Show us your vices! (virtous ones, I mean...)

[Tengu]

Vices are a good thing...

Picked up a nice one today at the car boot. It fits on a table, rotates and has a mini anvil on the end.

 

[woof]

I've got a record number 4 that I've had a few years, but just moved into a new house & there's a number 3 on a very good bench in the workshop & a small wood vice as well.

Rob

 

[Two Socks]

I have one a bit like yours. Rotating with a mini-anvil. Mine has to be bolted down rather than clamped though. In the background is a larger vice that belongs to my dad.

 

[Dean]

Here is a little mini anvil vice I found in my grandfathers shed

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[kristophish]

Not my actual vice but exactly the same

 

[Hammock Hamster]

Here is a carving vice I made (though probably not strictly speaking a vice) it uses wooden off cuts and wedges to secure your work piece into the hollow.

That does remind me I still need to make some legs for it!






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[Robson Valley]

Hammock Hamster: I need one of those. Your adze build?
With the virtue of hindsight, what are the dimensions of both the log and the hollow?
I could use a 26-28" hollow length.

 

[Hammock Hamster]

The log is about 4.5ft long and 12-14 inches diameter from memory.
The hollow is around 2.5ft across and about 4-5 inches deep.

Not as versatile as a traditional carpenters vice but really good for holding large stock and bowl blanks, plus I wanted something very traditional.

I didn't use the adze, I cheated a bit with saw and chisel.

 

[Robson Valley]

Thanks. I recognize that as a carver's vise. I've seen one used to carve a pair of wooden shoes! I knew in an instant how I could use it for western red cedar carvings.
Just might have to go for a short drive to a local sawmill or two. Quick bit of work with a power saw = done.

Google 'Guiseppe Penone' to see log carvings. I tried to do a little one, 8" x 48", dang near died of exhaustion. Never finished.

 

[Tengu]

Those are varied and interesting vices there.

 

[demographic]

Don't get me started.
Record 74 Auto vice.

Record No 6, needs a clean up mind.

Not sure what the brass tag and crown are all about though.

Also have a post vice, few Fortis and Ajax vices.

This belongs to my wife, nice little item with smooth jaws.

Then there's woodwork vices, teeny tiny hand vices, can't quite remember how many I have but its over 11, without counting the ones my wife owns.

 

[Tengu]

Thats a good number. Sadly mine, though it seems to be well made, has no name to it.

I got it from my car boot tool seller in exchange for some wood blockplanes.

Im thinking of making it a bag so it doesnt get damaged (or more likley, damage other items) when in transit.

By rights, of course I should have a tool box. But tool organisation can be tricky. I have a model work box, an art box, a bag for my leatherwork tools, and a plastic drawered box for smaller leatherwork pieces. My bushcraft stuff goes in my rucksack. I suppose now I need a box for items that dont go into any catagory.

 

[demographic]

Best not to get me started on toolboxes either...

 

[demographic]

Got a couple on here as well, along with lines of dog holes.
Made up a load of wooden bench dogs a while ago which can be raised at various points.

 

[slowworm]

I was given this Paramo No. 41. It works fine and just needs a good clean.

Can I ask for some advice? Would it be best to clean off the rust and old paint and re-paint or just oil the bare metal?

 

[British Red]

That rust looks surface to me. I would wire brush it off (disassembling if possible), mask off the moving, bearing and holding faces I would give a light spray with blue smoothrite, then oil the threads, grease any bearing surfaces and reassemble.

Demographic, do your vices have a pop up tongue to push the workpiece against the bench dog?

 

[Dave]

Heres mine:

The HMH Spartan:

 

[British Red]

Not used much Dave, there's a big fly on it

 

[Dave]

Not used much Dave, there's a big fly on it

Damned fine vice is that.

 

[Tengu]

Its not Spartan, theres no `L`in greek on it.

My Ancient History A Level was mostly Spartans, so I know my Lacadamonians...