Okay, I kind of know what it is, but what is its function? Two separate vises mounted on the same base, on different planes, and the higher vise has a small anvil built in. It also has a hole, as if it should be mounted on a post of some type.




Lynn

Very interesting , looking forward to the answer.

That is neat, wouldnt know what to do with it or whats its intended for but still neat

What's the white stuff on the base and the thumbscrew cranks? lol
That might be a clue but not necessarily.

Gunsmith?

but I have no  facts to back that up

not a clue.

what interests me about it is the flat terminating in a horn at the base of the inside mouth of the higher clamp to the vice...that protrusion of metal on it looks like...a mini anvil?

Very strange vice, can't say I've seen anything like it either in wild or in catalogues. Odd is certainly the right word to use .
Lynn, are the jaws self centering IE do they both move in opposite directions ?
Graeme

My guess it that it is a clamp to hold some special part for machining. I am assuming itis mounted to something much larger. The part to be machined has a step in it and it locates on the point of the "anvil" for location/set up/repeatability..

looks to be made for something of a specific shape,when closed the jaws
seem diamond shaped.wish i knew what!!
brian

Quote from: anglesmith on August 05, 2013, 01:10:34 AM
Very strange vice, can't say I've seen anything like it either in wild or in catalogues. Odd is certainly the right word to use .
Lynn, are the jaws self centering IE do they both move in opposite directions ?
Graeme

Yes, Graeme, they are self centering.

Lynn

Quote from: HeelSpur on August 04, 2013, 07:02:53 PM
What's the white stuff on the base and the thumbscrew cranks? lol
That might be a clue but not necessarily.

That's dirt. I dug this out of a pile in a garage.

Lynn

I have --never-- seen anything like this.
The jaws are meant to hold round object(s) is all I know for sure.
V notches in vise jaws are always "pipe jaws"

  These are smooth, not toothed jaws. So whatever they were holding only needed light pressure,
  and did not care to be marred.
   yours Scott

Dose the hole align with the lower jaw? maybe a pipe through hole & clamped by small jaw?

This keeps saying jewelers vice to me. It's that cool little anvil that clinches it. You work on the uhh soldered bracelet in the lower vice and make another part for it on the anvil and upper vice.