MadModder
The Shop => Tools => Topic started by: Yettiatcpg on February 20, 2012, 06:03:34 PM
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..Here's a couple of mine.
this one a neighbor gave me. the down leg was cracked. I Tig welded it with nickle rod and then made a hammer to face the weld so it looks pitted like the rest of the leg.
(http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f211/yettiatcpg/vice-1.jpg)
if you look close the cut marks are still visible where someone long cut the main beams with a fro. must have been some job to make one of these even partially by hand.
This vice came out of the floor of a barn. nobody knows how long it was buried there. a friend had bought a horse farm and was cleaning out the stalls when this turned up in a bucket load.
the only thing wrong with it is the screw had been broken off. its about 8" long where I think it used to be about 12"
(http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f211/yettiatcpg/vice-2.jpg)
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They are beauties, thanks for showing them.
Must admit, I have a bit of a guilty fascination for old blacksmith vices.
Have two that I actually use in the forge. Neither is in as good condition as yours, both old and battered.
(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7041/6786859826_b963c64a6a_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/one_rod/6786859826/)
smiths_vice_2 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/one_rod/6786859826/) by one_rod (http://www.flickr.com/people/one_rod/), on Flickr
They are getting a bit hard to come by now, so if they do turn up cheap and local on ebay, I tend to snap them up. Just in case.
This is the Vice Boneyard section of my TWCIUOD pile.
(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7209/6786857732_535b0de09b_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/one_rod/6786857732/)
smiths_vice (http://www.flickr.com/photos/one_rod/6786857732/) by one_rod (http://www.flickr.com/people/one_rod/), on Flickr
one_rod.