Quote Originally Posted by C-Bag View Post
Yes, a deep bow to your vast knowledge and expertise Marv. I have learned so much from your posts. Especially nomenclature.

I'd never heard of the term pin vise before one of your past posts, now a lantern pin vise. Is that because of the hole for head of the bolt? I'd always seen lantern style referred to on some lathe tool posts and never thought about it thinking is was just an obscure http://www.homemadetools.net/forum/l...85772reference. But I guess if it didn't have the tool holder in it, it would resemble an old lantern. But I almost never saw them without a tool holder in them.
Lantern in this usage refers to anything that sort of looks like a lantern. A "lantern" tool post has a sort of cartouche-shaped opening into which one inserts the lathe tool. Viewed conceptually, it looks a bit like an antique lantern, the hole representing the "window" through which the candle flame was seen.

Jump forward to modern times (well the early 20th century) and a lathe chuck with a window to accept mushroom-headed parts comes to be called a "lantern" chuck. See this post...

http://www.homemadetools.net/forum/m...l-screws-26214

for my version of same for machining the ends of screws.

As you surmised, I carried the nomenclature over to this pin vise because it accommodates the handling of mushroom parts.

Nothing sacred about the name; if it looked as if it had grown underground, I would have called it the truffle pin vise. :-)