The Nuts of “Ingenious Mechanicks”




The top right image is from a 17th-century Spainish painting. The next two vice nuts on the right are late 19th-to-early 20th century from Guatemala and Mexico. The vise nut on the left is of a similar date and also from Mexico.

“Ingenious Mechanicks” explores a multitude of workholding methods early woodworkers devised to enable them to work more easily and efficiently. The book offers the modern woodworker options, including what form or shape you chose for vise nuts.

-Suzanne Ellison

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7 Responses to The Nuts of “Ingenious Mechanicks”

  1. NR Hiller says:

    You are a naughty woman.

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  2. Reblogged this on Preindustrial Craftsmanship and commented:
    Okay dammit. Now I have to make some of these…


  3. Double bunny ears were known to Roman woodworker’s as “lepus aures duplici” or LADs for short. As in “Give the lads another half a turn.” or “My lads have got stuck.”


  4. Bruce Lee says:

    I came across an illustration of a large ‘hurricane’ nut being used in a grape/olive press. Looks to be from the German parts around Switzerland. It was on Pinterest ( without a direct link, but the reference is:
    Monat September Kunstwerk: Federzeichnung koloriert ; Illustrationszyklus Naturwissenschaft ; Miniatur ; Süddeutsch Dokumentation: 1475 ; 1475 ; Wien ; Österreich ; Wien ; Österreichische Nationalbibliothek ; cod. 3085 ; fol. 8r Anmerkungen: Biblia Pauperum.


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