Help identify bench vise

[IAFatboy96]

My brother picked two of these vises up years ago from a client that didn't want them anymore. He gave one of them to me today. It is cast iron with no markings on it at all. I'm thinking that they are old because the screws that were used to put the wood on the jaw were straight slots. Anyone know anything about them?

 

[autopts]

My brother picked two of these vises up years ago from a client that didn't want them anymore. He gave one of them to me today. It is cast iron with no markings on it at all. I'm thinking that they are old because the screws that were used to put the wood on the jaw were straight slots. Anyone know anything about them?

He gave them to you maybe because they have very little value. They are "under the bench" woodworking vises and I don't see the plate that completes the jaws.

 

[SweetD]

It's incomplete, missing half of the jaw at least...

 

[RivennHewn]

I don't know that they're missing anything.

They just use the edge of the workbench as the static jaw.

 

[IAFatboy96]

I don't think that's the case. He took the vises off of the bench himself. I think it's like the old cabinet makers vise where it uses the bench on the other side. Like the one in this link:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/CABINET-MAK...853?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3a6eecbd2d

 

[turbowoodworker]

Fatboy is correct. the static jaw is the front of the bench on most woodworking vises as they are built into the front of the bench. That vise is complete and ready to be mounted.

 

[Outlawmws]

He gave them to you maybe because they have very little value. They are "under the bench" woodworking vises and I don't see the plate that completes the jaws.

Actually they can command a decent price to a woodworker, and if rare/in demand, even more to a collector.

Fatboy is correct. the static jaw is the front of the bench on most woodworking vises as they are built into the front of the bench. That vise is complete and ready to be mounted.

Add a "sacrificial jaw" wood piece to the bench, and a matching one to the steel/CI dynamic jaw and your good to go.

 

[SweetD]

It's incomplete, missing half of the jaw at least...

Well, I stand corrected, and I still learn something new every day.

Thanks guys!



Dave