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Wow…That’s a very rare vise and it looks like it’s relatively good condition. I’ve only seen a handful of these and they’re usually beat up. This scan is from 1914

Nice find on the old school C3 and it looks like it’s in great shape. These really had a classic design, it’s a shame they stopped making them.

I found a huge Columbian 608 last week and it really put a smile on my face. The vise has 8” jaws and it’s in great condition. There’s not a hammer mark on it and the jaws look like they’ve barely been used. It’s clearly spent some time in the great outdoors but I can make that go away with...

Wow, thanks for all of the info, I’ll definitely be reading up on it in the morning.

It’s quite possible that this was in the food service industry There’s a large no.17 stamped on the keyway which tells me it was part of a production run. I think they would have ground the Wilton logo off if it was for a more sensitive type of clean room.

It’s really an interesting vise, I believe it was chromed at the factory.

Happy 4th of July to my fellow collectors at Garage Journal.

I’ve only seen a handful of stanley vises with removable jaws. Stanley made subtle design changes over the years and I can tell that all of the removable jaws examples were made in the very late 30’s to early 40’s. Stanley basically sold two styles of vises in the early years. Simple cast iron...

I’m a big fan of these little vises and i have quite a few of them some dating back to the early Jersey Vise days. Here’s a catalog from 1941 showing that these were still in production at the time but there’s no mention of replaceable jaws. Like Rick I have yet to see an ad or catalog page...

Nice find. It’s definitely a Stanley Sweetheart, I should have a stamp on the back. I believe yours was made in the very early 40’s before the war broke out. You rarely see the replaceable jaw models and I was lucky enough to find two of them. Once we entered WWII Stanley shifted production and...

Outlaw The toddlers seem a bit harder to find these days, I think they made way more babies. Ranger I was running out of space and up seemed like the logical direction. I searched Home Depot looking fittings to raise the shelves higher and 1” gas pipe was the perfect solution. Jayman Thanks, I...

Ken yeah I’ve been working really hard the last couple of years to find these at reasonable prices and that’s no easy task these days. Patrick Thanks, I really enjoy collecting these.

I took some updated photos of my Wilton baby bullet vise collection and thought I’d share.

I’m happy to hear that you got the old pin out, some of them can be a real bear. Here are the plunger dimensions for a #22, these were peened on at the factory. I’ll find the pin dimensions next.

I’ll send them to you, I have drawings and pics.

I’ve mapped them out before and have drawings and pics. I’ll dig them out and send them to you.

That Prentiss is in great condition and it’s just over 100 years old. A new pin and plunger top can always be fabricated. I have the dimensions if you need them.

You’re a lucky man indeed to have two Prentiss 22’s. The red one is quite a bit older than the gray one. I would say the red one is from the early teens.

I hear what you are saying VA, they literally broke the molds after this last generation of Starrett vises were produced. This last gen was some of the finest American vises ever made. Unfortunately few makers today can hold a candle to their quality.

It’s always a good day when I get to load a Starrett vise into the truck but having it be a Coachmakers model is icing on the cake. This 424-1/2 weighs in at 100 lbs and it doesn’t have a mark on it. The slide edges are really crisp and the jaws are like new. This one is gonna clean up real...