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Here is one that Chris Pyle bought from Dan Erlewine at a show - don't know when, but it appears to be a scanned photograph, so 15-20 years?

https://www.flickr.com/photos/ruby1638/22013817674/in/album-72157636540926993/

Chris has raised the bench with leg extensions. This vise has a device (a vise device?) borrowed from cabinetmaker's leg vises. Also, at the bottom of the 2 legs is a bar sticking left with holes in it - as you open the jaws, you put a pin (black circle at bottom of left jaw) in the appropriate hole to keep the jaws parallel when you tighten them. For guitars, this is redundant because we are grabbing necks that are all within a small range of widths and you can build the vise with this distance between the jaws. I suppose you could grab a body - David and Hesh, do you do this?

Ed