Recent content by micahd1997

Definitely a Reed IMHO

Thanks a bunch! Yes, I wanted to keep it quiet until I received them. Thanks, Mongo! Wow, that’s so neat. Were they NOS?

Thanks a bunch, Private. Unfortunately not my place, but thankfully only about 30 minutes from me. The building is an old cotton mill, most of which has been turned into a wedding venue.

Thanks, Oregon! Pretty amazing to have them all together.

It isn’t often that I have the pleasure of introducing something truly “new” to the world of American vises - something that, until very recently, has never seen the light of day in this digital age. Four, double-sided, 1950s vise signs made by the Athol Machine & Foundry Co. These came...

It almost looks like a thru-bench version of Snediker’s rapid transit vise: Thread 'Rapid/Quick Adjust Vintage Vise' https://www.garagejournal.com/forum/threads/rapid-quick-adjust-vintage-vise.481865/

This catalog is long after the company’s “rapid transit” days, but still…

Another one cleaned up - 2.5”, 14lb Prentiss № 511. Needs a brass badge (borrowed from my other one for the pictures) and a new jaw. Please let me know if you have either! I’d be interested in purchasing them

I really thought I had shared more a while back, but digging around, I don’t see them. Here’s some pictures I took a few years ago. By the way, I wasn’t lying. Would love to hear some other vise stories from fellow group members!

What is YOUR craziest vise story. I’d love to hear them. I have a few, but one of my favorites involves this Prentiss № 100 bicycle vise. In December, 2023 I stumbled upon a single photo of this vise here on GJ (as of yet, still the only known Prentiss bicycle vise survivor). However, it and...

As a Prentiss lover, imagine my surprise and delight when, after I posted pictures of a different 1895 Prentiss Vise Company billhead a couple weeks ago, a friend informed me that he owned similar paperwork issued to the EXACT same company in the EXACT same year! But it gets better… As it turns...

My Prentiss № 511 is missing its brass badge. Please send me a message if you have an extra Prentiss brass badge to sell. They made the same size for all sizes of their vises. Thanks!

Received from a friend yesterday - 1920 Yost Catalog № 9

Apologies for the delay, and thanks for the extra pictures! Your vise is a model № 522. Prentiss used the dynamic jaws interchangeably with both the swivel base (№ 522) and the stationary base version (№ 512) of these vises, and so they cast the dynamic jaws with both models present. This style...

Very, very few manufacturers actually stamped their vises with dates, and Prentiss wasn’t one of them. The hand-stamped numbers on Prentiss vises were used internally by Bagley & Sewall (the company that actually manufactured Prentiss’ vises). They likely indicate the batch it was cast in or...