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that's a dead cool vice. I am jealous !
and that's not really my workshop. Faber's Cycles, San Jose CA from long long ago.
Mark Petry
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and that's not really my workshop. Faber's Cycles, San Jose CA from long long ago.
Mark Petry
Bainbridge Island, WA
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@martl , I have never seen a bench vice like this one before and I'm a machinist . Is there a jib for the dovetail ?



they are super common over here in DE, i dont think i ever saw another brand than this in any professional toolmakers or apprentice workshop, i did all my filing training on these at diferent companies. it always was Leinen or Heuer (which are forged, not cast and therefore more popular among bllacksmiths)
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Vice (with a 'c') is immoral or wicked behavior.
A vise (with an 's') is a metal tool with movable jaws.
They are pronounced the same but spelled differently.
I was using google alerts to find a good deal on craigslist for a bench vise. I didn't get any hits until I deliberately spelled my keyword wrong, because sellers tend to spell it wrong.
A vise (with an 's') is a metal tool with movable jaws.
They are pronounced the same but spelled differently.
I was using google alerts to find a good deal on craigslist for a bench vise. I didn't get any hits until I deliberately spelled my keyword wrong, because sellers tend to spell it wrong.
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Wikipedia has it that US spelling is "vise," and British spelling is "vice."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vise
Ah, English language is fun.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vise
Ah, English language is fun.

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Just swept it up while between projects, so it's now or never. (Note broom in right corner.)
Bench started out as 1 x 4 stringers on 2 x 4 posts with a top of 1/2" plywood. Over the years, the posts have been doubled, or at least reinforced with 2 x 2s, and the front stringer has been backed up through the middle, where the hammering happens, with 2 x 4. All posts screwed into the concrete floor with angles and the back and side stringers screwed into the wall studs. Open space allows for sitting at it on a bar stool for, e.g., wheel building, but I find that I always stand so will probably brace it in soon. There is a Harbour-Freight-quality vise screwed into the reinforced front stringer over the second post out from the far wall, even though it has been blurred or fogged out in the photo.

There are a large number of "legacy" storage containers accumulated over our time together that spread out beyond the photo, mostly filled with bike supplies. Mrs. C. has the other two-thirds of the basement for her passions.
The biggest improvement I made last winter was to build the two drawers where there were previously two open shelves. The benefit from better use of storage space was amazing. All kinds of awkward tools like scroll saw, drills, specialty handsaws and mitre box, propane torch, hammers and mallets, go into these drawers vertically where they're easy to find. And there's room for storage of consumable parts like chains, cables, etc. Drawers rock.
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@BFisher , must have been a throw back to my formula Atlantic days .
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Here's mine. It wouldn't be proper to straighten it up before taking pics...



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@camjr, for a second, I thought that was my workbench. Except that mine is much messier.
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Version 1. I expect to rearrange in the near future. Only those items on the floor

P1000599 by [url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/112094846@N08/]on Flickr

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Neighborhood amused?
Time to reconfigure my shop areas.
This means that stuff has to come out.
Neighbors will take notice...
This means that stuff has to come out.
Neighbors will take notice...
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Wikipedia has it that US spelling is "vise," and British spelling is "vice."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vise
Ah, English language is fun.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vise
Ah, English language is fun.

Makes me wonder how the English call a bad habit.
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I like vises. These pictures of various vises interests me. I've got a number of vises.
Such as,

Wilton 5 inch machinist's vise

An old Parker, fitted with copper jaws to protect softer items.

A Wilton sheet metal worker's vise, which flips 90 degrees.

A Columbian woodworking vise with oak jaws. (with a Palmgren X-Y table sitting next to it)

And a Palmgren drill press table vise. Have a few of these in various sizes and configurations.
Such as,

Wilton 5 inch machinist's vise

An old Parker, fitted with copper jaws to protect softer items.

A Wilton sheet metal worker's vise, which flips 90 degrees.

A Columbian woodworking vise with oak jaws. (with a Palmgren X-Y table sitting next to it)

And a Palmgren drill press table vise. Have a few of these in various sizes and configurations.
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Problem with flat surfaces...

You could park a car/Jeep on these!

I left this longer for my bench mount stand or the /a vice.
Gotta a call from an old customer about a couple of bikes...picked them up...adult bike is going to the g’daughter’s fiancé and I traded the children’s bike for a set of army table legs...found 3-8’x10”x2” pressure treated boards out back annnnnnd....yah dah!