Another 511-year-old Woodworking Vise
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 Screw-driven vises are not modern inventions. The earliest screw-driven vise that I know of is this Italian vise that is circa 1300. I am always looking for earlier vises because the screw mechanism has been around since Archimedes, though his screw was originally used for irrigation. This year I have been delving deep into a codex that was written in 1505 by a patrician named Martin Loffelholz. The 76-page proto-book […]The post Another 511-year-old Woodworking Vise appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.
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Hand Tool Olympics: Post-Game Wrap-Up
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 Well, another Popular Woodworking in America has come and gone. It was a fine time indeed, meeting and greeting our readers and contributors, but, like all good things, the end (alas) was inevitable. As attendees returned to their homes and shops to recover, our staff headed back to the office to work on new books, videos and, in my case, the next issue of Popular Woodworking Magazine. But the memories […]The post Hand Tool Olympics: Post-Game Wrap-Up appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.
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