Hays : I think you have a home made vice. I have the exact same pin vice that I use at work to set diamonds in earrings. The one I have has the word india on it. My buddy has one also and his has a cross hatch pattern on the barrel but the handle has straight machine lines. We can interchange the barrels same theads. Thats what leads me to believe that this one is a home made vice or some one that used jewelers pin vices as part of there production to save some Dollars.

Remember that some of the first commercial fly tying vices were made in Elgin, Illinois. Why because that is where there was a large center for making tools for the watch industry. The step would have been a small one for them. No other state but Massachuetts (sp) had more watch factories. Illinois had seven factories Elgin being the largest that is why most of the tooling was done in Elgin.

One more thing to think about most of the major fishing manufacturing is or was located in the midwest. And most of the modern fishing innovations started in the prairie lakes of the upper midwest. But in recent years it has shifted to the southern US.

Alway something to ponder!!!!!!


Redman