Recent content by hartkem

Yes it does.

cleaned the vise up with a wire wheel and lubricated the screw. Applied boiled lend seed oil for a coating and mounted to the other side of my bench. Then decided to make some soft jaws from copper. I soldered the edges and they stay on great.

Wasn’t aware that it was considered a woodworkers vise. Guess that makes sense with the jaws being smooth. I was attracted to the ***********. I don’t do much woodworking and my original plan was to fabricate a set of copper soft jaws. I already have a reed 204 mounted to the front left side of...

Thanks so much for the ID. I’ll try to get you that data soon.

Like many of you I like old quality made vises. I recently picked up what looks like a very old vise but am having trouble identifying it. On the side it says II & B co. or maybe 11 and B co. 4 1/2". I've searched for both and came up with H & B co but none of the pictures I saw looked like...