Show us your bench vice(s)

[Vono]

Tarted up the first of two vices I got last weekend. This turned out nice. The second will be even better.
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Parkinson Handy, very nice, I'm starting to really like those.
No chance of a couple more pics of it is there ?

 

[Viceman]

Parkinson Handy, very nice, I'm starting to really like those.
No chance of a couple more pics of it is there ?

Here's one I finished a couple of weeks ago

and my latest I finished today,a Record No 2 swivel, now back to my shed and hide from the wife

 

[Vono]

Here's one I finished a couple of weeks agoView attachment 289326 and my latest I finished today,a Record No 2 swivel, now back to my shed and hide from the wifeView attachment 289328

Cool, ta for that

 

[dannysheff]

Here's one I finished a couple of weeks agoView attachment 289326 and my latest I finished today,a Record No 2 swivel, now back to my shed and hide from the wifeView attachment 289328

very fine -- are you making new vice jaws for these - they look 'virgin'

 

[jhobson]

Mmmmmm.... Cast Steel

 

[timgunn1962]

That Handy 3b looks nice and the 35 is a proper tool. Welcome to yet another rabbit hole Jack.

 

[Maker]

When I was probably 4 or 5 years old I started playing in my grandad's garage, he had an Record No.1, the old style with the more rounded knob on the front. That's my first vice, though not technically mine.

The first vice I actually owned was a Record wood vice fitted to the bench in the shed when we moved house, that was ten years ago. Shortly after, I got my own Record No.1 because wood vices don't count.

 

[jhobson]

I wasn't bad off for vices before I got these latest two. The Handy has damage on both jaw ledges - so no pounding. Soft jaws.

A small leg vice

Pattern makers vice - Chinese

another quick release record 4", good condition but cast iron

Even small good vices are good to have around...

It was a while before a properly appreciated this watchmakers vice

My welding vice - I should treat it better!

Make a change from the usual record...

And there is a Zyliss vice sneaking into a couple of those pics - still trying to find a use for it.

 

[rosinante]

I like that pattern makers vice , a lot
Chris

 

[Viceman]

very fine -- are you making new vice jaws for these - they look 'virgin

I made new jaws on the Parky, just plain with no serrations made from toolsteel. The No 2 are original jaws with virtually no wear

 

[dannysheff]

I wasn't bad off for vices before I got these latest two. The Handy has damage on both jaw ledges - so no pounding. Soft jaws.


A small leg vice

It was a while before a properly appreciated this watchmakers vice
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Make a change from the usual record...
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And there is a Zyliss vice sneaking into a couple of those pics - still trying to find a use for it.

the Parky is poss my favourite ww vice

re the jeweller's vice -- like it, (however not sure about the pink plastic jaws, looks wise, but I can see their use?) - I have a couple of these - one v small, one about 2in jaws - made in England and you can see them in catalogues of about 1910 but later this became the sought after German/Swiss style (saddle type rear dynamic jaw) for watchmaking up to heavy bench use - wonder where it originated? -- I also have a tiny one trade mark GEM, which I suspect is Chinese (and v well made)

an uncle gave me a Zyliss - never used it -- do folks find them good for some particular use?

 

[Arc Tourist]

I wasn't bad off for vices before .......................................................

It was a while before a properly appreciated this watchmakers vice

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I see you've set it up on a block to attach to a jewelers peg vice, if I'm not mistaken ?

 

[dannysheff]

Your first bench-vice?

- mine was a Fabrex clamp-on like a down-market/simplified Record Imp - as far as I remember a birthday present as a late teen - did an awful lot of work over the years that little thing, but held up well (main problem was the strength of the table clamping and resulting unwanted swivel) - I'd always assumed it was German or French, but in fact they're British (made by ?).

am I allowed to answer my own Q? -- looks like Fabrex was a Leicester maker of equipment for the fabrics industry and must have made some DIY home workshop stuff as a sideline (1950s-70s?) a table circular saw, a hand drill and a couple of vices including 'mine' (model 420?) which one sees quite often, a machine vice and a weird little (6 in?) quick release woodworking vice - which must be pretty rare:

never seen one before - have you? I can't confirm by Fabrex but came up first page of the search and is in the same green as their other stuff

every second manufacturer in England seems to have made a 6in table top - DIY woodvice and a clamp-on - I bet they all lost money on them during this post-war DIY boom (except maybe Record, Woden and Paramo)

a couple of other examples made clamp-ons - "Dronfield" - at least two models (I live near Dronfield and there was the Chapman (later Stanley cheaper line) and I think Acorn works (both planes, drills etc)) maybe one of them made 'em? and "Univice"?

 

[oxoseven]

The only two places it contacts the housing are at each end. Does the screw turn? Does the front jaw slide in the rear jaw housing? What exactly is stuck, now?

Sorry about the delay answering you matt my tablet packed up, I managed to get the main screw out, I have no workshop bench to fix the vice to so l couldn,t get any leverage on the vice handle. I fixed the vice to an old railway sleeper ( on the allotment) that was well bedded in the ground and used a 4 ft.steel pipe to turn the handle, it soon came free. I,ve acquired a record no.4 now in working order, looks like l,m getting the bug. Anyhow thanks for the tips lads.

 

[dannysheff]

I fixed the vice to an old railway sleeper ( on the allotment) that was well bedded in the ground and used a 4 ft.steel pipe to turn the handle, it soon came free. I,ve acquired a record no.4 now in working order, looks like l,m getting the bug.

yep, it's catching, and having an allotment makes the infection more serious, as we have somewhere to put them - I now have a large shed, two outdoor benches and three vice stands (with tarp covers) on my allotment

masks and disinfectant don't seem to help

 

[Dieselman 63]

A Woden 190/8A. I have the 8 which I use daily. This is a six inch monster which weighs 90lbs!

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

New to me.
A small jewellers anvil vice.

 

[magnet]

Had this years great multi angle adjustment and solid lock up. No idea what specific trade it was used in but a handy tool non the less.

 

[MattF]

I predict a post from @CwazyWabbit in the near future.

 

[CwazyWabbit]

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Had this years great multi angle adjustment and solid lock up. No idea what specific trade it was used in but a handy tool non the less.

It's a Wadkin universal tool and cutter vice It's the middle style of three that I know they produced, there is one the same as yours in one of the workshops at the science museum (not on public display).
They are awesome vices aren't they