Vise type?

[zdorsch]

I picked this leg vise up yesterday. It seems like a mix between a metal and woodworking vise. When looking at woodworking vises similar to this style they generally have a pin board instead of a metal pivot point. I read that wagon wheels may have used a similar type of vise but a google search didn’t show anything like this vise.

Any ideas what it may have been originally used for?

I plan to use this on hand tool woodworking bench I’m building. I’ll more than likely change out the jaws and try to develop a way to switch back and forth between wood and metal jaws.

 

[gimpyrobb]

Looks like someone's weekend project to me. If it works as intended, should be a nice unique vise!

 

[Oregon rock crusher]

If your dogs approve I say go ahead and use it Zdorsch. I picked one up a few years ago and found Roubo or modified Roubo was a good search term for finding similar vises. I found mine on a rough old bench and it appeared to have been used in a farm shop setting for everything that needed held for repair. Wood, metal, whatever. The style is still common on woodworking benches and quite useful. Ed.

 

[zdorsch]

If your dogs approve I say go ahead and use it Zdorsch.

Yes, the garage boss’s approved. Plan is to clean it up a little bit and replicate one of the guides for the pegboards and put it to use. I’ll definitely look up the Ruobo benches!