A tool for holding tools to sharpen

[muleman77]

This is something a few of you may have seen. Theres not many around though, so maybe you'll find it interesting.

It holds McCleods nicely too, but I didn't have one close. They go up in the slotted pipe.

Comes in handy from time to time

 

[phantomknives]

hey thats pretty neat

 

[FortyTwoBlades]

I want one.

 

[Hacked]

Now that's neat, I just use a rope through a hole in my work bench.

 

[Hickory n steel]

Pretty cool.

 

[Miller '72]

This is something a few of you may have seen. Theres not many around though, so maybe you'll find it interesting.

It holds McCleods nicely too, but I didn't have one close. They go up in the slotted pipe.

Comes in handy from time to time

Now that is definetly something to keep an eye out for.
Thanks Mulemann77

 

[jblyttle]

I don't need one, I have a few effective ways that work for me, but holy crap I want one.

 

[Square_peg]

Never seen one. It's super cool and I want it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I just work on a portable Black & Decker Workmate bench with a drop-in vise. It works pretty good. I also keep some squeeze clamps handy for the odd tool that can't find a place in the vise.

 

[Mossyhorn]

That is one very usefull tool. Thanks for sharing.

 

[jblyttle]

Never seen one. It's super cool and I want it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I just work on a portable Black & Decker Workmate bench with a drop-in vise. It works pretty good. I also keep some squeeze clamps handy for the odd tool that can't find a place in the vise.

Ah, the old clamp the vise to the table trick. I have one "permanently" set up like that. I also like the multiple workstations. You need some minions.

 

[Square_peg]

Ah, the old clamp the vise to the table trick. I have one "permanently" set up like that. I also like the multiple workstations. You need some minions.

Absolutely!

I've since bolted that vise permanently to a board as a drop-in for the Workmate. That particular Workmate was made a gift to my son-in-law after I found one of the old aluminum h-frame models to replace it. The Workmate on the far right (partially out of the picture) was another one of mine with a vise bolted to a board for quick drop-in. I sold that setup, Workmate and vise to a fellow trailworker who also wanted a portable vise.

Workmate collectors and enthusiasts have created all sorts of drop-in utility tools for the workmate. Large work tables, vises and shaping tables are the most common, but guys have come up with all kinds of crazy, handy specific drop-ins for their own needs. And a sandbag on the stool makes the whole thing more sturdy when needed.

Super versatile tool, those old Workmates. Too bad the new ones are so whimpy. If you see and old one at a yard sale, grab it!

 

[Square_peg]

Here's my current setup. I use this out in the yard for the 'dirty work' before bringing it into my patio shop post vise for the cleaner work.

 

[phantomknives]

Here's my current setup. I use this out in the yard for the 'dirty work' before bringing it into my patio shop post vise for the cleaner work.

that'd be an upgrade

 

[Miller '72]

that'd be an upgrade

That is one mean looking vise no matter how you make it work

Here's my current setup. I use this out in the yard for the 'dirty work' before bringing it into my patio shop post vise for the cleaner work.

Love the workmate!
My dad and I have battled for years, mayne 2 decades now, over where HIS workmate table is and why he can't find it...

He ultimately threw in the towel and bought a new one a couple years back.
What? I learned that game from him

 

[300Six]

Super versatile tool, those old Workmates. Too bad the new ones are so wimpy. If you see an older one at a yard sale, grab it!

I fully agree. I bought a B & D Workmate 200 new in 1985 but that particular one isn't as good some of the half dozen 'tossed' ones I've scavenged from the roadside on garbage day over the past few decades. Early tops were made of somewhat water resistant plywood but B & D switched over to thin-veneered particle board by the 1980s. Leave one of these outside and they're 'done' in short order. But for us opportunists a ruined top is no biggie to replace with real (ideally 7/8" or so thick) wood. Drilling the metric sized holes for the 'dogs' is the worst of it. My first Workmate rebuild incorporated 3/4" White Oak boards (wonderfully rot and weather resistant) and that one was out in the open for over 20 years before the decking began to let go.

 

[Agent_H]

Here's my current setup. I use this out in the yard for the 'dirty work' before bringing it into my patio shop post vise for the cleaner work.

I seem to like any "post" with that vise in it

 

[Square_peg]

I seem to like any "post" with that vise in it

It's a 6 inch, 85 pounds. Funny thing is I have a 6-1/4" 145 pound vise laying around waiting to take its place and I just haven't been motivated. The 85 pounder does whatever I've needed so far.

 

[GWashington1732]

I've been clamping mine in my bike repair stand lately.

 

[Ernest DuBois]

For most of those applications I've got it worked out and am doing fine even without this very cool apparatus but the adze holding function seems, from the photo, a real nice thing. This would resolve a terminal annoyance.

(Now I'm going to pull a trick I picked up from Agent H for simplifying the reference.)

When it needs some steadying - not that it might, I don't know - a simple wedge or two in there would do that trick.

 

[Uncle Timbo]

That thing there's, slicker than owl poop.
Just proves our forefathers didn't need all these fancy dodads we have. (Not that someone has something fancier than this)