Show us your bench vice(s)

[CwazyWabbit]

I was chatting with someone today who has over 700 axes ......

 

[Barking Mat]

I am getting quite into my axes and pick-axes, garden tools and hammers, lump hammers and sledge hammers. Always useful.

 

[CwazyWabbit]

I have a fair few hammers and axes .... but nowhere near as many as I need

 

[CLD]

I bought my father a Gransfors Bruks Small Forest Axe for fathers day a few years ago.
He used to be in the fire brigade and would have carried his own on many call outs.
He was quite touched with receiving it.

 

[penfold]

I think Mathieson's were, or became, an engineering supply house, iirc. Maybe this was made by them early on, or for them, later.
Here's some info, but not much on the later years, where they rang a bell with me...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Mathieson_&_Sons

I'm guessing it was made by them, fairly early on. Going by the styling and such, and just general gut feeling, I'm guessing this may have been early 1900's or thereabouts. No way to know for definite unless a catalogue ever crops up showing one though. One thing I can say for definite though is that it's a stout piece.

Quite feasibly it would have been subbed out to MacFarlane's Saracen Foundry up the road, at least for the raw castings.

The Leinen/Boley/Schlegel/Gressel back-to-front thing from the beginning of the thread interests me: a look at ebay.de reveals this for 90 euro but also this for 265. Even if the cheap one is a copy 90 euro isn't a lot, I'm almost tempted to take a punt.

 

[tinman123]

I bought my father a Gransfors Bruks Small Forest Axe for fathers day a few years ago.
He used to be in the fire brigade and would have carried his own on many call outs.
He was quite touched with receiving it.

when you mention a good axe it reminded me of this video i seen a while ago.
indeed it id be hard to find fault with any of their videos and they are well worth the watch, old school at its best, great to see lads with hands on them like that.

 

[tinman123]

about 5 or 6 years ago i was at an auction, college stuff.
there was a lot of stuff sold out of all departments but in the plumbing one there was a record vice sold with a bench, i didnt see the lot before it came up and the 10 odd other similar lots had 5" records on them and i have enough vices here as it is, they were all making good money so there was no bargains at that time anyways.

well, apart from one,
it was from the best of my memory an 8" odd wide reckord vice but it also had pipe clamping jaws molded into the area below the jaws, iirc it looked like it could take 4" or more of a pipe.
ive kicked myself many's a time for missing it as it went for £80 + fees but it was a steal at that.

what im wondering is if any aficionado could put a model number on it, so as i can lament a bit more on my loss...

 

[CwazyWabbit]

Tinman123, have a look at the link in my signature and you will find the vice sections of 3 Record catalogues available for download. There in lies the answer to your quest

That said I don't recall and 8 incher with pipe jaws moulded in, there is certainly a 6 incher with removable pipe jaws that look more like an American style vice. It is massive though so could easily be mistaken for a larger vice. A Record 634 would be my guess. Screwdriver posted a picture of his in this thread http://www.mig-welding.co.uk/forum/threads/show-us-your-bench-vice-s.52872/page-46#post-733957

 

[tinman123]

ill look at your link cwazywabbit to see but i looked at the 634 and im fairly sure it wasnt one like that, it didnt look as tall as that one.
there is a possibility that it wasnt a reckord, but im 90% sure it was and im as sure the jaws were cast into it, they were as blue as the rest of it with 2 on one side and one on the other with teeth in them, but they could of been as you say, inserted into it.
i have a 6" reckord here but iirc the one im on about could of ate this 6" one it was that big.
i could be right enough on the rest bar it mightnt actually of been a reckord, but it had all the hallmarks of one.

its long gone but as i say, now and again id remember how stupid i was to miss it.

 

[CwazyWabbit]

Just for a comparison a Record No 6 which is a 6 inch vice weighed around 70 lbs and a Record 634 again is a 6 inch vice weighed 170lbs.... so it could eat one for breakfast

 

[CwazyWabbit]

Also on the link are a number of Buck and Hickman catalogues and a Herbert catalogue .... there will be a selection of different makes of vices in those if you fancy a browse to see if any jump out at you.

 

[tinman123]

ill have a peruse some night to see dose anything look familiar.

 

[winchman]

View media item 9065Whilst clearing the garage I found a few vices, so what should I ask for this its a record 84 quick release fully working look wore than it is. So how much and should I sell as is or paint it?

 

[ronan]

Give it a wipe with an oily rag at least, it'll make it look a bit better.

 

[winchman]

Give it a wipe with an oily rag at least, it'll make it look a bit better.

I didn't oil it in case I paint it

 

[ronan]

I didn't oil it in case I paint it

painting sounds like work though

 

[arther dailey]

I always found selling as is gets better monies, a lot of people like doing things up and if its already painted as a buyer you dont know what that "maybe" covering up, so light clean is all I would recomend. and good luck .Arther

 

[winchman]

I always found selling as is gets better monies, a lot of people like doing things up and if its already painted as a buyer you dont know what that "maybe" covering up, so light clean is all I would recomend. and good luck .Arther

Thanks
Looks like I better clean it then!
What's it worth once clean?

 

[CwazyWabbit]

As much as someone is willing to pay ..... stupid answer I know but they do seem to go for a range of prices, I'd look at the ebay sold listings to get a rough idea. You'll find that if you are willing to post it you will get a higher price but also have the headache of trying to package it so the courier doesn't break it (have seen several vices with broken castings thanks to the courier).

 

[CLD]

My Swindens 4" with swivel base next to a fixed 6" vice