Missed an Emmert Vice !
Todd Hughes
>Went to my weekly auction the other day and they had lots of stuff.Outside toward the end I was walking down one of the rows that had already sold and what do i see but my friend Wilber taking a nice and complete Emmert Pattern makers vice off this bench he had just bought! I had sort of seen the bench earlier but never paid much attention to it.Even in the old tool hell I live in they are pretty common and I don't fool with them normaly. Never saw the vice though. Turns out that the guy that bid against Wilber took the front jaw off the vice and then put it under the bench with a blanket over the end of the it and the bench. Supposedly to keep it from getting rained on...Yea OK. In any case Wilber who knew what the vice was saw it and hung around to get it.Other guy ran him up and he had to pay $200 for the vice and bench, not real gloatable but he did sell the bench for $50 which helped.Well at least the vice / bench didn't sell for $10 and it went to a friend who I wouldn't have bid against anyway but I was really shocked that I missed it and have resolved to look better in the future. Did get a big box of Starrett machinist tools for $20 and a unusual 1877 patent Anvil Vice for $40....Todd who really would have liked to stack that Emmert on the other 6 in the corner