neat vise

11/27/05, 12:50 AM #1

Jack Guzman from Maine
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neat vise

Jack Guzman from Maine

>I just found a neat vise in an antique/consignment shop.It is similar in appearance to the record quick release(52 I think it's called?)It has wooden jaw inserts and bolts to the bench from the underside.Rectangular bench dog in the outer jaw.However It has a lever in front instead of a handle.In one position the front jaw is free to slide and as you turn it to one side the jaw locks down,no cranking.It was pretty cheap but I left it because I have too many vises already.There just is no place to put it.There was no name anywhere on the vise but the casting appeared to be pretty good quality.

Anyone ever seen one of these?---Jack

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Re: neat vise

11/27/05, 4:08 AM #2

Todd Hughes
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Re: neat vise

Todd Hughes

>With out seeing it is a little hard to tell but with the lever it sounds like a Stephens [or maybe Stevens?] vice.I looked for years for one of thier mechanic bench top vices with a simular locking arm till finding a well rusted one laying behind a junk shop....Todd

Re: neat vise

11/27/05, 9:38 PM #3

Greg B�tit, Crown Point NY
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Build a bench around it...

Greg B�tit, Crown Point NY

>Norm Vandal came across a really spiffy leg vise hardware, and used it as the focal point of the now famous shaker bench you see in The Workbench Book. No one else has that scissors-do-thingie. If the vise is slick, it's worth celebrating it with a bench.

Greg -Fraternal Order of YB Emmert Vise Owner Member, and the person who put the first real "ding" on Norm's bench...

neat vise

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