The VISES of Garage Journal

[seber]

There's a pretty odd one on Fleabay right now.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Heavy-Antiq...792059?hash=item3f6401fefb:g:CpMAAOSw6btXRZYU
Kind of looks like it might have been made for a specific purpose.

 

[exmaxima1]

There's a pretty odd one on Fleabay right now.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Heavy-Antiq...792059?hash=item3f6401fefb:g:CpMAAOSw6btXRZYU
Kind of looks like it might have been made for a specific purpose.

Specifically for emptying your wallet.....$450

 

[daturbosix]

can anyone tell me what era this charles parker 806 is from?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/131883093311?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649

 

[G-ManBart]

can anyone tell me what era this charles parker 806 is from?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/131883093311?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649

Most likely 1930s, but that price is way high.

Edit to add: I should have said late 30s or newer.

 

[daturbosix]

Most likely 1930s, but that price is way high.

seems on par with others that have sold recently..
http://www.ebay.com/itm/CHARLES-PAR...659958?hash=item4d3cddf136:g:yXYAAOSwk1JWcDOJ

 

[Fordriver6]

Most likely 1930s, but that price is way high.

can anyone tell me what era this charles parker 806 is from?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/131883093311?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649

I'm not sure when Parker switched from the big ball nose (where the handle goes thru) to the cylinder style, but I do know that the cylinder ones were the later ones. I have a 973 1/2 that has the cylinder nose and I'm guessing that mine is from the late 1940's or the 1950's.

Dayid's website is guessing that the 806 began production in 1939, which would put it in the same era as my 973 1/2.

http://scuttle.dayid.org/wiki/index.php/Charles_Parker_Vise

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[G-ManBart]

seems on par with others that have sold recently..
http://www.ebay.com/itm/CHARLES-PAR...659958?hash=item4d3cddf136:g:yXYAAOSwk1JWcDOJ

Interesting. Sometimes there seems to be no rhyme or reason to Ebay prices. There's a newer 6" Parker about 40min from me and the seller has had no action on it at $200 and just dropped the price to $100.

 

[oldldh]

Erroneously listed as a "Early Production Starrett Small Machinist Bench Vice W/ Rotating Head"...

Tis a Prentiss, it is...

A two inch Prentiss...

Which is a "Double Rotating B@#tard", for those of you who need to go both ways...

www.ebay.com/itm/EARLY-PRODUCTION-S...TATING-HEAD-/302018501320?hash=item4651b49ac8

As I post this, it has one bid, at $19.99...It is located in Royalston, MA, and has a freight charge of $17.03...

Looks pretty good...

 

[IHmachinery]

I put a few pics and the story of my drill here:

http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showpost.php?p=5856761&postcount=1357



A 48" Barnes would be quite the drill!!! My Mechanics Machine Company Drill was made in Rockford at about the same time as the Barnes camelbacks. All these early Rockford area drills bear similarities. My table is only about 32" and the quill is MT 5. I've seen adds for 42" and 46" camelbacks but pics are pretty rare. I'd love to see pics of a 48" camelback. Ed.

That is a beautiful restoration and an awesome piece of machinery!


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[G-ManBart]

Erroneously listed as a "Early Production Starrett Small Machinist Bench Vice W/ Rotating Head"...

Tis a Prentiss, it is...

A two inch Prentiss...

Which is a "Double Rotating B@#tard", for those of you who need to go both ways...

www.ebay.com/itm/EARLY-PRODUCTION-S...TATING-HEAD-/302018501320?hash=item4651b49ac8

As I post this, it has one bid, at $19.99...It is located in Royalston, MA, and has a freight charge of $17.03...

Looks pretty good...

It does look pretty good...those little Pretiss swivel jaws are cute. At least he updated the listing with the correct manufacturer and dropped the shipping to $9.38

 

[rusty65]

Picked up another 4in swivel jaw this week and got this one for $60 bucks also had to drive 2 hours each way but well worth it. It's a model no 19 1/2 Prentiss swivel jaw. I didn't have to do any work to free the swivel jaw pin it literally just pulled out and the jaw wasn't froze up all I had to do was clean up the old grease under it and it's a one finger swiveler now. I don't feel like taking new pictures so hopefully the ones from eBay are good enough lol.





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[McBrownie]

Erroneously listed as a "Early Production Starrett Small Machinist Bench Vice W/ Rotating Head"...

Tis a Prentiss, it is...

A two inch Prentiss...

Which is a "Double Rotating B@#tard", for those of you who need to go both ways...

www.ebay.com/itm/EARLY-PRODUCTION-S...TATING-HEAD-/302018501320?hash=item4651b49ac8

As I post this, it has one bid, at $19.99...It is located in Royalston, MA, and has a freight charge of $17.03...

Looks pretty good...

That is a cool one. I bumped it up a bit just for fun. It's at $35 now.

 

[McBrownie]

Wood vises don't get much love here and I've spent the last two months of weekends building a new workbench with hand tools. Mostly hand planes, hand saws, and chisels. I wimped out and used a radial arm saw to rough out a couple of dados. All wood is construction-grade 2 by's from Lowes and found some with interesting staining. Used a Danish oil for the finish. Google "Paul Sellers Bench" for more info. All I will say is that it's a workout and kind of fun/rewarding to do. Enter at your own risk.

On to the vise. A Desmond Stephan W-7-C that was a rusty mess, but looked like it had the original handle. Looks just like some Columbians that I have seen. May upgrade to a 10" later.

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[joe.striper]

Anyone know what this is???

 

[Al Bundy]

Your left hand?

 

[joe.striper]

Your left hand?

Ha, ha, ha...a perfect Hal Bundy answer....

 

[va.grouseman]

Very clean vise Rusty.---A super buy on your part.---Congrats.

 

[GETRIDAONE]

McBrownie,. Nice bench for woodworking. I just finished one so I can have more space to pile more **** on top of.

Joe, A leveling gauge for a machine table ??

 

[autopts]

Wood vises don't get much love here and I've spent the last two months of weekends building a new workbench with hand tools. Mostly hand planes, hand saws, and chisels. I wimped out and used a radial arm saw to rough out a couple of dados. All wood is construction-grade 2 by's from Lowes and found some with interesting staining. Used a Danish oil for the finish. Google "Paul Sellers Bench" for more info. All I will say is that it's a workout and kind of fun/rewarding to do. Enter at your own risk.

On to the vise. A Desmond Stephan W-7-C that was a rusty mess, but looked like it had the original handle. Looks just like some Columbians that I have seen. May upgrade to a 10" later.

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That bench is kick *** man!!

 

[McBrownie]

That bench is kick *** man!!

Thanks Nick.

Get, I am going to try really hard not to pile **** on top of this one.

 

[KMScott]

Awesome job Mcbrownie. I never use a bench vise to hold all my vises I restore, I use my Record woodworking vise with wood jaws to hold vise parts. I remember when my bench was new. Nice job.

 

[McBrownie]

Awesome job Mcbrownie. I never use a bench vise to hold all my vises I restore, I use my Record woodworking vise with wood jaws to hold vise parts. I remember when my bench was new. Nice job.

Thanks Kevin. I'm thinking about mounting my Wilton 9300 on a block that can be put in the wood vise when I need it. I'll keep a Parker on my beater bench for, well, beating on.

 

[scooternut]

MCBROWNIE

No love for your woodworking vise is right, but WOW on them matching vintage Workmate tables! Those are sharp and eye catching. Certain that all will serve you well.

 

[McBrownie]

MCBROWNIE

No love for your woodworking vise is right, but WOW on them matching vintage Workmate tables! Those are sharp and eye catching. Certain that all will serve you well.

Agree on the Workmates. Made building this bench much easier. Head over to the Workmate thread and you'll see more of them. The one in the foreground was actually made in Ireland and, don't hate me, was only $20.

 

[scooternut]

Awesome job, I've got a few in that workmate thread, but only 1 aluminum beam and none in blue. I need 1 more aluminum beam to restore that matches, then I'll call it quits... I swear!


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[IHmachinery]

Wood vises don't get much love here and I've spent the last two months of weekends building a new workbench with hand tools. Mostly hand planes, hand saws, and chisels. I wimped out and used a radial arm saw to rough out a couple of dados. All wood is construction-grade 2 by's from Lowes and found some with interesting staining. Used a Danish oil for the finish. Google "Paul Sellers Bench" for more info. All I will say is that it's a workout and kind of fun/rewarding to do. Enter at your own risk.

On to the vise. A Desmond Stephan W-7-C that was a rusty mess, but looked like it had the original handle. Looks just like some Columbians that I have seen. May upgrade to a 10" later.

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Looks very nice!


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[oldldh]

McBrownie ---

That workbench "Ain't Too Shabby..."

YA DUN GUD, BUBBA!!!

I don't think $35.00 is going to get that 2" Prentiss...

It'll be closer to two bills, me thinks...

 

[daturbosix]

Interesting. Sometimes there seems to be no rhyme or reason to Ebay prices. There's a newer 6" Parker about 40min from me and the seller has had no action on it at $200 and just dropped the price to $100.

id totally go grab that if i were you!

 

[j p smith]

Anyone know what this is???

My first thought was a guide for sharpening a blade out of a plane but I am not sure

 

[demoman]

Here is the Reed 109 that came from Pennsylvania. It is in great shape except the tail has a crack. It is the 4 bolt hold down version and my other 109 is a three bolt. My boys posed for a pic on the vise. It really does not do it justice unless you see it in person so I put a 3" Wilton I had close on the slide for comparison. It is interesting to not it does not have the chin piece that hangs don below the vise that goes against the bench. The book I have shows that with this version There is a lot of the original black paint still on the vise. The guy I got it from said he took it out of the basement of a house and someone gave it to him! Hope you enjoy.

 

[scooternut]

DEMOMAN

That thing is amazing! Wishing I would've gone after it harder here in my backyard. Or better yet, really wish I could have cleaned out that basement!!

Enjoy. FYI, my 4 bolt 106 has the "chin piece" that you referred to, if that matters.

 

[Outlawmws]

Anyone know what this is???

More pics? Top and bottom in particular? (Looks like it is adjustable for angle two directions? The block may be a guide? what width is that block?)

 

[Outlawmws]

McBrownie, the bench is Gorgeous! I'd Love to have time (and Space) to do more work like that...

 

[McBrownie]

McBrownie, the bench is Gorgeous! I'd Love to have time (and Space) to do more work like that...

Thanks Outlaw. That's a "summertime only" project for me as I needed half of the garage to do it.

 

[Mark in Indiana]

All,
I won a clamp on vise at an estate auction for 23$ last night. It's the first clamp on vise that I've bought that has the spindle covered by the slide. There are no markings on it.
It has 3" jaws. In the images below, it's laying on a 8 1/2" x 11" sheet of paper.

Can anyone tell me who made it? How old it is? Other history & fun facts?

Thanks in advance.

Ps. I won a set of pipe jaws for 1$ that fit a 4" Littlestown open spindle vise that I bought last winter.

 

[GETRIDAONE]

It is a Luther vise from about the late 1920's

 

[Bobioz1]

Looks a lot like my Stanley clamp on.

 

[exmaxima1]

On to the vise. A Desmond Stephan W-7-C that was a rusty mess, but looked like it had the original handle. Looks just like some Columbians that I have seen. May upgrade to a 10" later.

Thanks Kevin. I'm thinking about mounting my Wilton 9300 on a block that can be put in the wood vise when I need it. I'll keep a Parker on my beater bench for, well, beating on.

McB, it appears that we agree on more than just CM Cap-Start grinders and belt sanders. We both like 10" wood vises and metal utility vises on our benches

 

[Mark in Indiana]

Get,
Thanks for the lead. I Googled Luther Vises and came up with several ads that had pictures of vises identical to mine. Funny how I paid 10 times what that vise cost new...90 years later. I plan to restore and keep it.

 

[KMScott]

McB, it appears that we agree on more than just CM Cap-Start grinders and belt sanders. We both like 10" wood vises and metal utility vises on our benches

I like them to. This is my vise bench I made several years ago. The Record wood vise is so heavy duty. Having wood jaws sure saves getting idot marks on your vises, having the vise at the same level as your workbench is nice to. This bench I made is from a bowling alley that I picked up from the YMCA of the Rockies in Estes Park. Holds Parker jaws for final finishing great. All of my restores were held by my Record vise for cleaning and any hand work.