CoconutPete
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WHOOPS! I Put this in the gallery section - can someone move it to free parking???
Love reading about all the restoration projects about old vises.
I was just starting to look for one when it hit me like a ton of bricks. "Grandpa's vise!"
My grandpa is the reason I am the way I am, I used to looove going to spend weekends with them - my grandma would have to drag us out of his workshop, we just couldn't be torn away from tearing apart that old washing machine we had just scored.
When my grandpa passed away in 1999 I hopped on a plane back to Denmark 5 hours later. After sitting in his workshop and crying like a baby for a few hours we went back to planning. Decided my grandma would stay in the house.
When she passed in 2004 we obviously had to break up the house ... this meant breaking up the workshop. Got rid of a lot of stuff, but I was amazed that every family member had waited for me before they even went into his workshop... started crying like a baby again! What the hell. I have a lot of his tools at my house in Connecticut now, I still use a lot of them too.
I just remembered the other day, I brought his vise over to my aunts place and put it in her basement. I was chatting with my parents the other day, they have it at theit place now (still in Denmark).
I really want to bring this thing home, but HOW? It's ... well ... a vise! It's heavy. The weight is obviously going to kill me. I could put one suitcase into another and just have the vise in it on the way home ...... that and a lot of cardboard...... or ship it? Do I even want to know how much this will cost?
This is the only place I can ask this question and not be told "you're nuts, buy a new one"........ I don't want a new one. I want grandpa's vise. I have been using this thing since I was 8 yrs old and I'm 33 now. It would be so totally awesome to have this thing on my workbench.
Love reading about all the restoration projects about old vises.
I was just starting to look for one when it hit me like a ton of bricks. "Grandpa's vise!"
My grandpa is the reason I am the way I am, I used to looove going to spend weekends with them - my grandma would have to drag us out of his workshop, we just couldn't be torn away from tearing apart that old washing machine we had just scored.
When my grandpa passed away in 1999 I hopped on a plane back to Denmark 5 hours later. After sitting in his workshop and crying like a baby for a few hours we went back to planning. Decided my grandma would stay in the house.
When she passed in 2004 we obviously had to break up the house ... this meant breaking up the workshop. Got rid of a lot of stuff, but I was amazed that every family member had waited for me before they even went into his workshop... started crying like a baby again! What the hell. I have a lot of his tools at my house in Connecticut now, I still use a lot of them too.
I just remembered the other day, I brought his vise over to my aunts place and put it in her basement. I was chatting with my parents the other day, they have it at theit place now (still in Denmark).
I really want to bring this thing home, but HOW? It's ... well ... a vise! It's heavy. The weight is obviously going to kill me. I could put one suitcase into another and just have the vise in it on the way home ...... that and a lot of cardboard...... or ship it? Do I even want to know how much this will cost?
This is the only place I can ask this question and not be told "you're nuts, buy a new one"........ I don't want a new one. I want grandpa's vise. I have been using this thing since I was 8 yrs old and I'm 33 now. It would be so totally awesome to have this thing on my workbench.
