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This is a continuation of this thread. http://luthiersforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10101&t=46620&hilit=leg+vice

I finally finished a leg vice I have been periodically working on.
It's made from an inexpensive veneer press screw converted with a couple of hardware store parts as shown in the original thread. That makes it considerably less expensive than using a full sized vice screw.

Because I wanted it to work for cellos and basses, I built the back jaw with a pivot system that accommodates the more severe fingerboard taper safely.
The hinge on the bottom has a bolt pivot that lines up parallel to a faceted hardwood plate. The screw nut can move without the threads binding.
It was meant to just be a prototype, but works well enough it will be the real thing for at least few years.

Thanks to all who shared their vice designs.

Pretty cool David!!!

Wonder how to play Purple Haze on a cello......

Very nice. Yeah those dedicated leg vice screws aint cheap for sure.

Brilliant little mod! I have on very rare occasion clamped a violin or bass in my vice, and if I were planning to do this at all regularly I would consider stealing that twist feature at putting in in to mine.

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Eschew obfuscation, espouse elucidation.

Happy to oblige...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ae23y2D8VSI

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The name catgut is confusing. There are two explanations for the mix up.

Catgut is an abbreviation of the word cattle gut. Gut strings are made from sheep or goat intestines, in the past even from horse, mule or donkey intestines.

Otherwise it could be from the word kitgut or kitstring. Kit meant fiddle, not kitten.

WOW that was VERY cool!!! And they are really getting into it as well.

Thanks Colin!!!

Poor Jimmy, if he only knew how much easier it would have been to set a cello on fire!