Est. 1998 — 27 years of woodworking knowledge
Ulmia bench vise, still made ?
Link Van Cleave
>I want a small portable Ulmia bench vise but I can't find one anywhere. I suspect they aren't made anymore.
It was the small little vise that was mounted on a block of wood with a hole in the center to put a clamp through. You could clamp it in your shoulder or tail vise and use it for small parts ect.
Anyone know if anyone still carries these ?
LVC
OT: Request for pics of your bench
john jesseph
>Hi Link, sorry I don't have any idea if they are still available.
However, I recall quite some time ago you were to take delivery of a fine Scandinavian workbench. Do you have the bench now? If so, can we see pictures, please? I am interested in making a couple of new benches in the next year or two, and as I remember, yours was likely to be something worth checking into...
Thanks!!
Couple of possibilities *LINK*
Wiley Horne--Glendora CA
>Link,
You might try an email direct to Dieter Schmid. He will go out of his way to help you. Here is his website, open to the page on vises.
For what it's worth, a vise I really like for small work is made by Record. A link is provided below to Lee Valley, who still has some Made in England ones. I bought one of these several years ago when Home Depot was selling them (!), and it has become a favorite tool. What I like about it is that (a) it is not a toy, is very stout and no play and gets a stout grip, (b) has a huge jaw opening range, (c) swivels on its base. I screwed the base of this little Record into a small board which is maybe 12-15" long (this is Bugbear's vise-on-a-stick method), stuck some PSA sandpower on the other side for positive grip in a larger vise. Use it all the time for carving, and, especially, for spokeshaving small pieces of wood--gets the work away from the bench for more hand relief.
Wiley...............very fond of the old Record company and its workforce, who were injured by the sale of their company.
Record vise, swivel base
Re: Ulmia bench vise, still made ?
Matt Prusik
>Link:
I have read you post in at least two locations and can only offer this advice.
In German, that vise is known as a Hilfspannstock. Essentially this translates into "helper vise". Once in a while on the German Ebay pages you can find one.
I used to buy several things on Ebay from Europe before the current Adminsitration's monetary policies pushed the exhange rate to US$1.00 = Euro 1.35 or so. Now it is just too expensive especially when you consider the shipping from Europe to the US has also incresed by about 50% from the Euro's introduction at about 0.80 Euros to the US Dollar.
Moreover, buying in Canada is not the deal that it used to be for US customers. Now the price differential is US$ 1.00 = CDN$ 0.85
But like anyhting else, if you want it, you will pay, right ;-)))
Best wishes and good luck.
Matt Prusik
Re: OT: Request for pics of your bench
Link Van Cleave
>I will take some pictures and post.
Link
Thanks!!
john jesseph
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Re: Ulmia bench vise, still made ?
Todd Stock
>A traditional shoulder/tail bench can take a handscrew in either vise for holding small stuff. Just the thing for work too short for the dogs to hold.
If you absolutely need the work aligned with the short axis of the bench, relieve the jaws on a larger size of handscrew to get two parallel sides for the first five inches or so.
They were let down by previous management...
Mark Harrison -- in Sydney, Australia
>As I understand the situation, it was a lack of investment in plant and tooling over many years that made the result inevitable.
What's the bet the executive team were well paid for keeping costs down over the years?