rhm. I couldn't find your thread on the C & V forum. (But I did see one on the entrance fee for C & V membership. Didn' read it but the answer is "your life". Once in C & V, there is nothing else. So those sucked in C & Vers post and post and post. Days old threads go many pages deep!)

Leather for vises. (No, not for vices.) Could you spare a few scraps (say enough for 4 jaws (5 1/5" now but that vise is tired and I'll probably get a 6" if I don't have a machinest make me new jaws) PM me if that's possible/easy.

Sad thing is the vise itself is just fine. A Craftsman made by the premier vise company (in, I think, Wisconsin). But 30 years ago. Sears has moved on and the company no longer supports those vises. Only problem with mine - the jaws have been beaten on! The life of a vise jaw. In my shop, kinda like the life of a pro boxer's jaw in the days before mouth guards.

Also, do you or others know of a best/easiest way to apply the leather to the jaws. I'm pretty creative but I don't have to re-invent everything.

Ben