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I actually rebuilt this 3ft bench for my 85 year old neighbor last year so small ones exist. Sent from my iPhone using Garage Journal

So I started by wanted one for myself that turned into three. So I have three in my shop 4ft one 6.5ft and my main one 8.5ft. The most difficult of all of them took 70 hours worth of work(photo below). I realized I liked them so if my free time between running a business I do this for a few...

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Not beetles just not taken care of which is almost aways the case. It was in better shape then many that I have had so still working on it. Takes about two weeks just to properly stabilize the wood. Sent from my iPhone using Garage Journal

The patina is something I have learned to do over the years. Unfortunately it normally requires the stripping down of 99% of the original surface. These benches are normally so dried out that they soak up quarts of oil(non boiled linseed oil cut with turpentine or danish) the wood is normally...

This is bench #7 I have done. It came in a bit rough tons of dry rot, wood splitting, 100’s of nail holes and ugly as sin gray paint but it’s coming along. Sent from my iPhone using Garage Journal

Yeah I have had 2-6” beforehand. I actually got this guy because of experience not luck. I messaged the guy one hour after he posted figured I was the the first and never heard from him. He deleted the post and a day later I messaged him again. He had it list for $60 but someone told him it was...

I mean it’s not too surprising considering they were still using the Chicago casting when they had been at Schiller Park for a while at that point. Sent from my iPhone using Garage Journal

Asking $1200 OBO for the larger and $400 for the smaller set. Description: • Snap-on Tools Original (1985 Reproduction) Set 101 of tools from 1920 in a Walnut Case/Glass Front. Sales/Dealer Award. Very Rare and Not made anymore. 5 Handles & 10 Sockets-coined the phrase; “Five do the...

Nope. I have plenty of vises and this will probably be sold at some point to a collector as the value of it as a tool pales in its value as being kept as an example of what they looked like fresh from the factory. Sent from my iPhone using Garage Journal

Located north of Chicago Price $1200 This is a pretty cool piece Hay Budden was considered the roll Royce of anvils back in the day. Even to this day Hay Budden is considered the most desirable anvil maker in the world and since they have been out business for a 100 years they aren’t making...

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Made in 1979

Picked this up a couple weeks ago

Thanks for the information. Its the first I have seen on them. I am curious do you know what the first model was?

I have been buying/selling and collecting vises for a year or two now. I came across this No. A Parker vise. I am having a hard time finding out any information on it. I know of the Model No. 0000 I can't seem to find a single example anywhere of the No. A vise anywhere. Any information will be...