Recent content by Josh C

Morning Vise folks. Wanted to let you all about something I have going on and see if anyone wants to get in on the action. The “Cheap Freight run of Fall 2020” is something that has started as a way to get some vise’s to a buyer in New Mexico from Virginia. Am making a trip up to New England...

Smitty, gotta say the vise is absolutely jaw dropping, just outstanding without question. Thrilled that it ended up in the hands of a caretaker who throughly appreciates it and it’s rarity. Couldn’t ask for a better foster home when you consider all the playmates it has now!! Nice that worked...

Just received some pictures from a good buddy who graces these pages occasionally and am feeling that I must show off his work and sing praises as finding someone who knows how to accomplish this kind of makeover isn’t common, and the fact that he is a die hard Vise nut just makes bringing the...

Evening all. Just back from a road trip to acquire some decent Reed’s and fulfill a desire for a 8” Vise for a buddy. While getting the behemoth and it’s smaller hefty 6” brother I grabbed another seven that were available and within my grasp price wise. Two of them I have some questions about...

VA-Roanoke and Mt. Airy were two very likely guesses, but I actually went to Bassett which isn’t far from Martinsville and only an hour and ten minutes from Dugspur. Day before I had gone to Glen Lyn, a little town just over the West Virginia/Virginia boarder to pick up some items. Really...

Hey folks, stumbled on a vise transport tip yesterday and figured I would share with you all and maybe someone will get something out of it. Had to go meet a potential customer with a vise and at the last minute based on a comment from our phone conversation I decided to throw several others in...

Hey there folks. With my newfound time in the shop I have been able to get a tiny little fraction of my overflowing mountain of projects, the different inventory items needing some type of attention and the tools/materials used on said projects/items straightened up. Although I have intentions...

Ryan, that Record 00 is a really neat little vise. Would love to snag one someday but I doubt that they are very common in the US. Thanks for sharing. Josh

VA- Thanks for sharing your swivel pin making examples and experience. As always any time I see the octagonal picnic table some sweet vise’s are getting displayed and you did not disappoint Clean Prentiss pair and a seldom seen Rock swivel ���� Dan- Nice cleanup on...

Smitty- as several already said, nice work on making that swivel pin. I myself have never had the pleasure of having any lathes or mills at my disposal and your methods resonate with my outlook of using what’s available to reach the same (similar) goal. Yeah not as exact, but will work just fine...

Dan8906 - Those swivel base bolts can be tough if rusted in and no proper size socket to fit it. I am not in possession of the correct one myself ever I don’t believe, and have taken at least 10 of those out. I have a scrap metal supply that has always yielded a solution so far which is a chunk...

Just saw this posted in a FB vise group I am a member of and I immediately thought that It was my civic duty to share over here for those who don’t do FB but do share An addiction for quality vintage vises. Enjoy 😂

Hit the wall-I am not up on the early Wilton’s so what’s the size of a #6? Do like the older lettering they used. Nice score Zach!! Josh Floyd612- nice to see the vise inside and actually working again. Hadn’t realized that I had been drooling when I looked at it. I do that a lot and have to...

Hey thanks Smitty for your info. Was wishing I had a direct line to the bat cave when I went to post 😁. Yeah that just a little short of 250. But hey, who knows how much a pair of welded on pipes adds 😆

Ww7573- is the vise yours? If so is what Smitty had to say about the pipes being welded on infact true? Josh