Maui
Well-known member
I found the vise pictured below on Craigslist in upstate New York earlier today. The ad had been listed for about three days. The ad didn't describe what type of vise it was, or what it was supposed to be used for. When I called the number the owner said that it was just taking up space in his garage. He had no idea what it was designed to do, and didn't care. He just wanted it gone. Apparently it had been sitting outside in his grandmother's yard underneath a piece of carpeting for a very long time, and he decided to at least take it home and store it inside.
I said that I would stop by after work to take a look at it, knowing it would be about a 40 mile drive to get there. He texted me later on in the day and said that he had just sold it to somebody else. I wrote back and said that that was a shame - it would have been nice to have. About half an hour later he called me up and said that the other guy who he had decided to sell it to was asking him all sorts of questions that he didn't know the answers to, and he just didn't want to deal with it. He told me that if I would be willing to pay him $150, he would deliver it to my doorstep. I said yes, and shortly after I got home from work he showed up with the vise. And now it's in my garage.
It's an Emmert patternmakers vise. It works well, and is in surprisingly good condition. It looks like the part that is used to angle the vise relative to the bench it sits on is missing, but it probably won't be that difficult to fabricate. Once I get the rust off of it and it's working smoothly again, it should be a great addition to my shop.
I said that I would stop by after work to take a look at it, knowing it would be about a 40 mile drive to get there. He texted me later on in the day and said that he had just sold it to somebody else. I wrote back and said that that was a shame - it would have been nice to have. About half an hour later he called me up and said that the other guy who he had decided to sell it to was asking him all sorts of questions that he didn't know the answers to, and he just didn't want to deal with it. He told me that if I would be willing to pay him $150, he would deliver it to my doorstep. I said yes, and shortly after I got home from work he showed up with the vise. And now it's in my garage.
It's an Emmert patternmakers vise. It works well, and is in surprisingly good condition. It looks like the part that is used to angle the vise relative to the bench it sits on is missing, but it probably won't be that difficult to fabricate. Once I get the rust off of it and it's working smoothly again, it should be a great addition to my shop.
