Anyone make a bar shear for shop press

Hey you wouldn’t happen to have a picture of that thing would you? I’m curious as heck!

A few years ago I bought an old Whitney No.38 bench shear from eBay and mounted it to my bench. It’s come in handy lots of times. Sometimes you just don’t want the noise and dust of the grinder!
Here it is. Made somewhere between 1908 and 1938. On closer inspection, it is probably a 1/2" x 2-1/2" capacity. It's been sitting in my barn for more than 25 years. A lot of surface rust but it still moves smoothly.
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Whoa! That is super cool! I've never seen a hand operated machine with that kind of capacity. The Whitney I have will do 3/16" and even that is tough to pull.
 
RJ, we had one similar to that back in school. The shop teacher wanted us to use it to cut angle iron so we wouldn’t ruin the horizontal saw blades. Cut like butter.
 
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