Recent content by gasgunner

Not that it couldn't be done without it, but the swivel makes it a lot easier and provides uniform clamping on tapered parts. I tinker with a lot of firearms. Barrels, buttstocks, forends, are all tapered to some extent. In the little I have used it so far, it works much easier and handier than...

An update on the little Reed in this post. http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?p=3844022#post3844022 I parkerized the handle. The slide part of the removable jaw is the original finish, just scrubbed with a wire brush. The screw still had most of the original finish and did not...

Roger that. It is hard to see, but the areas you mentioned were all masked off with masking tape before painting. I also bead blasted the face of the jaws and masked them as well as about 1/4" behind the face of the jaw. Thought that might give it the look of having removable jaws even though...

First post here. Recently been needing to upgrade the vise in my little basement shop, but just could not bring myself to spend good $ on the junk at the home improvement store. Found this site and began doing some reading and decided I needed a vise with a swiveling fixed jaw. A few weeks ago I...