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    Quote Originally Posted by Rob F View Post
    Wow that looks great.
    Out of curiosity would it a bad idea to make the "dish" in the rotating top part to avoid a scale trap? Would the moving part fail due to thinner cross section in the middle?
    Might be a solution looking for a problem. We'll have to see if it's a problem first, I suspect it won't be.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Rob F View Post
    Wow that looks great.
    Out of curiosity would it a bad idea to make the "dish" in the rotating top part to avoid a scale trap? Would the moving part fail due to thinner cross section in the middle?


    Mine is kind of the same as grants, not as refined though, and have never cleaned out the scale. No problem

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    Grant, did you wind up trading this for the Fisher vise?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mark View Post
    Grant, did you wind up trading this for the Fisher vise?
    Yep!
    “There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot,
    but then there are others who, with the help of their art and their intelligence,
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