The Making Of An Iron Leg Vise From the Encyclopédie by Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d'Alembert Ever wonder how long the classic Blacksmith's iron leg vise has been around and how it was made by hand? Here is Plate No. 6 from the Encyclopédie volume on the making of tools. Think about that. You have to make tools in order to make tools. Without modern machinery. By hand. In a forge. With Plate 6 of Taillanderie, Suite de la fabrique des Etaux , now you can make your own iron leg vise. Let me know when you're finished with this project. A bit of history on Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d'Alembert: Back in 1765 Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d'Alembert published the Encyclopédie. " André le Breton , a bookseller and printer, approached Diderot with a project for the publication of a translation of Ephraim Chambers ' Cyclopaedia, or Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences into French, first undertaken by the Englishman John Mills , and followe...
