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   UncleDunc | Feb 11, 2003 03:39am | #1

   I used to see them from time to time on eBay, so keep checking.

   I've also seen several different plans over the years for making a saw vice out of solid wood or plywood. If you go for a very wide jaw, it takes a little engineering to keep the jaws stiff enough to grip along their full length, but it's not impossible.

   
   

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   Edited 2/10/2003 10:34:16 PM ET by Uncle Dunc

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   vanderpooch | Feb 11, 2003 06:38am | #3

   this site sells vises, saws, files, etc.

   pete taran is a cool guy, too.

   http://www.vintagesaws.com

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   dirtstirrer | Feb 11, 2003 05:34pm | #4

   Wow,  that is one heck of a web site!  I could spend hours there.  Thanks for posting it.

               Steve

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   jc21 | Feb 11, 2003 06:13pm | #5

   Thanks for the link! I've heard of pete but never could find the website. Still kickin' myself for selling my D-23's years back. Are there still any decent new handsaws being made?

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   toolpoor | Feb 11, 2003 04:19am | #2

   Try a few local antique stores, they are very common stock in any that carry old tools. Price here in Maine usually runs about $10 - 25 for one of the old iron ones that clamp to a bench and are adjustable for angle. And, if you don't find a saw vise, there usually is lots of other old tools to discover. Also, on page 178 of Garrett Hack's book "Classic Hand Tools" there is a picture of the saw vise he made to use. It looks much more usable than the old iron vises. If you go the antique store route, be careful. You can come down with "old tool disease". Weekends are spent scrounging through antique stores, flea markets, and junk stores. You learn phrases like "I couldn't leave it there for that" and "I had to kinda tuck that away where the wife wouldn't see it". The shop fills up - with tools. Sharpening takes days rather than hours. Your friends just shake their heads, and their wives won't let them tag along on a week-end run. You spend your time working ON your tools, not WITH them.

   Maybe it would be better just to build the wooden vise. Much cheaper, and it will take up way less room.  Good luck.

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   IanDG | Feb 11, 2003 10:59pm | #6

   I'd never seen one until I came to America -- we used to make ours on site using 2 pieces of 2" x 4" about 4' long and scraps of flooring, casing, etc.

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   The saw sits in the vees and is held in place by a piece of 1" x 2" either side which is notched to fit the slope of the vees. (The hole drilled at the end of the vertical saw-cut in the 2" x 4" is to stop it splitting.)

   IanDG

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   Jeff | Feb 12, 2003 12:33am | #7

   Seems simple enough.

   Thank you Jeff

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   seramala | Feb 12, 2003 01:51am | #8

   Jeff,

   I have two old saw vises and you are welcome to them both. I might take me a few days to find them but they are in there somewhere. I have seen them in the local antiques mall, too. write to me at [email protected] and i will get together with you on them.

   Larry