden pegs and another one to cut inside threads. (A country boy can survive..........)

Yup, they were fairly common in areas with any kind of wood working industry. You can still but them new from places like Garret Wade last I looked.

We had wooden vices with wooden screws in our high school shop.

RBnSC · Mar 22, 2014

It's for animal training. You clamp it on a dogs ear and tighten it until he moves over and gives you room in the seat of an antique truck.

Ron

VADAVE · Mar 22, 2014

I've seen those in a woodshop usually attached to a bench. Becaise it's wooden doesn't mar the piece you're woking on. The handle is well away from the work so it doesn't get in the way. Last time I saw that was like 60 years ago, the old gentleman was building a guitar, or a banjo, and was working the edges of the skin to get the right shape.

Richard G. · Mar 22, 2014

If you look close, the screw head has i hole bored in it.
Richard

rrlund · Mar 22, 2014

Ya,a wooden leg vise. That brings back memories. I wasn't even a teenager yet when "Uncle Charlie" died. He wasn't really Dad's uncle,but a cousin to my Grand Dad,but I remember going to his estate auction on a Saturday just about like today. There was one old small building that had a lot of old tools like that in it. Dad bought a few things. There was a bench that had a vise similar to that. It's out here in a lean to on the shop.

Richard G. · Mar 22, 2014

Ron, I am guessing Miss Kitty is wishing she had one of those in this picture to move the Bear over.
Richard

Anonymous-0 · Mar 22, 2014

Larry,come out 30 miles west and I'll show you my Harness makers bench.It's a 4 legged contraption you sit on like a bicycle with a vertical wooden vise in front of you.One fixed arm and one that you tighten with a leather strap controlled by your foot and lockable with a pawl setup.

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