They should be decent users for the price.
: I think I'm seeing a pattern here.
Those look nice. Intereting to see things from your corner of the world.
Hey, that is a solid little vise, for a good while that was my first and only vise. Just use it with caution and it will probably serve you well. I like the style of that one over the other model renditions.
As in like estate sales? How the heck does one happen onto 3 6" vises just casually? I can't imagine the average home owner having one in their garage.
Mark---
I take back all the nice things I said about you!!!
6"'ers just laying around up there???
At that price, let me be the first to say---
YOU ****, A LOT!!!!
Thanks for the link - I just hit Doug up for a couple of sets - that's a great deal!
Dave
but managed a couple this week. An old Reed 205 in pretty good shape. 
I didn't do as well as Mark
I didn't do as well as Mark
I didn't do as well as Mark
2.53 OZ
This vise was posted from a CL ad on the board about 3-4 weeks ago. I was like everyone at the time, it to expensive. He reposted it at about 1/2 of original price and I had to have it. The usual quest is the largest vise you can find or dream of. I think this one may the smallest vise with conventional parts that you will ever see. The vise jaws are 5/8" wide, opens 5/8",
length 2", height 1 1/16" base 7/8" and are you ready
I've wondered about that a few times. I'd always assumed it was just some numpty spelling mistake which they discovered too late into initial production and hence went with it, but that site says the choice of using the American spelling was intentional due to the period. I'd guess that can literally only mean one thing, remembering the fact that this was the Victorian period we're referring to. I'll merrily admit that I'm not a historian by any stretch of the imagination, but it's not exactly unknown that the Victorian period was a bit strange.), vises. Some of the Victorian's were, for wont of a better term, adventurous. If it either walked or grew, there was a portion of society which would try either poking it, smoking it else injecting it. Taboo's were something which they really did stretch to the limits during that period. If it's illegal these days or back then, there was likely someone, somewhere, catering to that desire at the time. He would have probably have had enquiries about just about every vice possibly conceivable. Uh oh, she used a 4 letter "C" word about tools!
Personally, I prefer things when they aren't shined up like new. I always do my restores in the manner you've done yours, and leave the evidence of it's age. There's only one time in a tool or machines life that it should ever look like it came out of the factory, IMHO. It's one of those each to their own thing. I sit in the keep it looking old but make sure it's in good functional condition camp. Age, wear and possibly even a bit of abuse all contribute to a pieces character, I always think.
