ThanksGreat find and nice job
I have others, you can see the one in the video that I was using. That is my beater.Steve, you did way too nice of a job on it! Now you will need another one you can beat on and pry on... And now I mention the torch... And the angle grinder... Geez, it's worthless!
The before and after pics say it all...
ThanksReally nice restoration, Steve! All your hard work turned it into a work of art and I'm sure your FIL is smiling right now.
ThanksThats a cool find, nice job.
I think it was a few decades. It was stuck solid when I found iit, ended up beating out the movable jaw with a sledge hammer and aluminium, figured out that the keyway and key were burred and stopping it from coming out. I think that is why it sat for so long.Very nice restoration. Loved seeing the before and after pictures. The vise sat under the bench for decades. I love seeing an old tool getting a good second life.
Milled, filed, sanded and polished.Did you machine off the anvil then polish it, I assume it had some dings on it.
Turned out to nice to use, good job.
Wow. a phoenix rising from the ashes
Mark