Let's talk vises (no not that kind...)

[tiguy7]

I made the brass jaws for the baby bullet. The jaw on the moveable piece has a vertical and horizontal V groove.

 

[Geoff Flato]

That's a useful jaw to have. I'm planning on making similar ones (only copper) for my 3" Morgan. The American scale and swivel jaw rock Island will just get regular copper jaws (I scored some 1/2" copper buss bar recently for basically scrap price)

I know where at least half a dozen baby bullets are, just a matter of getting their owners to sell...

 

[Living The Dream]

anybody with practical hands on experience or feedback on the purpose made knifemaking vises?

I have one I have not unboxed yet.

 

[scott.livesey]

anybody with practical hands on experience or feedback on the purpose made knifemaking vises?

I have one I have not unboxed yet.

a vise holds things still in a desired position. nothing more, nothing less. whether the vise cost $5 at a flea market or $1000 at Vises'r'us. some selling a "Knife Making Vise" is just cleverly marketing vises that are also sold as precision vises, jewelry vises, lapidary vises, .....

 

[Hengelo_77]

here's a knifemakers vice to make yourself

 

[Quickrick]

I have a vanderman no.1 steamfitters vise. Recovered it from a WW2 bombed out building near Dutch Harbor.

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[A.McPherson]

Hey rick we can’t talk about sales in this forum. If you want to sell stuff post it in the sales forum.

 

[Stacy E. Apelt - Bladesmith]

That is a quick way to get banned, Rick. If you paln on sticking around, no selling or sales talk.

 

[daizee]

I live in the cradle of the Industrial Revolution, and my late partner had a Vise Vice... She liked to restore them. All restoration work done by her:

Here's the Cha's Parker I use in the shop every day. Tuned up, but unpainted. Swivel base. #983, I think:

The little fixed-base Rock Island I adore that she fully restored, including making an copper guide post for the screw - temporarily fixed to accommodate guest hand-sanders:

An odd vise from back when Montgomery Ward branded tools:

Her big Cha's Parker 3-1/2 that used to be the primary vise in her shop:

A little guy on a desk upstairs, just because:

Some more awaiting restoration. The metallic blue one is a tilting Wilton, but I don't know if she ever had the base:

How about a Diston saw in a Diston saw vise? She loved painting clamping devices gold:

And you may have noticed the blue Porter Cable pedestal in the background of the red vise picture - why stop at clamping tools when you can go full VFD restoration on a war production 4x54" belt grinder? (yes, the wheels and platen stand-offs are painted gold!):